Springs-loaded: test-driving Nike's Vaporfly running shoe

Would the brand’s claim to make plodders into joggers stand up at the Burgess Park parkrun?

“If you hear the sound barrier being broken over Burgess Park,” I said to my flatmate as I left the house, “that will be me.”

I was joking, sort of. Ahead of me, the 5km local parkrun. Beneath me, or at least on my feet, a new pair of Nike Vaporflys – the most talked-about trainers in the world.

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