Anybody notices what Eliud Kipchoge was wearing in Berlin? Doesn't look like any of current racers, not even the Japanese stuff.
Anybody notices what Eliud Kipchoge was wearing in Berlin? Doesn't look like any of current racers, not even the Japanese stuff.
I am guessing the new Adidas Adios Boost. TPU midsole, standard mesh upper. Not the lightest shoe on the market, but good cushioning for a neutral gate.
Has to be a nike shoe. Kipchoge is a nike athlete and there is no way he would be allowed to wear an adidas.
My bad, I was thinking about Wilson's WR shoes, didn't even read the OP, you're quite right.
I noticed that too. It is not any of the racing flats on runningwarehouse or roadrunnersport.
Maybe a new streak 5 ?
cpaiglesias, I thought so too. Perhaps a streak 5 prototype.
Mike Lundgren, Kipsang was wearing a regular adios 2. Kind of surprising that he's not wearing the adios boost version.
http://www.runblogrun.com/2013/09/30/Kipsang-Kipsang-KipchogeWide-Berlin13.JPG
Lunar spider?
Paulus, what is intriguing is that Kipsang used the adios boost in London and now went back to the adios 2. Not a good Comercial for addidas trying to get people to buy the new adios boost.
A shoe that didn't cost a million dollars worth of R&D
This question was brought up at TrackTalk when Abdi was planning to run Boston. He didn't run but still posted some close-ups pre race :
http://instagram.com/p/XsuXzbTYVn/
http://instagram.com/p/XsuMA_TYVX/
From the 2nd photo, you can tell its definitely a zoom model.
To me, it looks too high-end to be a streak but more like a shoe in the $110-130 price point (what NIKE considers that to be, that is). A tiny bit of the name is visible in the 1st pic on the tongue but its really hard to read. Since you guys brought it up though, I'm almost convinced that it does say "...STRE..."
(The shoe was never addressed on the the TT thread after the OP)
Did you see.his heel strike?
I'm very impressed with Kipchoge's marathon.
He's one of the all time greats from 5k to marathon.
The Abdi shoe is the streak 3 sole unit + new upper. No flyknit, more like the lunarglide 4/5 upper with exposed flywire.
Looks like kipchoge got the same shoes only different colors.
He ran in the Lunarspider 4, just a different colour version
Hi Cuan, don;t think it's the lunarspider r4. Seems like the custom or prototype streak.
And again, nearly every african nike athlete is racing in the streak 3 shoe. No flyknit, no streak 4, no lunaracer. Either sole unit and custom upper or the regular streak 3. Some guys like bekele get custom last but they all use it for road races.
looks like the new streak lt2 with dynamic flywire (at least the shoe linked above with the instagram photos)
the spider has what i refer to as a "mud guard" at the very front of the toebox where as this shoe has a completely open mesh toe area. would be awesome if nike actually released a version of the new streak with the flywire because the one knock on the streak for me is i dont feel as locked down as i do in, say, a lunaracer
Streak 4 sole unit and special make up upper which will be released in the spring, Tegenkamp has been wearing the same shoe in another colour just recently.