MSRP: $160
Weight: 8.0 ounces. (women’s size 8), 9.2 ounces (men’s size 9)
Heel-Toe Offset: 37mm in the heel, 30.5mm in the forefoot
Stack Height: 6.5mm
For years, the Adidas Boston was a performance training shoe designed to get you through both the high-mileage weeks and the faster workouts necessary for running a strong marathon like, say, Boston.
But while shoe materials, components, and design paradigms improved with the running shoe industry’s focus on racing shoes, the Boston ambled along with minor midsole foam updates and the addition of a truncated version of Adidas’ original Energy Rods system. Now, as the focus has switched back to training shoes, there’s been a trickling down of top-tier technology that has started to enhance models in the performance training shoe category like the Boston.
One of the newest models in this revamped category, the new Adizero Boston 12 features Adidas’ new Energy Rods 2.0 propulsion system embedded in its midsole, an update that’s also found in its top-of-the-line Adizero Adios Pro 3 racing shoes. (Other shoes in the same semi-super…
