Customer Reviews Brooks Adrenaline GTS 16

These shoes are suitable ONLY if you walk in them & avoid running. As a running shoe they are a disaster. Brooks made them stiffer & harder all round which makes for a jarring ride, injury & lots of pain. Starting with the sole, it is hard, even after 150 miles & several weeks of just daily use it is still H-A-R-D. Added to this the heel has been reshaped & gives a jarring foot strike unlike the previous GTS15 which felt very comfortable indeed. Overall the shoe is stiff & even the collar around the ankle is harsh & inflexible causing aches & pains on longer runs. This is in contrast to the previous series, the GTS14 & 15, both of which were very good indeed. Rather they are a return to the awful GTS13s which felt like they were made of wood compared to the excellent GTS12 of the previous year. I've ditched my GTS16s as running shoes & bought 2 pairs of the previous GTS15s to last me through to October 2016 when hopefully the GTS17 will come out & Brooks gets back to something like the GTS15. If not then I will be wearing a different shoe maker.