Big day for Adidas

They’ll now run ads about breaking 2.

Adidas web site says of these shoes: "Available Monday, April 27th at 7:00 am"

Think they'll be any takers? LOL.

How does Nike respond to this? Do they go all-in on Berlin this year with a new God-level shoe?

Which shoes were they wearing? Adios Pro Evo 3?

Is it the shoe that costs $500 and has bad durability? Although honestly if it’s 250km you can get 6 marathons out of it, 3 years at 2 marathons / year, not bad if you are chasing gains.

Never mind. Found the answer & it's the Evo 3.

runnersworld.com

These are the shoes Sabastian Sawe wore to run sub-2 at the 2026 London Marathon

Ben Hobson

Adidas only announced the Pro Evo 3 this week and now it's a record breaker

Open link

Interesting. It looks like they are using that classic (Vaporfly shaped) spoon-shaped plate that Nike patented. I wonder if they decided it was just worth paying fees to Nike to use that?

Discussion in 2020 about that patent:

Wow, under 100g. Using the old rule of thumb of saving 2 seconds per mile per ounce of shoe (counting weight of one side, not doubling for left and right), that's 6-7 seconds per mile? just from the weight savings alone over other supershoes before you consider other refinements in foam/plate design since the OG Vaporfly.

Or was it 1 second per ounce? I don't remember.

Im running a marathon a week from today and am tempted to overnight ship them tomorrow morning

Medals at Majors this spring

1. Adidas -> 3 G - 2 S - 3 B
2. Asics -> 1 G - 3 S - 1 B
3. Nike -> 1 G - 0 S - 2 B
4. Under Armor -> 1 G - 0 S - 0 B
5. On -> 0 G - 1 S - 0 B

Answering myself on a different device, the old rule of thumb was 1 second per ounce of shoe. That's rounded up from 0.83 second that I see Jack Daniels cited. Considering only the weight advantage and if energy return was assumed to be otherwise the same, the Vaporfly (190g) is 70ish seconds slower in a marathon, while the Alphafly 3 (218g) is 93ish seconds slower over a marathon. That absolutely made the difference that allowed for the first sub-2s.