The AP4 is very soft. This is a big difference from the AP3 and AP2, which were quite firm. Different attributes of super shoes can make them unstable for some people, and instability can lead to strain and injury.
The point is that all super shoes are not the same. You may have weak ankles, or weak tendons, or something else, and the softness of the AP4 might not work for you. Would a firmer super shoe work for you? Maybe, maybe not.
But you do not need super shoes to run a marathon. The Endorphin Speed is a lighter, faster, and all around better shoe than the flats people used to race marathons in before the widespread adoption of the Vaporfly and others. I’ve raced in those flats! ES and similar are a great choice for a marathon.
Wear the shoe that works for you.
FWIW, I find the ASICS Metaspeed Sky/Edge Paris (not Tokyo) and the Saucony Endorphin Pro 4 to be much easier super shoes to wear—the EP4 is probably the more stable of the two.
I am buying shoes for years from Running warehouse since they offer great discounts for models from previous years.
I have tried out pretty much any brand under the sun but after running in Addidas Adizero, I have been using them now exclusively for 3-4 years.
Currently I am breaking in the Lightatrike 2.0 for my Ironman race in 20-ish days
My first taste of unstable supershoes was with the Adidas Adios Pro 2. I felt like a baby giraffe, wobbling all over the place. Years later, I can now run in that same model of shoes (and similar shoes) without much issue. Through repetition and practice I became better at landing more precisely with my stride.
But even after these improvements, there are moments where certain shoes feel unstable. My most stable "supershoes" are the Saucony Endorphin Pro 3 and Endorphin Elite 1 models. There is virtually no wobble in these for me.
So you can practice until you become better at managing your footstrike or you can try out a typically more stable model of shoes.
Adizro Evo Pro 2, and I'll stick with em if I can find another pair before IM California! I put any 5k into em as a test. All I needed to know for fast they were.
Adidas makes similar fitting lower end models I train in sometimes to get a feel for the ride.
Boston's all the way. Since I bought my 10's in 2022, my weight has fluctuated between 105-120kg. I used them for all runs: admittedly, they were a bit firm for easy/recovery runs, but for sessions they were great (I rank the 3x5k session I did in them the best run I've ever done). I retired them earlier this year, but they'd done nearly 900km - not bad considering my weight and the fact they were £90. The only reason I didn't buy the 13's is because I'm using my old Adizero Pro 2's for sessions now (paired with Triumph 23's for easy runs) before I buy a new pair of racers at the end of the year.
I disagree and will use super shoes for any long distance at any pace. A sub 4 marathon pace shouldn’t be seen as a slow pace but it is considered slow on social media, in real life it isn’t. What I like about using super shoes at a slow pace is they help keep my posture in place and I can really get myself into a good groovy pace that’s easy to maintain for 5+hours. For me it’s all about the rocker, a good rocker and the shoe will do all the hard work for you. I found a relatively new pair of adios pro 2 for $100 on market place and they’ve been my go to long distance training shoes. Maybe try to find something cheap on marketplace and see if carbon plated shoes are right for you. In my experience it’s not true that they don’t preform well at lower paces, it’s a matter of locking into your targeted pace perfectly and next day recovery is very minimal compared to a soft, plushy super max show.
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Marathon workhorse, but loud and clunky at slow paces.
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