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Nick Harris-Fry

The new Brooks Glycerin Flex is a gamechanger for cushioned running shoes — I ran a 10K in the new 'flexible' sneaker

Brooks Glycerin Flex.

It’s not hard to see what the fashionable approach to making running shoes is right now, because any sneaker you look at has a huge stack of foam in its midsole.

Almost all of the best running shoes released these days follow this maximalist trend, and I for one am a big fan of highly-cushioned shoes, many of which have rockers to roll you through your footstrike. This style of shoe is not to everyone’s taste however, and the stiff, rockered rides of these cushioned shoes are quite prescriptive in how they hold the foot and guide your frunning gait.

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