I’ve been testing the best carbon plate running shoes ever since the original Nike Vaporfly 4% and was lucky enough to try the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 before the London Marathon, where it was used by Sabastian Sawe to run the first official sub-2 marathon in history.
It’s an incredible running shoe, weighing less than 3.5oz and still packing in a high stack of very springy foam and a carbon fibre rim, rather than a full plate. When I spoke to the team behind the development of the Pro Evo 3, it was clear how every aspect of it has been tuned for performance.
