super shoe

Definitions

A premium shoe that is extremely efficient for running.

Examples

“Buy⟳ shoes of each tier, and alternate them accordingly: easy runs in the traditional trainer, workouts in the supertrainer, races in the supershoe.”

“The 42-year-old Thompson, who first ran the marathon in 2014, winces at the memories of the pre-supershoe era. "I ran 2 hours 11 minutes and it is still, to this day, the most emotional, painful, horrible, excruciating thing," he says.”

“When the first super shoe — the Nike Vaporfly 4% — was introduced in 2017, it lowered the amount of energy your body needs to sustain a certain pace by an average of 4 percent, a study⟳ published in the journal Sports Medicine determined.”

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