The original Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo broke new ground for carbon plate super-shoes, being impossibly light and ludicrously expensive — it set you back $500 if you were lucky enough to get hold of one of the limited pairs put on sale.
It sparked an arms race among running shoe brands as rivals aimed to make their own hyper-light racing shoe, with models like the Asics Metaspeed Ray and Mizuno Hyperwarp Pure coming in under 5oz.
