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They’d be fine for that I supposed…the heavily lugged outsole is probably not necessary but I do use them casually from time to time too. -David

Thanks for sharing your experience. I do agree they aren’t specifically suited for technical terrain. The heel is too wide for sure and not as nimble as it could be if cut sharper and the upper could use a little more structure for more precision. However, the reason why I like them and still stand by my recommendation is that they run quite well for such a wide variety of surfaces (something very rare for a shoe with as much lug). If I was going to purpose build a shoe for technical terrain, then yes, this is not the shoe I’d make, but for a general all-purpose trail shoe, it is quite versatile and while not perfect on technical terrain, it is not horrible (better for me than something like the Pearl Izumi N2v2 and Nike Wildhorse 3 which are its closest competitors) and works well enough to get through sections like that on long runs or races that are for the most part less technical. -David

Two major issues

1) Very poor stability/squirm
2) Poor grip on hard surfaces

Both seem to be due to the very tall and widely spaced lugs.

The lugs are way over the top for a running shoe. They are more suited to a mud plugging trail boot. This leads to the shoe being unstable on irregular objects when the heel over angle becomes extreeme due to the enormously high stack.
I have never rolled an ankle but managed to do so on these shoes on technical terrain.

The tall and widely spaced lugs, whilst of an excellent compound squirm and slide on wet rock and squirm on dry rock reducing confidence immensely. It also makes sharp manouvres harder to effect on technical terrain.

Their comfort and protection on flat but stony trails are good. IF your trails are fire roads and you don’t need to turn, hop or manoeuvre these shoes may well be ok for you.

I believe they are not fit for purpose however and borderline dangerous in technical terrain

They ride just fine on pavement, but the lugs are not designed to hold up to extensive road running so they will wear out quicker if you do a lot of road in them. A few miles here or there to get to some trails isn’t going to hurt them at all though and yes a very comfortable shoe that handles all kinds of runs well. Highly recommended! -David

We were talking about pointy shoes on another post and I noticed about the same time Boost came around, Adidas also seemed to go to a more pointy shoe than before.

I was a loyal Adidas guy for many years but than we had to break up awhile back lol I did try some Takumi Sen 3 recently but sent them right back..toe box was too tight for me and at that price I wanted perfection!.

The Adizero Sonic was probably my favorite “all around versatile shoe” especially the first two versions..I could run short, long, fast, any type of trail, road too..it was good everywhere and it was cheap too :-) only issue I ever had was a pretty good callous on bottom of foot (get that from Brooks shoes too)

I said it before, I still miss the Adiprene and the rounder toe boxes !

Thanks!

That is a personal decision. I usually choose the size that is the smallest that I can and usually don’t have much more than 1 cm between my toe and front in of shoe. I find a closer fitting shoe to run much better all the way around and the Response TR Boost in particular is pretty soft on the feet as long as you can keep it secure on your foot (i.e. not too loose) it should be great on blisters (I don’t even use socks with them). I’d go with the smaller size personally. Hope that helps – David