Ho Hum wrote:
Can you feel the 10mm drop in the Adidas? That + the aggressive rocker that a lot of these shoes have is what turns me off to them. Although it looks like the Adidas doesn't have a rocker, so that's nice.
Actually, I was surprised to learn it was 10mm - pleasantly surprised, given that I've been having some nagging (to the tune of 12 months) Achilles pain, but also just generally surprised in that it felt more like, if I could guess, 5 or 6mm.
It's an aggressive feeling shoe, but not in the same way that, say the Carbon X (the most aggressive "rocker" I can think of) is. It's a pretty even footstrike, and then firmness at the toe off which propels you. Easier to run slower in that most carbon plated shoes, because you sort of just don't activate that last step, and plenty fast across strides.
Of course, I'll caveat - that was my first run in them! - but I really was not expecting to like them as much as I did.