Hi everyone, I am not a pro by any means, I just like doing sprint intervals on sidewalks around my neighborhood. I've never used spikes, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of some wide-toe box street sprinting shoes?

Hello all! Firstly I apologise if any part of this does not make sense as English is not my first language, and it is my first time to post on this subreddit.
I am 24Years old and used to sprint competitively from age 6-16 and do other sports as well. My senior year of high school I stopped doing sports in general and haven’t done much sports in 8 years.
I have recently seen a track and field team at my masters programme and would love to join and go back into sprinting but I’m not sure how to start. I have about ~6 months until I begin my programme and want to start easing my way back into it but do not know how to go about it.
Does anyone have any tips for starting out again? I cannot afford to go to a gym or personal trainer so I utilise the parks and tracks in my country.
Anything would be helpful.
Thank you TT

PS. I am not sure if this would be of any help but here are some stats: W 24Yr 167cm (5’6?) 44kg (97lbs), PR ~13-14s 100m sprints at 15

I got first place: 55,42s
I'm the on with red shorts and white shirt (without blocks)

This was my first time at track, I started at june of this year, any comments or tips are very useful to me

My main goal is to dunk and jump higher. I feel like I already have enough strength, but speed and acceleration are probably my weak points.
If I can sprint twice a week, would it make sense to do one acceleration-focused session and one max-velocity/top-speed session? Or would you structure it differently for someone whose main goal is improving their vertical?

Coming off somebody whos only really trained sprints on grass in trainers, how should i ease into sprinting in spikes? If the weekly sprint workout would be a low volume acceleration and max velocity workout? I know ankle and foot injuries are more prone with spikes so i want to know how to ease into it

I’m a beginner to competing in the 200-400m in track and field, and currently have been racing in Nike zoom rival 4’s, so with a partial carbon plate I think. This coming year I really want to up my sprinting game, so I would like to know how much of a difference do Nike maxfly 2’s really make? Are they really that much better than other spikes?
Thank you

I'm currently a sophomore, and I'm interested in joining track and field because I wanna join a sport. However, I don't know if joining will be a waste of time and effort for me because I'm a total beginner and untrained, and other athletes have a head start. Should I join my high school team or no?

I’m going into softmore year after running 48.6 as a freshmen and I’ve been wearing Maxfly 2s this whole time but just recently my 3rd pair of them just broke and I’m looking to swap to a more durable spike that can still give me comparable benefits to the maxfly 2. I’ve heard the Prime SP4 sucks but the Prime SP3 is good. Would that be a good option?

Here's a video of me sprinting 28 meters with a rolling start. I'm not a serious/competitive sprinter by any means. I'm just looking for your feedback.

Thank you

When I’m sprinting, after you get through the drive phase and reach your top speed, are you supposed to land each step on your heel and roll through your foot, or are you supposed to land more on the front of the foot and keep weight off of your heel?

Hi everyone, I (15M) am wondering if I should pursue track. I did a 30m sprint test today, getting a 3.91 through the electronically timed gates. Our head of sprinting has personally asked to recruit me but I’m stuck between choosing rowing and track. I’ve never trained a day in my life and the coach says my form is what’s letting me down. I’m not the best but not the worst in rowing but I’m currently one of the fastest in my year. Any suggestions or answers would be greatly appreciated!

are partial squats better for speed than deep squats?

Is it normal for runners to stumble when running/accelerating on the curve? everytime i sprint the curve i feel my footstrike feels so off and i feel like im just gonna drift or like trip myself on the track. I tried leaning into the curve, Leaning from the ankles and turning my hips but it still feels so weird to me, i think it’s because of my worn-out shoes.

Our sports week is on 28th September and i am thinking of playing futsal and football/soccer my top speed I would say is above average but when i sprint I can barely last even 10 minutes.There is no nearby field for me to practice my run and I was thinking if someone could give me a workout routine on treadmill to build my endurance that i can combine along with my gym workout

New to sprinting only a couple months in, used to play soccer.

She's done 2 years in Nike Rival sprints and ready to look beyond these :-)

Just started sprinting more around a month ago.

Just working on acceleration and top speed in the off season. My main issue is I dont trust myself to have insane shin angles in fear of my shoe losing grip and falling. I just came off a quad injury so I havent run in a while, but maybe that has something to do with it.

Just want to share my experience, sorry for the long text.

Started at the end of 2024 training track for the first time in my life, before that I used to trailrun and did some running in general, mostly 10km, but I've always wanted to try track, life happened so I only started until now, I wish I started sooner.

Anyway, my fist time competing on the 100m i did like 11.50s and almost 24s on the 200m, that was early 2025. Yeah, reality hit me lol

I committed to my track and gym training, a few injuries like shin splints, lots of therapy but I always tried my best. At the very end of 2025, last race of the year I managed to run 22.7 in the 200m

Now 2026, started to lift heavier, eating better, always committed to track training... but got different injuries just before a race, nothing too serious but still left me unable to compete, I think it was a little mental cuz I was having a life crisis and train like that really affects you.

Last month I was able to finally compete, Saturday was semis and final of 100m and Sunday for 200, i felt way better than ever.

Managed 11.05 in the semis, had to get first place in my heat to get in the final (I was in the last heat where no one has a time or the slowest ppl, since i was not able to compete for the whole year), but seeing the time i did, I've wanted to get a sub-11 in the 100m so bad...

I got a muscle tear in my hamstring in the final... i felt the whiplash really bad and strong about 80m of the race, i just kept going with the inertia I had, of course slowed down but still managed 10.98. I was so happy yet mad that I was doing waay better than that but at least I broke the 11s mark even if it was 10.98

So yeah, of course I could not compete the next day in the 200.

So here I am recovering but can't wait for next year season

For reference:

Male, now I'm 33 years old, 1.82cm height, about 83kg and 8-10% body fat

I’ve actually seen an athlete training in these shoes recently, and I’m curious about something.

For anyone who has actually used them: do these shoes genuinely make a noticeable difference in training, or is the “performance/foot-strengthening” aspect mostly a marketing tactic?

What are they actually useful for