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Runners World are reporting: The World's Best Shoe
Runner's World Crowns Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 "The World's Best Shoe!"
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New York, NY (November 2, 2007): The global editors of Runner's World magazine, the worldwide authority on running information, awarded their third annual International Editor's Choice Award for the 2007 "Shoe of the Year" to Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 during a special awards celebration Friday night at Remi in New York City.
The award was presented following the conclusion of the Runner's World International Shoe Summit, the annual three-day conference featuring the editors of all 10 editions of Runner's World and eleven of the world's leading running shoe manufacturers, who presented their upcoming 2008 product lines.
"Runner's World International Shoe Summit and Editor's Choice Award are a one-of-a-kind opportunity for shoe manufacturers to reach the global running community via a trusted source," said David Willey, editor-in-chief of Runner's World. "Runner's World congratulates Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 for a great update on an already quality shoe."
This year's International Editor's Choice recipient jumped out at editors from the start of the nomination process. The more segmented midsole coupled with added gel in the heel gives this shoe a super-cushioned, yet still stable ride. A Runner's World online survey among the 10 editions proved that readers agreed; the shoe was the top vote-winner.
The Runner's World International Editor's Choice Award for "Shoe of the Year" is presented annually in collaboration with the International Shoe Summit, part of Runner's World's global initiative to find, test and designate the best shoes in the world for its readers in the eleven countries where it currently publishes: Australia/ New Zealand, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands/ Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2005, the Asics 2120 won the inaugural Runner's World International "Shoe of the Year" and in 2006 the Nike Air Pegasus 2006 won.
Also winning awards were New Balance, which was the choice among the international editors panel for International Best Update of 2007, as well as Saucony, which captured International Best Innovation award for their development and use of new shoe technologies.
Introduced for this first time, the International Best Update of 2007 is awarded to the shoe which has had standout improvement and revision. Tests for this year's winner, New Balance 1223, showed that the shoe is lighter and more flexible than its predecessor, but still offers plenty of support, even for bigger runners. ....
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Runner's World Crowns Asics Gel-Nimbus 9 "The World's Best Shoe!"
This is exactly the kind of communication I hate "World's Best Shoe", then people come trying to buy this shoe because "Runner's World says it's the best", regardless their running needs.
I must say I did learn a lot with this magazine (actually most of my English is due to try to understand the shoe reviews), it is my opinion that since Tom Brunick stop doing the reviews their are more commercial than informative.
Just saw Paula Radcliff win the New York marathon and she wasn't wearing the best running shoes in the world, making her feat absolutely amazing.
I though any number of cheap shoes would also be in with a shout – researchers! I am afraid we are over exposed with editors choice, gold awards, reader favourite so on and so forth – advertising buck.
The Ascis Gel Nimbus is undoubtedly a class act, its construction design and materials etc and in the right feet it would be hard to better, but to call it the ''Worlds Best Shoe' is a nonsense. There are some great minds on this site who couldn’t even agree (totally that is) what ‘support' means so Runners World deciding on one shoe over another is a miracle! – Or do they mean ‘Runners World Best (advertising income) Shoe. Cynical yes - but the I was isolated and marginilsed at an early age.
RW went away from the shoe of the year concept that they promoted in the 80's, now they are going back to it ...
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Craig Payne
Department of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry
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Too often do i see patients with a 4E pronated foot posture crammed into a shoe like the nimbus. Why?....All because they read a magazine claiming it is the shoe of the year.
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