I just ran in my T6’s from last year and they feel trashed, no bounce at all. Now I love the new Launch’s by Brooks and run in them 8+ miles. Do any of the shoe guru’s out there have thoughts on a race shoe? I prefer Brooks in general, but am open to others. The myriad of brook racing choices all look alike to me.
I race in mine.
I just ran in my T6’s from last year and they feel trashed, no bounce at all. Now I love the new Launch’s by Brooks and run in them 8+ miles. Do any of the shoe guru’s out there have thoughts on a race shoe? I prefer Brooks in general, but am open to others. The myriad of brook racing choices all look alike to me.
I love my Brooks Launch and wear them the majority of time in training and whenever I am doing anything longer than 70.3. I wear the T7 Racer for anything 70.3 and under.
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Brooks Launch for anything over 13 miles, training or racing.
Brooks Racer ST5 for anything less than that…training or racing…awesome shoe
I do halfs and longer in Launch and less in T7. May race a half in the 7s though. Dont think the St5s are great coming from launch, too firm
well, thank you folks, I’ll look for some T7’s for the shorter stuff.
I do halfs and longer in Launch and less in T7. May race a half in the 7s though. Dont think the St5s are great coming from launch, too firm
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Used to use the Defyance for anything longer than half’s but the Launch is lighter and more responsive so that is the go-to kicks now.
Brooks T7. The Green Silence are good too, as long as the course is not too technical. I found they were a little sloppy running ~5:15 miles on an open 5k course that had lots of turns last year. I would definitely wear the Green Silence for 1/2 Marathon up to 50k where I’m 6:00 and up pace. I really do like the T7 best for fastest efforts up to marathon, though.