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- Upper
- Mesh
- Colourway
- White Black
- Cushioning
- Boost
Adidas Adizero Boston 13 Core White Core Black Lime Burst
Adidas Adizero Boston 13 Core White Core Black Lime Burst
- Upper
- Mesh
- Colourway
- White Black
- Cushioning
- Boost
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Part of the Adizero Boston 13 line. This release has a mesh upper in Core White/Core Black/Lime Burst. Boston is the name adidas gives to its fast daily trainer, the shoe that sits between an easy mileage cruiser and a race day plate shoe. It carries the adizero name, which is where adidas concentrates its competitive engineering, and the thirteenth generation continues the approach the brand chose over a single carbon plate: thermoplastic polyester elastomer midsoles with embedded carbon rods, so the forefoot can still articulate while the shoe returns energy. Core White with Core Black and Lime Burst is the colourway that announces the shoe is meant to move. The lime is not decoration, it is the visual convention of a session shoe, and adidas has used that high visibility accent language across its running line since Boost launched in 2013.
Use it for tempo runs, progression efforts and long runs where you intend to push the back half, and for race day if you are not going to buy a dedicated racer. Keep an easy day trainer alongside it so the rod geometry is not under your foot for every kilometre. Fit is performance cut, so go true to size with a thin technical sock and lock the heel using the last eyelet rather than tightening the whole lace. Loosen the forefoot before a long effort to allow for swelling. Never machine wash them, since heat and detergent degrade midsole foam and adhesives. Brush road grit off the white mesh while it is dry, and rotate them out of the bag to dry rather than leaving them sealed.
adidas has used running as its proving ground for a decade, since it launched Boost in 2013 with the German chemical company BASF and moved the industry's default away from EVA foam. Boost's bounce came from processing the thermoplastic polyurethane into thousands of fused pellets rather than from the raw polymer, and it held its behaviour better in cold weather, which mattered to anyone who trains through winter. The adizero rod construction is the sequel to that argument. The Boston is where it reaches ordinary runners: not a shoe reserved for a start line, but the one people actually do their tempo work in, which is a harder thing to get right.
The build is about controlled propulsion rather than maximum softness. Carbon rods embedded in a thermoplastic polyester elastomer midsole let the shoe roll through the toe off instead of levering off one stiff plate, which is what makes the Boston workable at more than one pace. The upper is a thin engineered mesh cut to keep weight down, with the Three Stripes integrated as structural support rather than as a badge, which is how adidas has treated the mark since it bought it from Karhu Sports in 1952. Core White dominates, Core Black holds the heel and the branding, and Lime Burst runs through the accents. Style code JS4946. A white mesh upper will grey at the toe box with road miles.
- Upper
- Mesh
- Colourway
- White Black
- Cushioning
- Boost
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