What happened with running shoes in 2005?
Vibram release the Five Fingers ‘barefoot shoe’.
40% of marathon finishers in the USA are female
The New Balance 1050 has some windlass enhancing design features
The Nike Structure Triax 8 comes out with their WARP – Windlass Activation Resupination Pad
What else happened in 2005?
On January 20, George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the USA.
The Kyoto Protocol officially goes into effect on February 16.
On August 29, Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the USA Gulf Coast, killing over a thousand people and creating an estimated $108 billion in damage.
On April 23, the first ever video is uploaded to YouTube:
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The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse on On April 27.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Robin Warren and Barry Marshall for their work that showed the bacterium Helicobacter pylori played a major role in causing peptic ulcers.
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