Brooks Adrenaline GTS8 Review - Runs #4, #5, and #6

Thursday: 6ish miles with Ashley; all roads or sidewalks; lots of steep hills.
Friday: 7 miles on roads; some hills. A GLORIOUS RUN IN THE RAIN!
Saturday: 8 miles on roads; some hills.

A Success Story:

It's amazing how much quicker my runs seem to go by when I am wearing good shoes. I don't know if I'm actually running quicker - I haven't been running with a watch - but mentally I can break down the runs but more coolly. Take yesterday's run for example. When I think about starting that seven mile loop, I think that I must be coming close to East Jibip; early this summer, the run seemed intimidatingly long. Now, when I run in the Brooks Adrenaline, I feel so smooth. Every movement is not labored to a ridiculous degree.

(No, Brooks is not paying me to say these cheesy things. This is fo rel.)

The Conclusion of this Shoe Review:

Lightness. Smoothness. That's the two best features that these shoes have to offer. I am confident now that if anytime soon I feel beat during a run, it will be because of a tough week of training, and not because I'm wearing the wrong shoes.

The cusioning isn't so bad either. I won't lie though - There are some strange sensations I've been having in my feet this week. In my left, I still have that odd feeling in my middle metatarsal, and today the ball of my right foot was rather tender.

Then again, my feet are probably just confused. What? We're being nurtured now? We were starting to accept that we'd be living in Nikes forever. It's about time you smartened up, old gal.

My Left Foot give the shoes an A+. He's smart enough to know that this familiar metatarsal pain is nothing serious and was probably not caused by the Brooks because he was only living in them for two days before the strange sensation began. He has high expectations that the Brooks Adrenaline will only help the sensation dissipate.

My Right Foot gives the shoes a B+. Until the sensitivity in her ball-area began today, she would have been ready to give the Adrenalines an A, too, but now she's slightly suspicious. What about this MoGo? And this new and improved forefoot cushioning she's heard so much about? To be honest, she says, she expects today's new achiness to subside soon, and she is most bitter about the blister on her backside (heel) and on her inner arch. The Right Foot usually takes a beating when it's time to break in shoes. (Not that she would admit it, but she is slightly wider and pronates more than The Left Foot.)