Developing a super track shoe followed, with British Olympian Josh Kerr securing a new Scottish, British and European indoor mile record in the prototype spike, Wire 8.Ī new addition to Brooks’ excellent Hyperion speed series, the highly cushioned Hyperion Max is a real crowd-pleaser. Combining their DNA Flash nitrogen-injected midsole foam with a carbon plate propelled Des Linden to win the 2018 Boston Marathon. In 2017, it joined the race for the best super shoe with the Hyperion Elite. It was the first running shoe to use EVA, replacing the slow-rebounding rubber in the midsoles of old, and put Brooks in a league with the other big names in running of the time.įast forward to today and Brooks remains at the forefront of performance running shoe innovation. Next came the Vantage, which proved so popular even the then US President Jimmy Carter was said to have ordered a pair.
It was only when running boomed in the seventies that Brooks entered the running shoe market: launching the perennially popular Villanova.
