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Share Here are my top 7 tips for your Track spikes Don’t leave them in your spike bag Dip the spike pins in 10W30 oil before inserting Carry extra pairs with different spike lengths and types Carry a pair of pliers 200m specialists pin placements Differences in spike plates Choosing pins and needles Take them [...]
Share I try to be unbiased and cover a variety of athlete’s and their respective shoe companies. This gives everyone a chance to explain the different types of spikes and technology for their star athletes. Shoe companies are a multi-billion dollar industry. This video was produced prior to the 2010 Brussels Diamond League meet where [...]
Share In all fairness to yesterday’s post with Wallace Spearmon and Saucony, here is Christophe Lemaitre and Asics. This video is from Eurosport, and shows some of the technology they used to make a better spike to produce faster times. As I stressed in several articles about the reducing ground contact theory, your emphasis really [...]
Share It’s really a small world. When I ran track in the mid 80’s, our McGill team competed with Wallace Spearmon Senior. Fast forward 25 years and now we have Wallace Spearmon Junior on the world scene. I am sure his success is partially genetic. Wallace junior had some up and downs starting with his [...]
Share (A lot of SpeedEndurance.com readers are Arsenal FC fans, so I am posting this on their behalf. Enjoy!) The Arsenal home shirt for the 2011-12 season features a new bespoke crest that marks the club’s 125th anniversary year – and looks forward to the club’s next chapter as the most environmentally-friendly kit Nike has [...]
Share The Nike Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III is the seventh generation of Mercurial which continues a legacy of providing players with cutting edge innovation that delivers incredibly lightweight, fast, and responsive performance on the pitch. Informed by insight from some of the world’s fastest players like Cristiano Ronaldo and Alexandre Pato, the Nike design team [...]
Share Building on the classic heritage of Nike Safari print featured in Cristiano Ronaldo’s first signature boot and high-performance innovation that is the hallmark of Mercurial, the CR Mercurial Vapor SuperFly III features a striking tonal black-on-black safari print, inspired by the Nike Air Safari running shoe introduced in 1987 and still coveted today. The [...]
Share adidas brings personal coaching to Android at the Mobile World Congress The adidas miCoach app for Android is being presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week in conjunction with Google. The new miCoach app for Android provides a whole new group of smart phone users with the chance to use this [...]
Share SpeedEndurance.com has partnered directly with adidas to provide the latest track spikes. Below are the top selling spikes for sprinting, running, and the horizontal jumps. 60 to 400 meter Sprint Spikes Adidas Powersprint 2 Track Spikes Zip ahead of the pack with the sleek, stealth adidas Powersprint 2 track and field shoe. This ventilated, [...]
Share Nike and Kobe Bryant today premiered an all-new trailer previewing the upcoming Black Mamba film and confirmed the films launch during the 2011 All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles. The Black Mamba, staring Kobe, Kanye West, Bruce Willis, Danny Trejo, is a Nike Basketball production, directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film brings Kobe’s alter ego, [...]
Share Global football star Cristiano Ronaldo today with Nike launched the CR Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II boot. Inspired by Ronaldo’s lightning speed and effortless style off the pitch, the CR Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II combines high-performance innovation and heritage of the Nike Safari print. Nike originally introduced the print on the Air Safari running shoe [...]
Share ASICS Japan Lite-Ning 3 – Mens – Black/Silver/Onyx ASICS Japan Lite-Ning 3 – Mens – White/Red/Silver The ASICS® Japan Lite-Ning’s (get the joke? Lightning? where’s Bolt?) latest model is out and somehow they skipped version 2 of this model and came out with version 3. The manufacturer specifies this spike is ideal for sprint [...]
Share It wasn’t long ago when Puma signed Usain Bolt back in 2003 as a 17 year old. Puma tried to capitalize on the success after his famous 9.69 and 19.30 in Beijing 2008, but the only “Usain Bolt” merchandise available was his famous signature Bolt Arms lightning bolt pose. Even after Berlin 2009, he [...]
Share BEAVERTON, Ore. – NIKE, Inc. unveiled its supercharged Nike Elite Series football boots providing new levels of performance. Nike’s Mercurial Vapor SuperFly II, CTR360 Maestri, Total90 Laser III and Tiempo Legend III all feature new performance upper to improve on-field visibility and a re-engineered outsole to deliver lightweight performance for every style of player. [...]
Share Nike Zoom Mawler – Mens – White/Gold/Black (Click here for previous reviews on the Nike Zoom Powercat – Superfly R2 and Adidas Powersprint 2 ) First. and foremost, the Nike Mawler is NOT an upgrade to the Monsterfly, which were made famous by Shawn Crawford in 2004. The big difference with the Monsterfly is [...]
Share Nike Zoom Powercat – Mens – White/Obsidian/Red I’ll discuss the Nike Zoom Powercat in this review which is basically an upgrade from the Nike Zoom Superfly R2. I’ll save the Nike “Shawn Crawford” Monsterfly and Nike Mawler for another review. The Zoom Powercat is much lighter than the Superfly R2 with the removal of [...]
Share adidas Powersprint 2 – Mens – Signal Blue/Metallic Silver/Black The Men’s adidas Powersprint 2 will be a popular sprint spike for 2010. If you are familiar with the original adidas Powersprint, this is the next generation up. I still race in my original Black/Red Powersprint models. Just like the Demolisher series in post-2004 Athens, [...]
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How Long do Running Shoes Last?
Share This is part 3 of the series from the Lake Tahoe Triple Marathon & Ultramarathon Part 1. One of the keys in preparation of any long distance runner is the famous question: How Long do Running Shoes Last? How often should you replace them? My answer is a quick one: 400 miles or 650 [...]