Adidas Originals Femme France

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Adidas Adipure Gazelle Adidas Originals France Soldes MedialAdidas Adipure Gazelle Side: My first thought upon putting the Gazelles on my feet was the they were insanely comfortable. The footbed is glued down (but removable with some effort) and lightly cushioned, and feels great under a bare foot. But, where this shoe really shines is the upper. It¡¯s made of the same stretchy, spandexy (is that a word?) material that composes the entire upper of the Adapt, and is extremely comfortable against the foot (feels kinda like a stretchy sock). There are, however, a number of differences between the uppers of the Gazelle and the Adapt. Obviously, the big difference is that the Gazelle has laces and a more traditional ankle cuff. The laces attach to the adidas stripes on each side, and this combination alone makes this look much more like a running shoe than the Adapt ¨C I really like the look of the Gazelles.

Having run in the adidas Energy Boost shoe myself a few times I also wonder if there is a certain thickness of midsole material required to provide any actual benefit. The Energy Boost has about 9-10mm more material under the heel than under the forefoot. As someone who doesn¡¯t load my heels much when I run, the Adidas Originals Pas Cher Boost did not feel all that different to me than a typical EVA shoe. But, if I forced a more pronounced heel strike I could really feel the bounciness that the Boost material provides (you can also feel it when walking in the shoes). My suspicion is that there is simply not enough Boost under the forefoot to provide a meaningful benefit. An Altra Torin or Hoka style Boost shoe would be an interesting thing to try!

The adidas adizero XT 5 was a pleasant surprise for me. I¡¯d not seen much info about it until it just recently popped up on adidas¡¯ website, and after looking it over I decided it was worth a try.

he Adios is adidas¡¯ distance racing flat. It¡¯s a shoe that can be found on the feet of many of the top elite adidas sponsored marathoners, and last year they released a version with a midsole composed of their recently introduced Boost material. I¡¯d heard a lot of positive praise for the shoe from friends, and despite the fact that it had a higher drop than I typically prefer in a speed shoe (10mm), I wound up loving the ride. In fact, along with the New Balance 1400v2 and Newton Energy, the Adios Boost was one of my top 3 road shoes from 2013.

It¡¯s important to keep in mind that the comparison here was between shoes that only differed in their midsole material, everything else was the same. There is no detail about which Boost shoe was used, what the midsole dimensions were, etc. So it¡¯s very difficult to compare economy gained running in a Boost shoe to any other shoe on the market. As an example, previous research has shown that reducing shoe weight by about 3.5 oz (100g) results in an economy improvement of about 1%. So if the shoe used was the 9.3 oz Energy Boost, the n it might not be any more economical than say the 5.7 oz adidas Gazelle. The benefit would be that you get the improved economy with additional cushioning in the Boost.

A few months ago I was independently contacted by two different representatives from Adidas, one a shoe designer and the other a category manager. They offered to ship me out several pairs of shoes, the first of which I¡¯m reviewing here in this post (the others were the Adidas Adios 2 and the ultraminimal Adipure Adapt ¨C disclosure: all three shoe Adidas Originals Femme France s were media samples provided free of charge for review purposes).