The 2024 Boston Marathon is over. For the second straight year in a row, Kenyan running savant and two-time Olympic silver medalist Hellen Obiri won the women’s race, most recently with a finishing time of 2:22:37.
It’s another epic feather in the cap for the legendary runner (and mom) who also won the New York City and Boston Marathon last year, a feat no other female runner had accomplished since 1989.
Though her time this year at Boston wasn’t particularly notable for an elite runner like Obiri, given that she was technically a minute slower than last year, what did stand out were the shoes she ran in. Click over to the third slide in Instagram gallery below to get a closer look.
Unsurprisingly, she wore shoes from Swiss performance brand On, given she’s been a paid ambassador for the company since 2022. But the shoes she wore from On during the 2024 Boston Marathon are unlike anything we’ve seen. They don’t even have laces.
Not much is known right now about them beyond the obvious fact that they are clearly prototypes made specifically for Obiri.
The_Secret_Shoe, an Instagram account known for spotting and revealing yet-to-be-release running shoes, also shared images in the post embedded below, which makes the shoe’s upper appear taller than a typical laceless sneaker, almost like a booty.
