The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.

Just days after its launch, Adidas’s new 97-gram running shoe is a London Marathon record breaker. Sabastian Sawe powered his way to a sub-two-hour marathon in the new “Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3”.

London Marathon 2026 saw records broken, but one pair of shoes stood up among the pairs worn by the elites this year: the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3.

The Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 might be the most exciting racing shoe yet, but it’s impossible to get right now without spending thousands.

In the late 1980s, a former University of Arizona distance runner became obsessed with trying to understand the limits of human endurance. Armed with a programmable calculator, a yellow legal pad and a background in physiology,

RECORD-BREAKER Sabastian Sawe made history in London on Sunday in his new £450 adidas super shoes as he became the first person to run the marathon in under two hours. The 31-year-old Kenyan was