Amby burfoot runners world shoe review

'That was one of the first shoes that felt like a real road-running shoe,' says Burfoot.

“It had a palpable amount of cushioning or springiness that the others did not have.

Amby Burfoot (former Boston winner, former editor-in-chief of runner's world) wrote about super shoes for the NYT. Nothing very groundbreaking.

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50 Years of (Mostly) Fantastic Footwear Innovation

The First Flats

In the beginning there were racing shoes. And runners saw that the shoes were good—for the few thin, athletic men who ran long distances at the time. Actually, they rather sucked, even for the young fast set.

“Very few running shoes were available, if they could be called that,” says running shoe collector and National Park Service museum curator Dave Kayser, who started running in “They were heavy and stiff, usually with leather or canvas uppers. All the choices were crappy.”

On the nascent road-running circuit of the mid-’60s, the New Balance Trackster had a virtual monopoly, at least in New England, says longtime Runner’s World editor and writer Amby Burfoot. Introduced in , it had a leather upper and rubber ripple-sole, came in widths, and was “ideal for practically any running surface,” claimed ads of the time.

“When you got to a starting line of a road race, everybody was wearing the same shoe,” Burfoot recalls. “It had a palpable amount of cushioning or springiness that the others did not have. The minute that somebody offered us a shoe with a little bit of cushioning from road shock, we all went in that direction, because it felt good.”

By the Boston Marathon, which he won, Burfoot had sw

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50 years of running shoes

The First Flats

In the beginning there were racing shoes. But they were not terribly good. ‘Very few running shoes were available, if they could be called that,’ says running-shoe collector Dave Kayser, who started running in ‘They were heavy and stiff, usually with leather or canvas uppers.’

RW contributor Amby Burfoot, who raced on the nascent road running circuit of the mids, remembers the New Balance Trackster. Introduced in , it had a leather upper and rubber ripplesole, and was ‘ideal for practically any running surface’, claimed the ads. ‘It had a palpable amount of cushioning’ Burfoot recalls. ‘The minute somebody offered us a shoe with a little cushioning from road shock, we went in that direction.’

By the time of the Boston Marathon, which he won, Burfoot had switched to the Onitsuka Tiger Marathon, which many remember fondly for its lightness and comfort. Tiger’s training shoe, the Road Runner, had a built-up heel and foam rubber midsole. ‘That was one of the first shoes that felt like a real road-running shoe,’ says Burfoot.

Burfoot bought his Tigers from Jeff Johnson, the first employee of a new company called Blue Ribbon Sports, founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, which was importing shoes from Japan and selling th