Weight 401gEvaluation The Twin Strike is the third shoe from Adidas to use its A3 technology, but it’s the first to use the podular cushioning system in both the rearfoot and forefoot. Designed to stabilise and guide the foot from heel-strike to toe

, this article should give you a headstart. It’s a guide to shoes for runners with the four most common ‘minority’ biomechanically-based problems (forefoot striking, heel striking, underpronation and orthoses-wearing), as well as runners with the problem of very

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in its top-end road shoes. This smoothes the heelstrike, and guides the foot through to toe-off. There’s also a two-layer midsole. Asics says that splitting the midsole horizontally provides the heel with some independence from the forefoot. Allied

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Weight 414gEvaluation Asics has been trying to make the motion-control more natural on some of its shoes over the last couple of years by slowing and guiding the foot, rather than just restricting it with firm medial posts. Now it’s the turn

Weight 383gEvaluation The Hurricane has long been one of Saucony's best models, offering a top-notch combination of cushioning, stability and smoothness. Over the years, the company has tended to go for gentle tweaks to the shoe, rather than

So far this year we've printed three of our four quarterly Shoe Buyer's Guides. And that means we've already tried and tested an astonishing 63 pairs of brand new, or significantly updated, running shoes in 2004. As we still have one more guide