Black and gray make for dull photos in the blog, but for better shoes after these shoes have lived their life as running shoes and have been retired to casual shoes. There are some pretty nice fluorescent yellow Pureboost ZG's at Dicks. After I bought them, I notice Adidas has a sales that undercut Dick's -- but too late for me.
The Pureboost ZG is very comfortable as I expected from my previous pairs.
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| Wow! Adidas dropped the three stripes!! |
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| If you look carefully, there are three strips by the toe. |
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| The bottom is not a typical design. Not sure about traction wet slip resistance. |
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| 299 grams; same as my pair in 2014, lighter than last year's. |
These shoes have a thicker outsole 3-4 mm than either previous pair. Hard to tell what it is made from.
There is some soil on the shoe. I have run in them twice. As before, it has the illusion of good traction because of the high energy return.
It is 299 grams -- nearly the same weight at my first pair of Boost in 2014, and about 10% less than my Supernova's in 2015.
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August 2016 Update.
Un-happily I have retired these shoes from running, after one month and perhaps 50 miles.
The problem, which I did not realize earlier, is that these are actually slip-on shoes upon which laces were also added. What does that mean? There is an elastic band across the middle of the shoe -- its gray and you can see it in the photos. Underneath the laces there is no loose tongue which sits underneath the laces. Instead if one tightens the laces, the shoe fabric underneath has to pucker.
As the shoe broke in, it go looser, and my foot slipped forward. Since the shoe is not oversized, by toe touches the front of the toebox. I tried to tighten the laces to keep my foot back, but you can't without puckering the fabric in an uncomfortable way.
Bottom line is this shoe looks like a lace-up, but it is really a slip-on. When the shoe breaks in, it quickly becomes too loose the run in.
Too bad for me.
October Update:
I cut the elastic between the laces, and drilled two new holes for the laces, higher up closer to my ankle. This helps, and now I can run with the shoes.
I find the arch support a little too squishy and I wear an elastic band around my mid-foot to support it.
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August 2016 Update.
Un-happily I have retired these shoes from running, after one month and perhaps 50 miles.
The problem, which I did not realize earlier, is that these are actually slip-on shoes upon which laces were also added. What does that mean? There is an elastic band across the middle of the shoe -- its gray and you can see it in the photos. Underneath the laces there is no loose tongue which sits underneath the laces. Instead if one tightens the laces, the shoe fabric underneath has to pucker.
As the shoe broke in, it go looser, and my foot slipped forward. Since the shoe is not oversized, by toe touches the front of the toebox. I tried to tighten the laces to keep my foot back, but you can't without puckering the fabric in an uncomfortable way.
Bottom line is this shoe looks like a lace-up, but it is really a slip-on. When the shoe breaks in, it quickly becomes too loose the run in.
Too bad for me.
October Update:
I cut the elastic between the laces, and drilled two new holes for the laces, higher up closer to my ankle. This helps, and now I can run with the shoes.
I find the arch support a little too squishy and I wear an elastic band around my mid-foot to support it.
