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adidas Introduces the Adizero Boston 13 & adidas History at the Boston Marathon
May 14, 2025
Link to our full written review of the Adizero Boston 13: https://www.roadtrailrun.com/2025/04/adidas-adizero-boston-13-review-7.html
Test sample provided at no cost by adidas for review
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okay we're with Charlotte who's the
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category director responsible for the
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Audi Zero Boston 13 which I'm going to
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review and give you my ride impressions
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i've run a bunch in it go ahead
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Charlotte sure thanks for your time so
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um let me talk to you about what Boston
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13 is um everything that's new on this
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model so we built the Boston 12 which
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was a great running shoe but we gather a
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lot of feedback especially when it comes
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in the upper comfort so some runners
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said that the upper especially the heel
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and the tongue area was built in a very
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minimalistic way and almost feels too
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racy so now we've put a lot of effort
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into making the shoe more comfortable
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for those really long training runs that
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you can do with the shoe so we added
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more padding in the tongue we simplified
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the lacing area to not cause any
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pressure points and we added some more
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padding in the heel not only on the
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sides but also in the middle i really
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appreciated that it's really good yeah
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to really get that comfort in the heel
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did you change anything with the
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strapping here no so this is the only
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thing that we changed we removed the
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heel flip yeah remember on the 12 we
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would have the little addi0 heel flip
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remove that we will keep them on the
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training on the racing models but not on
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the training models
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and then what goes on underfoot here
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13.8% more light strike pro where is it
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okay so the 13.8% 8% more light strike
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pro like you mentioned is here on the
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forefoot so we continue to use light
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strike at the bottom and then we have
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the energy rods in the middle that you
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can see here and then we have a thicker
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layer of light strike prom which is the
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softer foam and that really creates this
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nice snappy feel throughout the
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transition and that was something I
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really noticed i also noticed it seemed
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uh somewhat more flexible maybe because
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the light strike pro isn't as dense did
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the energy rods change the energy rods
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did not change did not change the same
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as Okay exactly and then what about
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under foot
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underneath ah lots
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of big change completely new outsole
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which is a combination of light track
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and continental rubber so all the black
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and the teal is continental exactly okay
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yeah exactly and continental is to us
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very important to use for this model
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because it's a training model so people
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train on the road or on other surfaces
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such as gravel or the
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forest so that's why we need a lot of
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grip and also durability for training
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excellent so this is a wonderful
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evolution in my my testing of the Boston
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13 and I actually ran uh in the Boston
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boost once right from the trade show and
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it treated me right so if I was running
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Boston in my old age I'd be considering
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the 13 cuz it's nice and stable thank
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you Charlotte yeah thank you thank you
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well done adidas has a long history at
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the Boston Marathon starting with
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Katherine Switzer the first woman to
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finish uh officially in an Adidas and
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then the Adidas Boston
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1985 as kind of a basic training shoe
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and Greta Weights in the Marathon 80
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that's a shoe I I ran in and then we
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move forward the first uh black man to
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win the uh the marathon Ibraim Hussein
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88 and then for 37 years Adidas has had
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a partnership with the Boston Marathon
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and this has been a long time
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partnership and a really good one and
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now the colorway of our uh Boston 13 the
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equipment kind of uh look or colors
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first introduced in
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1991 as the volunteer
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jacket and the actual equipment running
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cushion um was the first equipment
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series
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um and finally the more recent results
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uh 2021 through the present Adidas
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runners have been have won the Boston
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Marathon and here you can see who they
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are and the shoes they wore so what will
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it be on