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What do you do? "There are many runners who would happily serve as guinea pigs for novel shoe designs, and I count myself as one of them" We have a very sophistcated asics black shoes shoe tester program that basically involves all continents so we do not get any enthnic bias literally thousands of runners. No product ever gets to market without this. If you let me know where you live and how to get shoes to you, I asics cumulus 20 would be more than happy to receive your feedback there is some new stuff coming through that you might find very interesting.

I hope this has answered some of your questions. I hope it has helped some of the other bloggers out there to understand that we are not the great evil, and we put a huge amount of time effort and money into trying to make running a safer sport for everyone. That is my one and only goal. Farnkly. I really never go into any project thinking asics cumulus womens "how many pairs of shoes will this sell" you might not believe that but it really is true sales just  aint my bag regards SimonWhere is your evidence that "it" isn't broken? Show me a study that show running injuries decreasing because of "20 years of progressive development." You can't.

I won't buy Asics shoes because I feel that Asics is maintaining the status quo (e.g., lots of cushioning, pronation control devices) and, in my opinion, maintaining the status quo seems to be directly at odds with the idea of progressive development.Simon- you are very right about a study not being out there. We who coined the term  Zero Drop' (Altra Footwear) feel like more research should be done on this. I totally agree with you that this is nearly impossible though. Like you said: "Many in these blogs have demanded a study proving conventional fotwear reduces injury rates.

Will this group of runners be more or less likely to purchase a pair asics fuzex lyte of Asics running shoes after reading his polarizing comments? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just asking an honest question.I've been running in ASICS GT 2150 since about Jan 1. In that time I've gone from running 30 seconds and then walking, to running 13-15 miles comfortably. To be honest, I bought the 2150s because the sporting goods store had them in a EEEE width, and knowing that my forefoot tends to splay and expand a lot on impact, I always go with a shoe wider than my foot measures. foot measures. (Never one blister for me in the 2150).