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The mounting attention is great—hopefully shoe manufacturers will continue to go light and more and more heelstrikers will reform their kneebusting ways. But this is also an example of how old news can quickly be recycled in these Chronograph watches aggregated days. Our Lab Rat, Nick Heil, tried out some of the lightest new kicks, including the amphibiouslooking Vibram Five Fingers, for a column last summer. But the guy whos owned this story from the get go is Christopher McDougall. His excellent book Born To Run:

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, published in May, 2008, clearly spells out how savvy marketing foisted heavy cushioning—and, potentially, heavy injuries—on the running public. replica omega Omega Speedmaster Racing McDougalls primary source: Lieberman, the Harvard professor. Shameless plug: my review of McDougalls book is here.)Its also interesting that this story is gaining traction while writers take the NFL to task for allowing its players to bludgeon one another.

In Malcom Gladwells article Offensive Play, published last fall in the New Yorker, the author points out that the better helmets have become ... the more Chronometer watches athletes have been inclined to play recklessly. Of course, the injuries you incur while running in cushioned shoes are less debilitating than those caused by a helmettohelmet hit, but its worth pointing out the role better technology may play in each. The illusion of safety can be a dangerous thing. —ABE STREEPabestreep