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The ASICS SONICBLAST had a reputation problem from day one. When it arrived in September 2025 alongside the MEGABLAST, the running world was genuinely confused about what it was for. A plated super trainer at 45mm of stack, stiff through the midfoot, narrow in the toe box and heavier than most competitors at its price … Read more

The lightest racing shoe on the planet just changed hands. Adidas has held that benchmark with the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 — a shoe that rewrote what a carbon racer could weigh. Mizuno just showed up in Berlin and took the number. The Mizuno Hyperwarp 96 weighs 96 grams in a men’s 27cm (approximately … Read more

Delhi’s biggest running event just named its most counterintuitive ambassador yet. A woman who races 400 metres in under 49 seconds — less than a single lap of a track — is now the public face of a 21-kilometre road race through the streets of the capital. And it makes complete sense. Procam International announced … Read more

For most of the last decade, the running shoe conversation has been about one thing: going faster. Carbon fibre plates, propulsive foams, aggressive rocker geometries. Every major brand was in an arms race to shave seconds off your 10K. ASICS just stepped off the racetrack entirely. Their newest shoe is called the GEL-SLOWCUSH. And that … Read more

One second. That’s the entire margin between Agnes Ngetich and a half marathon world record that had survived six years, two Olympic cycles and a field of the best women distance runners on the planet. She took it on Saturday in Copenhagen, and the manner of it tells you everything about what kind of athlete … Read more

Nike Alphafly 4: At a Glance Price: $270 USD Limited drop: September 17, 2026 on nike.com Wide release: October 29, 2026 on nike.com and select retail Energy return: 10% more than Alphafly 3 Weight: 5% lighter (men’s size US 8.5) New foam: ZoomX LT, 17% lighter than standard ZoomX, 8% more energy return Upper: Atomknit, … Read more

AI generated illustrative image created for editorial use in the FatMarathoner Kiprun running shoes article. It is not an actual photograph of a Kiprun product. Nobody outside the specialist running world had heard of Kiprun six months ago. Then New Balance filed a federal lawsuit in Boston on Tuesday and turned Decathlon’s fledgling running brand … Read more