49: New Balance Nation with Ben Hazelwood

About this episode

The episode features an interview with New Balance Research Engineer Ben Hazelwood discussing shoe testing and evaluation.

In this week's episode we sit down with New Balance Research Engineer, Ben Hazelwood, to discuss what goes into testing and evaluating some of the best shoes on the market. We reference a few different studies in this conversation and we've linked them here: Papers on modeling marathon performances by Michael Joyner: https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1991.70.2.683 https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/a-2539-1381 Paper about foot strike and response to super shoes: https://www.ovid.com/jnls/acsm-msse/abstract/10.1249/mss.0000000000003411~the-influence-of-super-shoes-and-foot-strike-pattern-on An abstract from Ben's master’s: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19424280.2025.2489682#d1e145 Getting Technical with Russell Wells Carbon Plated and Elated: The Super Shoe Revolution The "Truth" about racing with Sam Truax ------------------------------ ⭐️ Did you like this episode? Remember to leave us 5 stars! Check out more of our shoe specials here: ⁠Getting Technical with Russell Wells⁠ ⁠Carbon Plated and Elated: The Super Shoe Revolution⁠ ⁠The "Truth" about racing with Sam Truax⁠ ——————————————— Thanks…

People in this episode

Host: The Zone 2 Podcast

Guest: Ben Hazelwood

Topics covered

• shoe testing
• running shoes
• super shoes
• marathon performance
• foot strike

Keywords

• New Balance
• running shoes
• shoe testing
• super shoes
• marathon performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New Balance

Books & works: Papers on modeling marathon performances by Michael Joyner, Paper about foot strike and response to super shoes, An abstract from Ben's master’s

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