Awesome Running

Leave other runners in your dust with the message “Distance makes the heart grow fonder,” taunting them from the back of your Distance Long Sleeve shirt as you sprint past. It’s Bandit’s best-selling long-sleeve silhouette, now in NanoMesh Performance knit, an ultra-lightweight, sweat-wicking fabric. A great transitional layer for Spring.

The Boston HiFi sock from Courier salutes the famed Boston Marathon with tags that remind runners of the final two corner turns of the race: Right on Hereford, Left on Boylston. The HiFi is a serious performance sock with a proprietary cushioning system, graduated compression, breathable fabrication, and anatomical fits for left and right feet.

You know the three-legged race game that people play at company picnics to get them to work together? This is like that but at a much higher level. Dating back to the Ming Dynasty, the traditional Chinese sport of board-shoe racing forces cooperation by strapping three athletes’ feet to a pair of wooden boards so they must run in lock-step.

One of the highlights of the collaboration between The North Face and Undercover. The SOUKUU Summit Offtrail TR are laceless trail running shoes. They use a BOA system to adjust the fit, a ripstop and rubber upper, and an integrated gaiter. Drops 10.30.24 for $430 and likely to sell out to folks who will never run a trail in their life.

Proving you must crawl before you walk or run, AI Warehouse tasked a group of five AI agents with completing a 100-meter dash. Each was trained using Deep Reinforcement Learning to reward them for correct behaviors and punish them for incorrect ones. Eventually, they get their boxy butts off the line and wobble their way through the course.

The first running shoes made using On’s revolutionary LightSpray technology. LightSpray involves a robot arm that sprays a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating the need for stitching or glue. The entire shoe is fully assembled in just 3 minutes. Drops Fall/Winter 2024.

Daniel LaBelle is back to sprinting in some more inappropriate footwear. This time, he shows off his impeccable balance and athleticism as he runs down the street wearing ridiculously tall high heels, his 2-year-old’s shoes, ice skates, and skis, among other things. We wouldn’t be surprised if MSCHF starts selling those boxing glove shoes.

The Hierro v8 took the best of New Balance’s running shoes and turned them into all-terrain beaters. The tried-and-tested combo of a lightweight textile upper and the Fresh Foam midsole will keep you comfortable, while the thick and grippy Vibram outsole will help you keep the pace up no matter where you choose to go.

We’ve never seen a light quite like the Kogalla UltRA. This outdoor adventure light connects five bright Cree LEDs on a flexible steel strap. Wrap it around your waist or hang it from your backpack for super-wide-area illumination. The light connects to an external battery pack (not included) via USB, and Kogalla also sells kits with a battery and mounts.

Physical comedy is Daniel LaBelle’s specialty, and in this short video, he shows us how a simple change to an everyday activity can result in hilarity. Watch and enjoy as Daniel attempts to sprint in all the wrong footwear. It’s hard enough to walk in swimfins.

We’ve seen Cassie, the Ostrich-shaped robot strut her stuff before. Now the speedy automaton has set a record for the fastest 100-meter dash ever run by a bipedal robot. With a time of 24.73 seconds, she’s no Usain Bolt, but it’s still an impressive achievement for the engineers from Oregon State University.

Jake Laser wishes he could run as fast as Usain Bolt. But he’s never going to achieve that goal without some mechanical assistance. So he got to work figuring out the best way to increase his running speed through a series of experiments with jets, a windsurfing wing, low-friction shoe soles, and lots of practice.

Now that Stranger Things 4 is complete, we were finally starting to get Running Up That Hill out of our heads. But the Kate Bush earworm is back since we heard this version by KestrelTapes in which he played the track on a 30-pound keyboard while actually running up a hill. As far as we know, no deals were made with God.

From buzzing bees to bullies, there are many times in life we need to run away from things. Daniel LaBelle uses his brand of physical comedy to demonstrate some of the ways in which we approach each kind of getaway differently. That Mountain Dew run is the worst.

Guinness World Records introduces us to Zion Clark, a wrestler, athlete, and inspiration to all. Zion was born without legs due to a rare genetic syndrome, but that hasn’t stopped him from running faster than most people who have legs. Zion’s dream is to become a wrestling champ and medal-winning Olympian.

A while back, we met a funny-looking robot known as Cassie. Developed by the OSU Dynamic Robotics Laboratory and Agility Robotics, the bipedal robot can walk and run ostrich-style. Her human masters have now figured out a way for Cassie to run a 5K on a single charge. The research could lead to improved efficiency for delivery robots.