Adidas Adizero Evo Sl Dark Blue Lucid Red Muted Purple

As a runner, use it for faster efforts, race days and shorter sessions where lightness beats padding, and rotate in a more cushioned trainer for long slow miles. Off the road the colourway is the appeal: black tapered joggers with a plain black tee lets all three colours register cleanly, or grey shorts and a white tee for summer. Race style fits run snug, so account for foot swell if you are logging distance. Thin engineered uppers cannot take a washing machine, so brush by hand with mild soap, air dry away from heat, and avoid leaving them compressed in a bag while damp.

adidas separates its two selves clearly: the three angled bars, introduced in 1997 by creative director Peter Moore, mark performance product, while the Trefoil marks lifestyle. This shoe is squarely on the performance side, in the part of the business that produced Boost with German chemical company BASF in 2013 and once marketed the adidas 1 as the world's first intelligent shoe, with a microprocessor performing five million calculations a second to adjust cushioning. adidas has always chased engineering spectacle, and the modern adizero range is where that instinct now lives.

A thin engineered upper with minimal overlays, built to hold the foot without adding weight, over a foam midsole tuned for a fast turnover rather than for maximum protection. The wider adizero line uses thermoplastic polyester elastomer midsoles with embedded carbon rods instead of a single plate in its racing models, and the Evo SL is the stripped down trainer that sits alongside those. What you feel underfoot is responsiveness rather than plushness. The fit is close through the midfoot in the way race derived shoes tend to be, and the upper is thin enough that you can see daylight through it, which is a design decision rather than a shortcut.