By Noel Paine  Welcome to my Saucony Kinvara 14 review.I tried on a number of runing shoes over the years but never really started using the saucony Kinvara until I began racewalking a few years back, in addition to my running. I have run and racewalked in the Saucony Kinvara 11, 12, 13 and now the […]

By Kieran Alger  Like the first-generation Adizero Prime X Strung, the Adidas Prime X2 Strung is a big-stack carbon race shoe built for all-out speed over every distance. The upgrades include a powerful combination of three layers Lightstrike Pro midsole that breaks the World Athletics’ legal stack height limits, a dual carbon plate system and the […]

By Keiran Alger  The New Balance Fresh Foam X 1080 has always aimed to bring comfort to your daily training miles. This thirteenth generation has seen some pretty big changes designed to elevate that. The 1080V13 now packs a bigger midsole stack that’s softer, lighter and bouncier while the uppers add extra padding, maxing out on […]

By Paul Freary  The Clifton is one of, if not the best-selling shoe from HOKA. The ninth-generation model is an improvement on the previous version, with slight updates to the upper and midsole.On the whole, the shoe remains true to the styling of the previous models of the shoe so that long-time users will find it […]

By Paul Freary  The Brooks Adrenaline GTS 23 is Brooks’ most popular support category model. In terms of cushioning, Brooks places the shoe in the middle of their offerings, as they do with it in terms of support.I’ll talk more about the support the Adrenaline provides later, as the shoe provides a unique solution to control […]

By Kieran Alger  The Saucony Kinvara Pro was one of the most baffling shoe launches of the year. The carbon-plated daily trainer left a lot of testers and runners, including me, a little confused about what it’s actually for. Saucony says the Knivara Pro is designed to bring more efficiency to your daily running and was […]

By Noel Paine   I ran in the original HOKA Carbon X shoe and loved it. I then bought the second version which had very few changes and had the feel I liked. The shoe still felt like a light but thick cushioned HOKA but had a stiff rocker. I really did notice a difference. It […]

By Kieran Alger  The HOKA Mach X is the latest running shoe to get HOKA’s X treatment, taking a popular shoe, tweaking it slightly, sticking a plate in the midsole and marking it with an X. This punchier, plated sibling to the HOKA Mach 5 packs a Pebax rather than a carbon plate and it aims […]

By Kieran Alger  While many brands have been busy sticking plates – carbon or otherwise – in their daily trainers, Brooks has bucked that trend a bit. At least with a couple of its popular running shoes, the racy Hyperion Max and the cheaper, lower-stacked Hyperion – formerly the Hyperion Tempo. Here is my comparison […]

By Paul Freary  The Gaviota 5 is the latest stability running shoe from HOKA and features a brand-new design element, the H-Frame. This new stabilising feature has allowed the brand to use softer midsole foam for cushioning in a deep stack while still being able to provide sufficient control for over-pronators.If you click, or buy from, […]