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Sep 2021
8:06pm, 12 Sep 2021
1,459 posts
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Tizer
I had a pair but sold them when a) I found out they weren’t race legal and b) because when they arrived and I tried them on, I couldn’t get out the living room door 🙂
Ridiculously high and unstable
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Sep 2021
8:55pm, 12 Sep 2021
74,775 posts
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Gobi
But fast
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Sep 2021
9:27pm, 12 Sep 2021
447 posts
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fuzzyduck79
Same guy who borrowed a pair of VF off another elite when his shoes got lost on his flight last year, and won the Mumbai marathon.
He has run over a minute quicker than today's DQ time, so all round not a great ad for the illegal shoes really. But that doesn't mean they aren't quick, it's just one data point and maybe conditions/course were tougher today.
There are a lot of people who think the 40mm stack height is a rule which only applies to elites I've noticed (redditors were salivating over the release of Prime X and most didn't seem to care they couldn't be used for racing)
Would expect a handful of people have worn the Prime X in recent road races everywhere. Some countries might allow them anyway.
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Sep 2021
7:19am, 13 Sep 2021
1,460 posts
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Tizer
Agree. Wouldn't be surprised if they appear in smaller races. Possibly a good training shoe given the clear powers of recovery, or reduction of fatigue anyway, but just too unstable for me, particularly with the way I land.
I raced Stirling 10k yesterday, with Andy Butchart taking an easy win in 29.06. He was in the NB Fuelcell Elite RC. Saw a few folk in the Endorphin Pros, me in the Adios 2 and pretty much the rest of the top 100 runners in Alphafly or Vaporfly. Nike still clearly miles ahead
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Sep 2021
8:12am, 13 Sep 2021
13,434 posts
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ITG 🇮🇸
There's no excuse at thay level for not knowing the rules. It's no better than "forgetting" to tell the drug testers where you're going.
I fear there will be increasing dishonesty at lower levels where there won't be rigorous checks.
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Sep 2021
9:21am, 13 Sep 2021
10,775 posts
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jda
Dishonesty and/or cluelessness, but I won’t lose too much sleep if someone wearing them beats me in a parkrun 
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Sep 2021
9:41am, 13 Sep 2021
3,800 posts
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J2R
Decided on Saturday that a parkrun wasn't a significant enough event for me to wear my main race shoes, the Endorphin Pros, and ran in Shifts instead. Missed out on my target time by a handful of seconds, which the Pros would probably have given me...
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Sep 2021
4:28pm, 13 Sep 2021
248 posts
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AJLB
I've been tempted to do a parkrun in my Tempo Next%s, which are also illegal for races, but so far I'm just to darned law-abiding
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Sep 2021
5:48pm, 13 Sep 2021
3,802 posts
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J2R
Are they illegal for parkruns, though? They're not run under the aegis of UKA, are they?
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Sep 2021
6:18pm, 13 Sep 2021
4,662 posts
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K5 Gus
And the top 3 are.....
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