(More on that later.) Runner's World; Trevor Raab Most modern marathon racing shoes have a carbon-fiber plate sandwiched between layers of bouncy foam. An Adidas video of the time showed a metal ...

Brands have used carbon fiber as a material in footwear for decades, but what we now think of as “carbon plate running shoes” came to fruition in 2017 when Nike debuted the Zoom Vaporfly 4% ...