Longform journalism / Running on air - MIT

Reported from the Rift Valley of Kenya, the rise of “supershoes” and their impact on the world's most decorated endurance athletes. The story contains input from Olympians, world record holders, top coaches and exercise physiologists, and charts the rise and fall of Kelvin Kiptum, who was on the cusp of running a sub-2 hour marathon, with the aid of supershoe technology, when he was killed in a car crash last February. It was published in the July/August 2024 print issue of MIT Technology Review Magazine and also online, at technologyreview.com, on 25th June 2024.