Weight 215gEvaluation Adidas’s lighter racers have always been very wearable – with a fairly relaxed, wide fit and good cushioning. The Star Racer replaces the great-value perennial, the Concerto, but it’s £20 more expensive and 20g heavier

Weight 391gEvaluation The Vapor is the latest shoe to be rebuilt around Brooks’s new, more relaxed and stable last. It’s also had its stability features enhanced, so now it has more in common with Brooks’s Addiction, a good-value £65 motion

Weight 243gEvaluation Sometimes it seems that half of Fila’s design effort must go into the Racer. The work invariably pays off: it’s a beautifully-fitting, smooth-riding, responsive racer. This year’s update seems yet more wearable than before

Weight 253gEvaluation The Phantom has always been a fantastic midweight racing shoe. It became even better when Mizuno added its Wave technology into the midsole. With minimal weight cost, that added cushioning, because the rippled plastic plate

Weight 400gEvaluation Aside from the Brooks Beast, you won’t find a more specific shoe for big runners than the Wave Renegade: a superb, ultra-supportive, durable, and very well-cushioned trainer. With a Double Wave design (one plate sits on top

This model may still be available on clearance. But we've reviewed a newer version since we published this.Weight 295gEvaluation When the Precision was introduced two years ago, it immediately became one of the best performance training shoes

Weight 414g Evaluation At first glance, the Premier Stability appears to have fewer control features than the cheaper Premier Road. Although the hard plastic support shank is bigger, the second-density medial post seems much smaller. Check out

Weight 366g Evaluation The Gel Guts harks back to Asics's popular Trespass and Canyon shoes. It's a keenly priced, no-nonsense, hardwearing workhorse of a trail shoe. It's more Land Rover Defender than Range Rover Vogue, which means it's the kind

Weight 225gEvaluation It’s good to see Adidas’s carbon-fibre Pro Plate in a really light shoe – after all, it’s designed to increase propulsive power. Testing of the last shoe – the 300g-plus Gazelle Pro Plate – found that the stiff, springy plate

Weight 330gEvaluation The Delta is Etonic's 'lightweight' cushioning model. That doesn't mean it's a performance trainer, though, as it weighs in closer to traditional cushioning models like the Nike Air Pegasus. And if you take the Delta as a