Introduction to the Brooks Hyperion Elite MD
KALEB: Mercer, Jordy, and I are in varied phases of being coached year-round — Mercer and me by our respective school packages, and Jordy by her beast of a highschool program that has turned her right into a multi-event monster and D1 commit. It’s enjoyable being on the workforce grind, however relying on the season (particularly throughout the fall cross-country season), we would not get the prospect to spin ourselves ‘spherical a monitor, which implies critiques for spikes are rather less constant right here at Consider within the Run. So we do our greatest to place a little bit further care into our spike critiques in order that firms will no less than have high quality suggestions to make up for misplaced time.
However the indoor monitor season has arrived ultimately, and with it, all of you constant Consider within the Run readers get a break from the outdated people because the three of us get the privilege to jot down one more chaotic monitor spike evaluation.
Not like its street division (which, till not too long ago, has upheld an age-old custom of being a warmer assortment of rubbish than Robbe finds on a future in Baltimore), Brooks’ monitor division has all the time had no less than one thing to justify its existence. The Wire (good title), ELMN8 (completely atrocious title), and QW-Ok (what?) have rounded out the Brooks monitor lineup from lengthy to brief distance with more and more silly naming conventions. Whereas they’re not the highest of their class, they’re not laughingstocks both, so when Brooks makes a monitor spike, it’s price no less than strapping your ft into (sock-clad or in any other case… Mercer) to see what’s up.
However while you’ve bought Josh Kerr, top-of-the-line distance monitor athletes on the planet proper now, in your nook, you’ve bought to be greater than “alright.” So earlier than the Olympics this summer time, Brooks arrange its slowly increasing kitchenette and began cooking two new spikes for the 1,500m specialist. Of the 2 items of footwear that emerged, Kerr opted to put on the longer-distance possibility, the Hyperion Elite LD, for his Olympic 1500m. This evaluation is for its youthful, middle-distance cousin, the Hyperion Elite MD.
I’ve already hit my quota for sarcastic parenthetical insertions (like this one), and we’re solely within the intro, so that is certain to be a great evaluation from the gun. Attempt to sustain.
