#254 Buy or Sell? Doping Should Lead to Lifetime Ban? Shoes Need to Be Lower Stacked? 2024 Was a BETTER Shoe Year?

Time for another round of Buy or Sell, where we force ourselves outside of our "it depends" comfort zone and make things black & white. David, Matt, and Nathan get together for hot takes only. They argue about performance enhancing drugs, max, stack shoes, the state of Nike, and much more. We want to hear your hot takes too! Leave a comment or email us at [e-mail].

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Chapters

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:29 - In For Testing, Powered by Skratch Labs
• 12:28 - Buy/Sell: Runners who have used PEDs should get lifetime bans
• 28:09 - The market needs to lower the average stack height of shoes
• 35:42 - 2024 was a better shoe year than 2025
• 43:06 - People are not running slow enough
• 54:26 - Nike has lost its edge in running innovation
• 59:00 - The 800m is harder than the mile
• 1:03:04 - Wrap-up