Anyone have any really good/really bad experiences with Brooks Shoes?
love them. I’ve used the trance, adrenaline, and the TR6 ( I think that’s what they are called…the red and white racing flats). Made for running, and don’t “fall apart”…
I purchased brooks adrenalines earlier this year, I have overpronating feet and found these to be good.
Love my Brooks Adrenaline. Work great for road and trail.
Love my T4’s. Great shoes.
My daughter uses likes the adrenalines.
I used to run in Adrenalines and really dug them, but they always seemed heavy. Now I run in the Axiom and love them! I also like the Burn, but they’re hard to find.
I am a super overpronator and run in the addiction 6. I never have problems with these shoes now.
Brooks rock. I use the Dyad, which is a wide based, neutral shoe for use with my orthotics. They also tend to get lots of miles. And for the price, you get a lot of bang for buck. Not marketing like Nike saves a lot dollars for the consumer. If you watch the O (www.overstock.com), you can get last years models for really cheap.
Been in the T3/T4 for about two years now. I’ll run in those and only those as long as they make them.
I’ve been through 4 pairs of Adrenalines and looking to buy another pair real soon. They work well for me.
~Tucker
Seeing a post like this just kills me inside. It seems like everyone on slowtwitch will tell you that a bike is only as good as the fit, and correctly so. Take a person and put them on a $5000 aero tri bike and let them sit straight up in the air and they might as well be riding a damn hybrid. The point being is that to ask… Hey are whatever shoes good…provides no real help to a person. The Brooks Beast, Adrenaline, Glycerin, and Epiphany are all great and horrible shoes at the same time. If you put an overpronator in the epiphany then they will have issues, just like the beast or adrenaline isn’t built for everyone. My personal advice is find a RUNNING store (not acadeny sports) and have a gait analysis done and be fitted properly. Triathletes will spend loads of money on the cycling leg of the sport and then buy any damn shoe road runner sport says is right for them and ask why they have foot/ankle/shin/knee pain.
I had been happy with the quality of the shoes from Brooks although they didn’t work that well for me.
I still use my “Beasts” from 3 years ago for every day walking shoes. I don’t think they will ever die.
jaretj
Thanks for the post, but Brooks is at the top of their game for shoes, especially the adrenaline, Glycerin and Radius. And yes, people, please go get fit for shoes AND do not go get fit for shoes and then get them online, that would be in poor taste.
Eric
Excellent company dedicated to runners. They don’t change what works in their models form year to year like Nike does. The Adrenaline is probalby the best shoe made for people who need a stability shoe and the new Adrenaline 6 is an ounce lighter than the 5.
Brooks makes shoes in a wide variety of categories. They perform as advertised – their stability shoes are stable, their neutral shoes are neutral, their lightweight shoes are light and flexible. We see very few Brooks shoes come back for quality reasons, and very few people coming in “early” to replace them because they feel worn out.
That said, each shoe works a different way to compliment the mechanics of your footstrike when you run. The only way to know what category of shoe you need, and which shoe within that category, is to go to someone who specializes in fitting runners with shoes. You want someone who not only does that day in and day out, but who also has to deal with anyone who comes back because they had a problem with the shoes. Your local specialty running store is the best possible place to get shoes. Mail ordering based on the advice of any internet forum is the worst possible way to get shoes.
Lee Silverman
JackRabbit Sports
New York City
Train in Adrenalines and race in Racer STs, love them. I also love the “Run World Run” ad campaign. Great brand … not to hot on the apparel, but the shoes rock.
The question asked was, “What are your experiences with Brooks shoes,” which is a pretty legitimate question. When buying shoes, there is nothing wrong with finding out about the brands, (durability, general widths, etc.) prior to visiting the shop to guy them. Nike, Brooks, Asics, Avia… they all sell shoes for pronators, severe over pronators, extra severe overpronators (and sometimes you get lucky and find a pair for an underpronator like me!) and any shop worth its salt is going to carry several brands and be happy to sell any of them to you.
My experience with Brooks shoes are a little different than those expressed, as I have found them to rapidly show wear. For instance, my wife’s Adrenaline (which she loves) are about four months old, have been used for running only and maybe 250 miles max. The rubber on the front and heel have been worn almost smooth. I have not had experience personal experience with their shoes in probably ten years, but found that to be the case back then, also.
So, I’d say they make good running shoes, but you may need replace them more often than (in my experience) Asics.
Brooks is an awesome company (local to us and a sponsor of our team - just for full disclosure).
They make great products without all the hype. If Brooks makes a shoe that fits you and fits your needs than by all means wear it but spend the time to figure this out. Running is the highest impact sport that we all do and having it dialed in will let you be a triathlete a lot longer.
I love my adrenalines. I have slight overpronation and have only run about 100 miles in my pair but so far so good. My advise would be to go to a competent running store for fitting. I was fitted at Fleet Feet and while I had 3 other shoes to choose from, and all felt good, the Brooks felt the best.
KC