I FELT THE ADIDAS BOOST…
…and then I felt the blow as English sprinter Desiree Henry tagged me in a game of human Pac-Man – where we, the semi-fit mortals, had to run along lines on the ground without getting caught by the ghosts, a pack of sinewy elite athletes. We were all equipped with the greatest of running shoes, Adidas’s Ultraboost 19s, which look as though tiny marshmallows have been densely packed into the soles for extra bounce. Now why couldn’t the event have focused on real marshmallows?