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Brooks Hyperion Max 3 Review: Way Up Max!
Jun 28, 2025
The Hyperion Max 3 is the Brooks uptempo, longer runs, road trainer. For v3 it goes up 10mm in stack height to 46mm heel / 40mm forefoot with a top layer of DNA Gold PEBA foam. How does that turn out? Please watch to find out.
00:00 Introduction, 00:54 Ride and Fit, 05:24 Ride and Comparisons 12:20 Conclusions
$200 Available July 1, 2025
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0:00
hi everyone Sam from Road Trail Run
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today we're going to take a look at the
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Hyperion Max 3 it releases July 1st $200
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so it's Brook's max cushioned uptempo
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trainer and for the third edition it
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gets 10 mm more stack height uh than
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before of two types of super critical
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foams with a plastic plate uh the upper
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is a performance fitting upper uh in
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terms of the platform so we're at
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4640 and um up front where the teal the
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the salmon colored is DNA gold 100% pee
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with below that a um super critical EVA
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flash V2 foam so let's I took them out
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for a run at my old high school going
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and share some commentary on fit ride
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and comparisons from the run as well as
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some conclusions okay everybody today
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I'm going to take you on a tour with the
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Hyperion Max 3 through my old high
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school if you can believe it this is a
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high school straight ahead is the
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fieldhouse with a 200 meter
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track now I'm in my second run here in
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the Hyperion Max 3 and this is
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clearly a very
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stable quick feeling
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uh maximally cushioned shoe cuz we're
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4640
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uh with a nice combination of DNA gold
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all pea up front and more
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stable flash V2 towards the rear so this
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is a
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nononsense kind of fast trainer that I
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think just about anybody can run in
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doesn't even though it has its medial
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cutout it's still
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remarkably stable and lively going to
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head down to the
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track where didn't used to be we were
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way out in the stadium i'm going to show
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you but we have a brand new we have a
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track that was built maybe named after
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my high school coach Ralph Lojian who
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was absolutely an amazing uh coach who
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was a legend in terms of bringing on
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non-athletic runners such as me or
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non-athletic people and making them into
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championship material and we were in the
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day so it's been a while since I've been
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on a nice track or any track
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and we're bouncing along very nicely
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here what you'll feel here is a very
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stable heel area cuz we have more DNA
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flash V2 which is super critical EVA on
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each side and then up
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front plunging and as a thinner layer at
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the back we have the DNA gold
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pea which feels quite a bit like a light
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strike pro maybe a bit softer so let's
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talk about the fit of our Hyperion Max 3
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well they went all out for support here
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the knit stretch knit and the mesh mesh
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isn't isn't a stretchy mesh really
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really support you well because of the
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46 mm heel even though we have a lot of
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the flash V2 foam the heel counter is
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super stout and uh supportive it's got
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it's not a uh don't come looking here
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for the plush kind of feel but it's a
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performance kind of very secure feel
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lace up's easy what I found is I had to
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kind of tie off the last or go through
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the last holes a bit looser because this
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is almost the kind of shoe you can run
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in without unlaced so you don't want to
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tie it too tight um and and when I tied
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it a little looser I was very
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comfortable so it it does fit true to
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size don't come looking here you can see
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my thumb for a super wide toe box
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because it doesn't have stretch it isn't
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super wide comfortable and appropriate
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for the massive stack here and really
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plays to
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the neutral stability of the shoe which
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is really excellent the uh
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cutout it really doesn't cause me to
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quote over pronate it's quite forward it
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actually kind of
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initiates kind of initiates the toe off
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to the big toe otherwise I think it
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would be too rigid it is a rigid rocker
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shoe there's no flex so far even some
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carbon shoes have a bit more flex but
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the rocker is effective cuz what you're
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doing is plunging into that salmon
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colored DNA gold which is uh you can see
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how deep it is it's I think it's um 25
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mm and the other is 15 mm the flash
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below it so that really gives you a
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plunging towe off and propulsion via the
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plate well I'm going to keep going i'm
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going on the old cross country
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course so now we're on my high school's
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cross country course flat flat very fast
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it was pretty much a road race one
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little hill further back and we're going
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to go by the exit river and the separate
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peace tree if you know that book but
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anyway terms of our Hyperion Max 3
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stable even on this little bit of gravel
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here is what you get here is a
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consistency a lot of consistency the
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landing at any pace consistent you
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definitely feel action of the front
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combination of plate and that dynamic
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DNA gold it's not kind of quite as much
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fun as a Skyward X from Hoka which is
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even higher stacked and a bit heavier
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but it's close and it's more shoe but
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very similar in design with the super
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foam up front to the Boston 13 which I
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think if you want a kind of faster tempo
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shoe with a lot of cushioning is uh a
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good
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choice now this one as I said has 10 mm
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more stack height than the
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predecessor and this is where the
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separate piece tree that they jumped if
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you read that book but anyway
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the predecessor the Hyperion Max 2 was
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a firmer lower stack shoe 10 mm less
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stack height all DNA flash V2 here we
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have we have close to the same
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experience but with more stack height
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yes there's more weight because we're
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9.9 281 g and the other one was about an
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ounce lighter 28 g lighter this is more
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shoe but I think equally in character
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it's a tempo kind of shoe with a say a
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longer run focus and more I think more
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accessible to more people
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i'm going to keep going so some others
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come to mind this yellow X1 X2 from Hoka
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this yellow X1 is really closer
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um because it's a little bit lighter i
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think it's 8.5 oz to to 9.9 whereas this
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Yellow X2 is very radical really a
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racing shoe more than anything uh and
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weighs I think 7 oz so a couple more
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than 2 ounces less but this is a more
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practical shoe for me than either of
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them as I said before I think it's
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closest competitor what Brooks was
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shooting for is the Skyward X here
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you've got maybe a little less fun but
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maybe a faster shoe it's lighter the
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foam maybe not as bouncy soft but still
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plenty protective bit more reactive
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beautiful out here so we used to trudge
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through here so after charging through
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the woods we'd have this road section
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slate downhill and things really flew
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so what I really noticed now that back
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on the road is the heel landing is 6 mm
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here but you're doesn't feel low and
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you're quickly move through to the
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midfoot that medial cutout no impact on
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stability but absolutely helps you roll
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to the front into the deep foam as far
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as paces going in the nines here
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uh after yesterday's trail run I nines I
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went sub 9m minute pace run my first run
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in them and they were fantastic i could
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have gone I ended up low
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eights the last mile but uh so it's a do
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it all shoe okay it isn't a legal racing
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height but the heavier marathoner the
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4hour person would be well well served
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to consider this one for its stability
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amount of cushioning and dynamic ride so
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coming out of the woods on the cross
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country course we'd have a straight shot
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for that little building then a left on
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the road got a lot of wet
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here whoa
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and then it was from here it was about a
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half mile to go so a few
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conclusions if you're looking for a max
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cushion plated trainer the 4640 here is
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way up there but this is not a radically
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difficult shoe to run it's effective
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it's serious so I'm able
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to run various paces in this could serve
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as a daily trainer it's barely a little
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over 10 ounces in a US9 so it's not
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heavy the foams are great lower level
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nitrogen flash V2 firmer
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stabilizing top layer more energetic
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more springy they work well together i
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like that the plate is not a full carbon
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and is a plastic so even though this is
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a rigid
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shoe it's a rigid to bending if you try
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to bend it doesn't feel that rigid on
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the run it's just a really effective
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rocker they call it rapid roll the whole
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combination all in all it is a $200 shoe
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but I do think it's versatile so it's
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not a racer for many but some would i
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think it'd be a good choice fit is
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performanceoriented no question uh
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relatively low volume nonstretch i think
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moderate width feet will be fine narrow
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will be very good broad you'll have to
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try but I think it's a pretty forgiving
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upper and it really has to be secure
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given the stack height and they have
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achieved that really well so I'm going
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to go to my reunion now first event
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thank you very much for
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watching and the uh the Brooks Hyperion
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Max 3 will release in June
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$200 it's a good one