Carbon Fiber Plated Shoes

Let’s be honest: the first time you see a pair of carbon plate shoes on a store shelf, they look less like footwear and more like something NASA rejected for being too aggressive. That curved sole, that stiff spine running through the middle — it’s intimidating, and if you’re new to running, you’ve probably wondered … Read more

Somewhere around mile 20 of your last marathon, your calves started sending you strongly worded complaints. That’s the exact moment carbon plate running shoes were invented to solve. A carbon plate running shoe is a performance shoe built around a rigid carbon-fiber (or carbon-composite) plate embedded in a thick slab of energy-returning foam, designed to … Read more