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The New York Times strikes again with a story for the ages about the latest, greatest running shoe. This one, I have to have.
But first, NYT. I love it because its editors love a good story about running. Second, it breaks cutting-edge news. Third, it achieves appealing narratives by weaving in significant people. Last, as a former applied-materials guy, I just love reading about the stuff and NYT writes about it, too.
So the good, no, amazing, story about running is On’s Cloudboom Strike LS, arguably the simplest, lightest, most customizable, most advanced running shoe. Available later this year, it features an upper fabricated using a specialty 3D printer to fit to the wearer’s foot. Bonded to the midsole, the total shoe weighs 6 oz.
The cutting edge is that a mere handful of news outlets released the news a mere handful of days before NYT (as determined as of this writing based on online search results).
Narrative is the exclusive conversation it had with 2024 Boston Marathon winner Helen Obiri and her experience with Cloudboom’s first competition prototype.
What you, reader, hate about the New York Times is its subscription barrier. My love for NYT reaches the heights of an annual subscription cost that the first 10 of you (in any given month. You’ll know when you’re the 11th.) can benefit from: Is This the Craziest Sneaker You Have Ever Seen? Otherwise, read CNN’s decent (and briefer) take: Marathon-Winning ‘Spray-On’ Running Shoes Could Shake Up Olympics.
This Is It,* Vaporfly—even if I won’t be able to afford one anytime soon—I have my new dream shoe. Alternately, I might be able create my own CtCloserBoom version with my handy-dandy glue gun. I just doubt I’ll be able to do it without 2nd-degree burns and any degree of durability, but when I do, SRC will be my first audience and a Saturday morning will be my first endurance attempt (for the shoe, of course, not me).
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT *Thanks to Kenny Loggins (as me singing to Vaporfly about Cloudboom Strike LS). ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 7/20/24), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption.
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