New WR by over 2 mins? I guess they work then.

The marketing team will have a field day with this !

Perhaps - but at £500 a pop, only good for 1 marathon and a bit of training and practically speaking unavailable I can't imagine many people choosing this over the Adios Pro 3's - which are amazing shoes in themselves. It is an amazing time though - absolutely no denying that.

ETA: Looks like the German winner was wearing them as well coming in under 2 hours and 5 minutes. You have to ask - if Eliud was wearing them would he be sub 2 hours?

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He who understands the WHY, will understand the HOW.

Yep -- couldn't have asked for a better roll-out. I think pure runners will invest in the shoe for their goal race since you're maybe racing just one marathon in the fall & the spring. You're already buying a normal pair of super shoes for $300. What's a PB worth? Another $200?

Dk if we'll see more Adidas in triathlon. We race a lot more & the sport is already super expensive. A lot of us race multiple times at 70.3/140.6 in a season. A normal super shoe can get you through an entire season or close to it. Doesn't seem like they sponsor a lot of triathlon pros. I can think of Lange, not sure who else. Speaking of -- did he wear these shoes in Roth/Nice?

Primex in roth and adizero 3 in nice

Watch Amanal Petros talking about the new shoe.

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Let food be thy medicine...

According to their website, they will be available this Tuesday.

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Athlinks / Strava

How about Kona/Nice? Notwithstanding the other costs (bike every 5ish years for >$5k, another $1k/y for shoes, kit, helmet, tires, etc) a bare bones Kona race is ~$10. Tacking on 5% to potentially go minutes faster seems like an easy decision. Especially for folks with enough expendable income to be doing Kona in the first place.

This weekend the sub 2:30 IM marathon is going down.

I ran my 2:25 pr in a pair of $49 Nike Mariahs….I say just train better:-)

Or not swim and bike before 😂?

That works to a certain level - but it's silly to think your 2:25 wouldn't have been better with better equipment...lol

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DFRU - Detta Family Racing Unit...the kids like it and we all get out and after it...gotta keep the fam involved!

The risk with these shoes and one time use I feel, in T2 easy to rip them apart putting them on fast

Bear in mind that these were never intended for general sale or consumption. They were a leading edge shoe for their own elite athletes and are only available (in incredibly small numbers) so as to comply with World Athletics rules to then allow them to be raced in.

Yeah but being one of the slowest in our training group my buddies would also have been 2 to 6% faster also so the end game didn’t matter:-)

What makes you think the upper is fragile? The life of the shoe is more likely limited by the uncompressed foam.

The shoes were not enough to get a 2.30, Lange only got the 4th spot and finished 4th for the run.

saw photos of the shoe taken apart, to be lighter upper needs to be minimal and it looks paper thin you can see through it

Images are one thing, shoes in hand are another. While it may look paper thin, it's quite stout. It’ll be the last cause for shoe failure.

Looks like he went to the 70.3 T2 and lost a load of time.

They may be better, I don't really like the Alphafly so my answer would probably be yes... yes they're better. I'd have to run in them to tell you but from what reviews I've seen they're pretty solid shoes.

There in lies the problem, most will never get to run in them. Limited availability, 521 pairs of them... total. So they're going to cost you $500, the foam is short lived for its performance, like a training run and then a marathon... and there's only 521 pairs... they look amazing though and probably better than the Alphafly.

https://www.youtube.com/...qhoB0INcY&t=728s

thanks for that i could not work out what happend to him.

he is just showing off

That Mariah full length Nike Air midsole was magical.