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Brooks adreanline or saucony progrid guide4

  • 28-09-2011 8:16pm
    #1
    mcathlete
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    Can anyone shed some light on if there is any real difference between brooks adrenaline and saucony guide4. I have the adrenaline and they are great but was thinking of getting the progrid guide4 just for a change. Has anyone had both and which do you think are better. Thx....


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  • #2
    zinzan1
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭zinzan1


    I've just bought a pair of Brooks Adrenaline GTS 11 shoes. I'm only wearing them for the last hour in the house but the arches feel very high, not too comfortable. Was wearing Mizuno up to now. Anyone else come across this?


  • #3
    RayCun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    zinzan1 wrote: »
    I've just bought a pair of Brooks Adrenaline GTS 11 shoes. I'm only wearing them for the last hour in the house but the arches feel very high, not too comfortable. Was wearing Mizuno up to now. Anyone else come across this?

    Yeah, I made the same switch and it took me a couple of weeks to get used to the Brooks.


  • #4
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    zinzan1 wrote: »
    I've just bought a pair of Brooks Adrenaline GTS 11 shoes. I'm only wearing them for the last hour in the house but the arches feel very high, not too comfortable. Was wearing Mizuno up to now. Anyone else come across this?

    The Brooks have a high enough arch, have done through all their incarnations, as far as I can make out. These Adrenaline 11's are much lighter than previous versions, they have a new type of midsole. To my mind (I'm a prop-forward at the moment) they have sacrificed a lot of cushioning in favour of lightness, that'll suit some, but not me. Adrenaline 8's were my perfect shoe.


  • #5
    zinzan1
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭zinzan1


    Thanks everyone, I quite like the brooks for their lightness and low cuff around the ankle but I'm still not sure about the high arches (the cushioning isn't a problem, I'm under 60kg - a long way from a prop forward!). I've been running in mizuno inspire 3(nearly perfect) and mizuno inspire 5(not as good), so maybe I'll give the mizuno inspire 7 another try before I commit to the brooks.


  • #6
    sconhome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭sconhome


    Hi zinzan1, not sure if you saw my reply to you here re the difference between the two shoes.

    The Mizuno is 3g lighter than the Brooks, both in or about 320g so little or no difference there.


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  • #7
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The 10's and 11's had high arches, I don't mind it really. I have had to retire my pair of 8's recently, as mentioned, a perfect shoe (for me anyway).


  • #8
    zinzan1
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭zinzan1


    Hi Amphkingwest, yes I saw that reply and thank you, it's so difficult to get any clear comparative information about shoes. I tried on the Mizuno wi7 again today, the cuff around my ankle feels a bit high but I don't think that would be as much a problem as the high arch in the Brooks shoe. I think I'll go back and see if the shop will exchange my Brooks for the Mizuno pair.


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