Not long til Manchester!, my first marathon after a 2.5 year injury / COVID break. Lost all of my fitness and confidence (if I am being honest) but after cheering on the MCR marathon last year I decided to quit my wining and get back into it. I’ll get nowhere near my PB but this is all about me committing to something and “getting it done”. Hopefully I will get to meet you on race day. I did a reccy run of 17 miles of the course on Friday night. It is really flat - just a couple of bridges over the tram/train tracks but nothing to be concerned about.
This is my current shoe…and I LOVE the Takumi Sen 8. I’m no pro runner, just an average guy on double prosthetics and this shoe has been a game changer for me! Excellent review and these are now my super stable walking shoes. Believe it or not, the energy rods make all the difference for me as far as stability and ground contact coupled with the continental rubber/lights trike pro I’m back in the game.
Great to see your fitness back so high and a big SMILE on your face. Good luck in Manchester Ben!!! I was in Manchester a few years ago not for the marathon but just for a visit and I was in a place called Ancoats (North) and just behind a warehouse I saw two people going to the bathroom (no2) but not even in a toilet just in the street
Takumi sen 8 all day long , the rods give the sen 8 more pop, and personally will last longer than the squidgy streakfly which will bottom out far quicker , the only downside is it’s pricier but I paid the same price in promo codes so win win
thanks for the review! looking forward to seeing the 5k race video!! Currently training for my first marathon in Thailand on March 20th - it's gonna be HOT!!!! I love the 1k repeats and a good solid tempo run, but find it hard to get the time for long runs as I've got a 6-month old son!! Hoping my fitness will carry me to the finish and my target of sub 4:30!!!
I would say the Nike, but problably because i prefer something more light and not a super shoes that i feal to be too rigid on my feet. Have a great run 🏃
Love my Takumi Sen 8, tried for a marathon but at around 17 miles the front of the arch really rubbed into my foot. Such a shame as other than that they felt amazing the whole time. Had some of my fastest runs in them. There's a local twilight run in just under a couple months, they should be grippy enough to handle some woodland trails.
I absolutely love my sen 8, I managed a half marathon pb in them (1:22:52). I don’t think I would really push them to the half marathon distance again though,
@@PoetWithPace I could just really start to feel the ground by the end of it and I also got a blister on the tip of my toe and my arch (that’s more to do with the fit and my foot though). My last half marathon I used the carbon x 2, they where great but kinda lacked the bounce and snap
I'm looking forward to trying out the StreakFly. I've been stock piling an older model Nike as I haven't found anything comparable, but I think this shoe will be what I have been waiting for.
you said it is expensive and it is. and then there's us who have to pay more for shipping and tax. and that's still saving a bit buying online because in adidas store here, takumi sen 8 costs 235 usd
Great review as always Ben, I've held off buying the Takumi 8's as I've had two pairs of Pro 2.0's fail on me in the last six months. Adidas have been absolutely brilliant and replaced my initial pair of Pro 2.0's following a broken carbon rod, and given a full refund after the second pair also broke a rod. I'm convinced there's a design flaw with the carbon rod and lightstrike pro combination with the higher stack height. The Sen 8's look super stable though and looking at your footage there's no lateral movement of your foot on landing, so perhaps these have the better blend of carbon rod/foam tec. I love the fit and upper of the Pro 2.0 and the Takumi Sen 8 seems to have improved on that incorporating elements of the Prime X upper into this shoe. You may just have convinced me to give the Takumi Sen 8's a try??
@BenjaminHill22 it only happened with the Pro 2, one rod broke on my first pair which was in the exposed section of the sole. The second pair I had the rod had broken within the foam. The fault was there when adidas sent the replacement pair so sent them straight back. (They clicked when I walked in them). Yet I have a pair Sen 8's and Prime X, with over 100 miles in each of them and I've had no problems. Both are brilliant shoes and prefer them over my Vaporfly's and Alphafly's
Hi Ben, I just bought US 9.5 a pair of this but seems like its not true to size while all my shoes are 9.5, should I go half size up? because I feel it is narrow in the midfoot.
i will never run in another Adidas shoe again. I was one of the unhappy runners who bought their own Adidas boston 10, and was really happy with it at the beginning. it seemed super comfortable, could take on miles, and could take on speed as well. having run in those shoes non stop for about 2 months, the cushion eventually stiffened due to use on wet and muddy cross country courses, which eventually kind of water logged the sole of the shoe. I decided it wasn’t much of an issue until i ended up injured for 7 months with a knee injury that cleared up just as track season started. I’ve always been a Nike person, and that solidified my standings as a nike fanboy.
Buy the Nike one first run in it decide if you like it or not cause Nike let's you try out shoes even if you ran and damaged them you can still send them back pretty amazing they do that 🙂 it's very nice to decide that way , you can do the same with a adidas but you can only walk on them around the house 🏠 .
@@jonnygspot4 I think it's the main reason so many of their pros chose version 1 to race in......I have them....certainly no issues with version 1 but the ride isn't the nicest for us mere mortals......to me adidas is short in terms of having top people at r&d for road running
@@daveaskew2105 Strangely, the Berlin edition colourway of the Pro 2 isn't quite so bad for me as the og White version. The Berlin edition are flatter across the forefoot outsole so a little more stable. Still prefer other racing shoes though!
@@jonnygspot4 I ran a half marathon yesterday in my Next % and was in a group of guys 1 of whom was wearing Pro 2....and I watched his footstrike.....could see how it was not letting him roll through properly......
