Altra thinks it has found a better way to build a carbon super shoe, and the big toe is the key

Altra’s Vanish Carbon 3 Finally Looks Like a True Super Shoe—Without Ditching Its Foot-Shaped Fit

The Altra Vanish Carbon 3 adds a 4mm drop, pure PEBA foam midsole, carbon plate, and aggressive rocker while preserving the brand’s foot-shaped fit.

Altra just split the Super Shoe wide open

Before carbon plates and supercritical foam, runners already had an extraordinary piece of performance technology beneath them: the human foot. For the Vanish Carbon 3, Altra treated that anatomy as a central part of the racing system, then built the plate, foam, fit and lockdown around it. Carbon plates have transformed racing shoes by adding stiffness and propulsion, but that can also change… Source

Altra thinks it has found a better way to build a carbon super shoe, and the big toe is the key

Altra has unveiled the Vanish Carbon 3, its fastest running shoe yet, and while the headline specs tick plenty of familiar super-shoe boxes, the thinking behind it is quite different.The new racer combines a 40mm heel stack, supercritical PEBA foam and a carbon plate, but that plate has been split beneath the big toe to allow more natural forefoot movement. It is a very Altra solution to a very modern racing-shoe problem.“We wanted to make a sho…