Sentence examples for marathon shoes from inspiring English sources

Onitsuka Co., Ltd., a Japanese company that debuted its earliest marathon shoes in 1953 — the Marathon Tabi and the Tiger Mark MARUP, and in 1960, introduced a shoe with built-in air vents in the soles to pump out heat like a bellows to help prevent blisters — became the ASICS Corporation in 1977.

Nike drew upon marathon shoes of ancient Greece for its second-edition gladiators, now with added padding and graphic swoosh.

As Nike continues to move into the next stages of cushioning, we've seen the Zoom X foam on marathon shoes that pairs with carbon fiber plates, all with the purpose of building speed.

The Vaporfly Elite is the sportswear giant's vehicle for crossing that threshold and perhaps even upstaging the Adidas Adizero Sub2, the new marathon shoe from its chief rival.

His race in 1960 is really an amazing one, to win a marathon with no shoes [a barefoot Bikila won the Olympic marathon and broke the world record in Rome in 1960].

Unless you are the sort of person who turns up to a marathon in tennis shoes and cut-off jeans, you have probably got a good idea of the sort of pace you are able to maintain over longer distances.

Otherwise, it's like running a marathon in cement shoes.

7. The Fitness Humblebrag A casual sporty snapshot (running shoes, marathon number, yoga pose) that makes your followers wallow in self-loathing over their own lack of physical fitness.

"We're worried about this increasingly large group of people, taking courses in how to run a marathon, going to shoe shops to learn how to run," Dr. Martin said.

He wears modern clothing only when jogging, "though I do have this fantasy of running the marathon in leather-soled shoes and wool knickers," he said, laughing.

(A play on nanotechnology and grandmas – get it?) It was Mr. Carle who alerted GTX Corporation, already developing location-tracking shoes for marathon runners and children, that it was missing a key market.