![]() This allows designers to pile on the cushioning without having the shoe feel like a brick. Like Nike’s ZoomX, the midsole is made with Pebax, which provides an incredible amount of energy return, and is crucially much lighter as well. Saucony is calling their particular version of new, super responsive material PowerRun PB. ![]() But Saucony rightly identified that the special sauce wasn’t just in the springy slat shoved in the midsole, but the material surrounding it. Yes, the Endorphin Pro (as it has been christened) has a carbon plate. He fell from first to 30th, and gained some notoriety for his ballsy attempt.Īfter about a year and a half of development, Saucony are the first past the post to respond to the Swoosh with a truly “4%"esque” rival. Then a precocious 21-year-old, the runner hit a massive wall, with less than a kilometre to go (captured at the :30 mark of this video) as he was leading the race. His 10k road record was his third big victory in the calendar year - he had already taken home the world cross-country title in March, and won the 10,000m world championship in October.Ĭheptegei was hard at work to erase the bad memories of the 2017 world cross-country championship in Kampala, Uganda. ![]() If not for Kipchoge’s timeless 1:59:40 marathon, (and maybe Kenenisa Bekele’s 2:01:41… yawn) Cheptegei would be remembered as the distance star of 2019. The road race caps a monstrous year for Cheptegei, who was a nominee for World Athletics Athlete of the Year (Kipchoge was also nominated so, yeah, he lost). The 23-year-old Ugandan dropped a hot 28:36 in Valencia on Sunday, December 1, besting Leonard Komon’s former record by six seconds.
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