Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 4 Lucid Lemon Black

Lucid Lemon over black on the Adizero Adios Pro 4 is race day dress code, a colour engineered to be picked out from a broadcast camera and a start line. This is the part of adidas closest to what the company was originally for. Adolf Dassler began in his mother's laundry room in Herzogenaurach making purpose built shoes for individual athletic events, watching athletes rather than guessing at them, and the Adizero programme is the direct descendant of that habit. The Adios name has carried adidas marathon racing for years, and the Pro designation marks the top of the competitive line rather than the trainer sitting under it. In this colourway the black is a base and the lemon is the signal, which is exactly the hierarchy a racing shoe wants.