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super shoe en · NOUN

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1. A premium shoe that is extremely efficient for running.
   • Buy shoes of each tier, and alternate them accordingly: easy runs in the traditional trainer, workouts in the supertrainer, races in the supershoe. 2022 September 14, Alex Cyr, “The best running shoes to buy on a budget”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:
   • 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. 2023 August 3, Ashley Mateo, “I've Worn This Kind of Shoe in 6 Marathons and Gone Faster Each Time”, in The Strategist, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2023:
   • 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. 2023 April 22, Sean Ingle, “Battle of the super shoes: Nike under threat in London Marathon tech race”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2023:

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