The Brooks Adrenaline is a proper motion control shoe for over pronators isn’t it? Wouldn’t that be entirely the wrong type of shoe for him?
Ya, the Adrenaline is a serious heavy motion control shoe. I’m not a barefoot/minimalist proponent, but I’d think he’d want a more neutral shoe and then run trails and stay off the road or track until he has to for indoors. For road shoes, I got my wife some New Balance Beacon and they are her favorite shoe ever and she’s had none of the niggles she had with other shoes.
Trail running is my answer to everything. I had terrible shin splints as a D1 jumper doing bounding drills on the track in spikes, but no problems at all as a fat trail runner for the past 30 years. My son was a D1 All-American in the decathlon and battled foot problems in college and then when he tried to come back. I tried to get him to do trail running, which again is my solution for everything, but he never did.