ADIDAS $500 RACE SHOE

The problem is, people will pay for it. This is just a litmus test in my opinion. The amount of gained advantage with this shoe isn’t going to be that big. This to me is a shoe for the elite of the elite. Cool look, but stupid money and will just drive prices up on other models.

More than $1.8 dollars per gram, but still expensive!

A 5 gram shoe? What's it made of? Or have you had a math fail?

per ounce**

Running is going down the same route as cycling. At any club ride, you will see chubby dentists and middle aged financial advisors pedaling $12K+pro level bikes because they can afford them and they look pretty rad rolling along at 18 MPH on a Saturday morning. w

Your local road dawgs won't be rocking this shoe to break 15 at a local 5K. It will be some monied masters athlete looking to break 22 minutes and make the 50-54 podium.

No carbon plate. Is this just a beefed up Reebok Floatride Run Fast Pro?

I have been saying not too long ago , shoes are gonna cross the 1000£ mark soon enough.. As long as it doesn't give an advantage too big the sport of running is still safe. Or else it's gonna be sport for the rich people...

Imagine this scenario in the future 20 years from now whereby rich hobby joggers would wear a 12000£ racing shoe and outrun any sub elite African runners because the shoe would make them 18% faster , but people would still deny and say it doesn't make you faster , just 18% efficient ..oh well

Assefa said it’s great. Obviously she’s biased but we’ll see if the elites wear it or another model.

You just gonna look 18% stupider when I beat you

It is? They look like therapeutic platform shoes.

Just the next step in idiocracy in running. All they have to do is pay one elite to wear them, and lots of hobby joggers will line up to hand over a half a grand for them. As the saying goes, no one ever went broke by overestimating the stupidity of the public.

Not durable.. says they are for one Marathon, plus warmup/tester run. That's about 50km or 10 bucks a Kilometre

40% lighter than a VF3. Wow.

I’m already paying $230 to register for Boston, $100 for the race jacket that I already have six of, $500 for airplane flight and $500/night for a hotel, what’s another $500 for shoes that will help me be top 100 in the 50-55 age group.

can you buy me one pair? :D

Okay sonny, you got me. You win.

Look, I worked darn hard for over three decades to get where I am in life. Lots of Sundays, overtime, and ALL the holidays. There was a great deal of deferred/denied gratification in those years to be able to retire 'early'.

I still ran and raced throughout that entire period, but now that I retired and am in my sunset years, I have realized I can't take 'it with me'. We do our part to be responsible decent and charitable senior citizens, but if I want to go out and spend whatever I want to spend on a pair of shoe, it should be none of your business or concern. Period-Full Stop.

I train hard for an old guy; 50mpw with decent speed works 2-3X a week and race on regular basis. So if my <21:00 5ks (which age grades to low to mid 15:00s btw) in whatever top of the line shoes I chose to wear bothers you, that is your problem, not mine.

Lastly in my neck of the woods, a 22:00 5k isn't making any age category podium until you are at least 70).

Old man advice: Set your priorities, work hard, and run hard, but enjoy life. None of us are getting out of this alive.

I was racing bikes in the late-90s and nearly everyone showed up on ten-year-old bikes wearing ratty shorts and T-shirts.

Fast-forward less than ten years and everyone was on a cosplay team riding pro-level bikes with backup bikes worth more than the the entire field of bikes ten years earlier. It's ironic to me now that with road running less "serious" than ever before, that we're willing to buy such expensive shoes.

"Unlike other super shoes on the market, it seems this shoe won’t last you anywhere near as long as competitors. It’s only designed to last one marathon, meaning you’re probably not going to see this shoe in the masses at your next race, but potentially on the podium."

tomsguide.com

Adidas' Adios Adizero Pro Evo 1 super shoe looks fast — but the price will make you wince

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Make them biodegradable out of seaweed or something and then I'll be impressed. Lighter is better though at least because less material.