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It’s official: The HOKA Skyward X 2 has made history. It’s the first running shoe to actually subtract stack height in an update, instead of adding a couple millimeters…or 5. Fine, it’s not the first ever, but you’d have a much better chance finding a pull tab in a hay stack than wearing a circumcised updated pair.
After sharing nearly identical bunny logos for over a decade, Tracksmith and rabbit announced a partnership to adopt the same tortoise logo to differentiate themselves from one another.
The companies reportedly agreed to share the logo after reading about the tortoise’s unlikely victory over the hare in Aesop’s fable, deeming the reptile the superior representation of both brands’ “underdog mentality.”
It’s easy to dismiss the Brooks Ghost as an unserious shoe for unserious runners. Or, worse yet, a serious shoe for serious walkers [gulp]. The Ghost is, after all, the most frequently recommended neutral running shoe for beginner runners by running stores. Source: step inside your local running store. And yet, the Ghost 18 deserves to be taken seriously; it’s a surprisingly great shoe.
The Vomero Plus sits in the middle of Nike’s Vomero trio, in terms of price. But just because it’s the middle child doesn’t mean it should be neglected like some underachieving disappointment. In fact, I make the case for why it’s my favorite shoe among the three Vomero offspring.
You would think the Ghost Max would have undergone some notable changes by now. You would be wrong. Because after three years and four editions, what you have in the latest iteration isn’t too far off from the original. It’s got practically the same midsole, weight, and stack height as the OG. That begs the question, what’s new?
Debunking what running scholars have long maintained, a damning new report released Friday by the International Association for the Study of Discomfort finds that the “pain cave” more closely resembles a “pain cavern.”
