The Nike VaporFly 4% was one of the greatest technological developments in marathon running, pushing athletes farther than ever before and smashing records. This caused an evolution of the marathon racing shoe, with other brands coming out with their versions, creating a new category of shoes called super shoes. We will try to analyze as much as we can on what these shoes do for the average runner by asking a long list of questions:
Do they make a difference? Do they make a difference in every race distance? What is the best super shoe? Are there differences in the efficacy of these shoes for different ages or genders? Do well-trained athletes get more or less benefit from these shoes? These shoes are notorious for breaking down quickly. At what point does this fall off based on mileage?
Here are the articles that inspired me:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/upshot/nike-vaporfly-shoe-strava.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/upshot/nike-vaporfly-shoe-strava.html
This is for a school project so if anyone has already scraped this data please do share.
Also, I have tried the API but I believe I can only get my own data.
My idea is to data scrape individual races however my coding skills are quite weak. The code would need to go row by row and click on the results looking at all of the individual stats. I feel like this is possible but I do not know for sure.
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