For most of their existence, super shoes have been sort of fungible. Sure, some have been better than others. But within their primary elements—a thick slab of next-gen midsole foam, a carbon-fiber ...

One week before the 2018 New York City Marathon, Olympian Jared Ward received a package from Saucony, his shoe sponsor. Inside were three early prototypes of what eventually became Saucony’s first ...

Super shoes make almost everyone faster. The combination of the shoes’ next-gen midsole foam, carbon-fiber plate or other stiffening agent, and rockered geometry are known to improve running economy, ...