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Apr 20, 2023 7:20 PM
Saucony Kinvara 13 Men's & Women's Running Shoes (Various Colors)
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The genesis of the Kinvara came during the ill-fated and foolish minimalist fad that held sway with casuals over a decade ago. It all started with a book titled 'Born To Run' which was filled with specious and unsubstantiated claims that *modern* humans evolved to run long distances bare foot. The book sparked a cult-like movement among hippy aligned runners. During the height of the Insanity a lot of unsuspecting casuals and people new to running were drawn to the fad. Companies like Altra and Zero Shoes sprung up overnight. Established brands like Nike and Saucony attempted to capitalize on the nascent trend by introducing 'minimalist' models. The Kinvara was one of them.
As people switched from cushioned shoes to the new flimsy minimalist shoes injuries spiked exponentially. The minimalist footwear caused broken metatarsals and soft tissue injuries. One minimalist company, Vibram, ended up being sued in a Class Action for it's false claims regarding the supposed benefits of using it's zero drop footwear.
This minimalist fad eventually fizzled out around 2013. At no point during its peak of influence did any elite runners give up their cushioned and technologically advanced racing shoes. It was only the naive casual that fell for this Born to Run fraud. In the years since investigatory journalists have traveled to Central America to interview the tribal people that were used as the fraudulent basis for the Born to Run book. The interviews showed that the tribal people were dumbfounded that rich Americans and Westerners were intentionally running in flimsy minimalist footwear. One villager, who had been a key subject in the book, asked "Why would they do that?" when shown photos of Americans running in flimsy zero drop low stack shoes.
After all this the Kinvara lingers on as a sort of relic of this brief period in running history. This particular shoe is only popular with a very small subset of runners who can best be described as Luddites. Saucony has recently begun repositioning the Kinvara as more of max cushioned shoe. With version 14 they added more stack and they are expected to launch a plated version called the Kinvara Max later this year that will have a rockered geometry. Vibram has largely abandoned footwear and now concentrates on designing outsoles for shoe brands. The hippy dude that runs Zero Shoes lives on in obscurity as a fring wack job after being laughed off Shark Tank several years ago.
We're living in a golden age for running shoes. There's all these amazing new super critical EVA foams, TPU blends, Pebax midsoles, and plate technologies that provide today's runners with level of comfort and performance that was unimaginable to runners a decade ago. Anyone interested in running or even just walking should avail themselves of these new innovations and avoid archaic models like the Kinvara 13
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The genesis of the Kinvara came during the ill-fated and foolish minimalist fad that held sway with casuals over a decade ago. It all started with a book titled 'Born To Run' which was filled with specious and unsubstantiated claims that *modern* humans evolved to run long distances bare foot. The book sparked a cult-like movement among hippy aligned runners. During the height of the Insanity a lot of unsuspecting casuals and people new to running were drawn to the fad. Companies like Altra and Zero Shoes sprung up overnight. Established brands like Nike and Saucony attempted to capitalize on the nascent trend by introducing 'minimalist' models. The Kinvara was one of them.
As people switched from cushioned shoes to the new flimsy minimalist shoes injuries spiked exponentially. The minimalist footwear caused broken metatarsals and soft tissue injuries. One minimalist company, Vibram, ended up being sued in a Class Action for it's false claims regarding the supposed benefits of using it's zero drop footwear.
This minimalist fad eventually fizzled out around 2013. At no point during its peak of influence did any elite runners give up their cushioned and technologically advanced racing shoes. It was only the naive casual that fell for this Born to Run fraud. In the years since investigatory journalists have traveled to Central America to interview the tribal people that were used as the fraudulent basis for the Born to Run book. The interviews showed that the tribal people were dumbfounded that rich Americans and Westerners were intentionally running in flimsy minimalist footwear. One villager, who had been a key subject in the book, asked "Why would they do that?" when shown photos of Americans running in flimsy zero drop low stack shoes.
After all this the Kinvara lingers on as a sort of relic of this brief period in running history. This particular shoe is only popular with a very small subset of runners who can best be described as Luddites. Saucony has recently begun repositioning the Kinvara as more of max cushioned shoe. With version 14 they added more stack and they are expected to launch a plated version called the Kinvara Max later this year that will have a rockered geometry. Vibram has largely abandoned footwear and now concentrates on designing outsoles for shoe brands. The hippy dude that runs Zero Shoes lives on in obscurity as a fring wack job after being laughed off Shark Tank several years ago.
We're living in a golden age for running shoes. There's all these amazing new super critical EVA foams, TPU blends, Pebax midsoles, and plate technologies that provide today's runners with level of comfort and performance that was unimaginable to runners a decade ago. Anyone interested in running or even just walking should avail themselves of these new innovations and avoid archaic models like the Kinvara 13
More by the time they get down to this price they've already been picked through. They get a lot of them. Just most of the popular sizes get sold at $70. This is just the clearance because storing them costs them more money.
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I run in Kayanos most of the time and for all longer distances. Kinvara 13s are not for trips to the grocery store and shouldn't be used by anyone that isn't training for speed. My 2 cents...