Adidas Ultraboost Light Review: This Shoe Makes My Easy Runs Feel Even Easier

There are workout shoes for each sort of session: easy runs, long runs, brisk walks, full-body circuits, and heavy strength days. If you happen to wear a dedicated one for every, well, that may mean an entire bunch of sneakers. So a pair that may do all of it can definitely be well worth the investment.

Enter: The Adidas Ultraboost Light, the sveltest version in Adidas’s classic Ultraboost line. The shoe, which was made for on a regular basis runs, also brings an additional benefit: It’s pretty rattling good for all the opposite times you’re in your feet too. Read on to seek out out which workouts worked best for these cozy and funky on a regular basis sneakers.

How I Tested

I wore the Adidas Ultraboost Light on and off for a couple of month during a variety of activities, including runs starting from 20 to 60 minutes, hour-long interval sessions on the elliptical, upper-body strength-training workouts, and hours of walking. Nearly all of my runs were on the road, though I did take the Ultraboosts on a couple of miles of densely packed, non-technical trails to examine them out on a rather different sort of terrain.

Then I evaluated the Adidas Ultraboost Light based on the standards set by our experts for considering trainers, hitting on things like fit, feel, shape, and the way my body felt during—and after—each activity.

Fit

One in every of the cool things in regards to the Ultraboost Light is that it was specifically designed for a lady’s foot: It has a narrower heel, which Adidas says helps prevent slippage. The specialized fit may explain why the Ultraboosts fit truer to size for me than other trainers. I’m a 6 in street shoes, but I just about at all times size up a half size for trainers. I took the Ultraboosts for a couple of runs in 6.5s, but they felt a bit too big. I ended up going back to my normal street shoe size, which ended up fitting quite a bit higher.

The Primeknit material on the upper is stretchy, so there’s an excellent amount of give there too. I’m a giant fan of that socklike design because I actually feel prefer it keeps you secure without feeling too constrictive. It actually jogged my memory of the unique Nike Infinity Reacts, the shoe that I wore training for my first marathon.

One other cool thing in regards to the fit? The Ultraboost Light is a neutral running shoe—meaning, it’s not made specifically for individuals who overpronate (meaning your foot rolls inward with each stride) or supinate (your foot rolls outward)—but I felt prefer it provided solid stability. Which may be as a consequence of the thick foam pods along either side of the heel, which might prevent side-to-side ankle movement. The truth is, my sports medicine doctor even mentioned that the shoes kept me stable during tests like single-leg hops and squats, despite my natural tendency for ankle wobbling.

Shape

Trainers have been looking a bit elvish currently, and the Ultraboost Lights aren’t any exception: They’ve an entire bunch of froth underfoot (more on what that does in a moment), and much more of it extending across the heel, giving it that cute little point on the back.