Run 7% Faster with Airia Running Shoes

Airia is a Swedish company that prides itself in developing the world’s fastest shoe. Airia One Running Shoes are biomechanically optimized running shoe that helps you run faster. Based on company tests, it can improve the speed of the runners by as much as 7%, with an average of 1-2%. regardless of ability or running style.

Decades of Development

Airia is the result of more than two decades of development, over 5,000 test runs, and a persistent will to create a running shoe that unleashes the natural power of the human body. Airia One’s construction is inspired by the wheel, to ensure runners achieve that perfect feeling of flow. The shoe has a unique design featuring an irregular and sharply angled sole and upward-pointing toe. From the tests, heel, mid and forefoot runners alike can benefit from the shoe.

Svante Berggren, Inventor of Airia One

According to Airia, the Airia One “is light and features a biomechanically optimized geometry with an unstable and irregular, sharply angled sole to help you move forward as fast as possible. The angles and functions of the shoe have been analyzed and constructed to maximize responsiveness for every microsecond in every step.

To know how much faster you can run with Airia One, their website has an interactive graphic where you can input your best time for your favorite distance, and it will show you how much you can improve if you wear the Airia One.

It says I can improve my 21K time by more than 1 minute!

Airia One Biomechanical Design

Based on its research Airia One has developed a shoe that has unique features. It looks weird but these are the groundbreaking designs that makes Airia One fast. Among the features are:

– Rounded Heels
– 35 Degree Angled Forefoot
– 6mm drop from heel to inside of midfoot
– 0mm drop from heel to outside of midfoot
– protruding areas at the forefoot

The features of Airia One Running Shoes

These shoes are made for running… ONLY!  The shoe comes with a stern warning! Airia One is for strictly developed for running only and should not be used as a walking shoe.

First Impressions

When I opened the box, it really looks weird. It looks funny since the toes are pointing up. But then, I also laughed when I saw a running shoe with lugs on it and a shoe that shows your five toes. And yet, these shoes were successful shakers in the in with tdustry creating a niche of their own.

Wearing them is a new experience too. My toes did not feel awkward despite having a pointing toebox.  What is very different with the show is the midfoot.  It feels too thick with the 6mm drop on the inside of the midfoot.  It’s a bit off balanced too since the other side of the midfoot has a zero-mm drop.  Thus, it feels like your legs are knock-kneed.

So far the only colorway is white.  It’s a very clean white shoe that makes me think twice of using on mud. But I guess I have to.

Gone Running

I’ll be running with these shoes for a few weeks.  Although I am not sure if I can accurately quantify how much I have gone faster with the shoe. More about Airia One Running shoes review in the next post.

To know more about Airia One shoes, visit the Airia Running website or watch this video.

Keep on running. 😀