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Good news runners: Running shoes will once again level up in the new year. While runners have always geeked out about their favorite kicks—either for the color, the look, the technology, or the new PR they set running in them—never before have training and racing models felt like such hot commodities. After getting a sneak peek of the hottest running shoes of 2025, it’s clear to me that training and racing models are continuing to get lighter, faster, funkier, and just down-right better.
I just spent three days meeting with running shoe brands at The Running Event in Austin, Texas, to check out the latest and greatest models that will hit stores throughout 2025. The shoes you have been training and racing in this year might have had plenty of new-shoe swagger when you got them last spring, but they’ll be old news once this whole…
