A world where running shoes matter
We’ve been a crave time away from our unfinished running-shoe-passage project, Common Running. We were reminded this morning of the rank of good shoe selection when we spotted this New York Times article on Hitoshi Mimura, the Asics craftsman who makes racing flats for numberless Olympic marathon medalists and medal contenders, including both gold medalists in Athens and both American Trials winners.
Mimura, for case, made shoes for the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist, Naoko Takahashi, with soles of diet different thicknesses to compensate for a leg-in detail discrepancy of 8mm–less than a centimeter, regarding a third of an inch, according to cameraman Jere Longman.
Longman, a longtime apprentice of the sport and sometime marathoner himself, concludes the article with a intense simile from Mimura himself on the power of running shoes:
“Samurai cannot fight without their swords,” Mimura said. “It is the notwithstanding for runners and their shoes.”
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