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Summary>>>>adidas adizero Hagio HeelI Adidas ZX 700 Homme France must admit to being a bit smitten with the adidas Hagio. It¡¯s lightweight, brightly colored, and plenty roomy for a road racing flat. I¡¯ve found myself choosing to lace it up frequently on my recent runs, and it has more than earned a spot in my regular rotation. I don¡¯t intend to banish it from my closet door shoe rack anytime soon (that¡¯s the limbo where my old shoes that I¡¯m not prepared to give away get put to rest¡­).

How the heck does this anecdote about Kenyan runners and their shoes relate to a review of the adidas Adios? Well, I¡¯m now about 1.5 years into my own transition to barefoot-style running form, and at this point I¡¯ve come to find that I can run in just about anything and retain this style. I may heel strike a bit from time to time, more-so with some shoes than others, but my cadence stays high and I don¡¯t tend to overstride regardless of the shoes on my feet. I can¡¯t even force myself to do the heel mashing, 45 degree angle between the sole and ground that is so common in recreational runners wearing big shoes. Running in zero drop shoes now rarely causes me calf soreness. My new form seems to be ingrained, and it now just Adidas ZX 750 Homme Vente feels normal. The wear pattern on the Adios seems to support this ¨C there is zero wear on the most posterolateral heel (see photo below), and the wear along the lateral edge extends from the anterior heel to the posterior forefoot. This suggests to me a midfoot strike to a mild heel strike in the Adios. Nothing like the days when I was running in heavy stability shoes with a 12mm lift ¨C I used to trash the heels of shoes like that.

As for myself, I actually didn¡¯t enjoy running in the Energy Boost very much because there was too much heel for my taste, and it has a very pronounced heel flare ¨C the sole extends well out from the margins of your heel on all sides. The upper is also too snug for my feet. Personally, I¡¯d opt for a shoe like the adidas Hagio over the Boost for races of half marathon distance or less ¨C lighter, firmer, and stiffer is my preference for speed. But over 26.2 miles I could see some value in a softer sole, and a 4-6mm drop Boost shoe might be something that would pique my interest a bit more as a distance shoe. Boost looks top be permeating the adidas line, so looks like we¡¯ll have more to try out in the coming months!

I was very skeptical of this marketing approach since there was no physiological data available from actual runners to back up the claims based on mechanical testing. That data now appears to exist. In the June 2013 issue of Footwear Science is an abstract of a study titled ¡°Running shoe cushioning properties can influence oxygen consumption.¡± The study was carried out by a team from the University of Calgary headed by Jay Worobets.

Adidas Adios 2 SideAdidas Adios 2 Medial---Adidas Adios 2 Sole---I opened this review with a quote from the soon-to-be-released book Running With the Kenyans by Anharanand Finn. I¡¯m only about 100 pages into the book (it¡¯s fantastic so far ¨C you can pre-order it from Amazon if yo Adidas ZX 850 Homme Pas Cher u are interested), and he writes a bit about running form and footwear (Finn made a transition to barefoot-style form just prior to moving to Iten, Kenya for six months with his family). One of the things that surprised him is that despite stories of Kenyans running barefoot, most of the high level adult runners train in big, cushy footwear. Yet, he observes, they retain barefoot-style form (presumably learned through significant barefoot running in childhood).

Adidas XT5 Sole => XT 5 outsole; great overall design with low profile but effective lugs make s it pretty versatile, even handling some more mountain oriented terrain.