Goodnight! What the hell were you thinking Brooks?? The Pure Flow 6 is easily as bad as the Saucony’s Kinvara 6. I gave my pair to the local clothes closet charity. Its like running in clogs! How do you go from making a wonderfully fantabulous shoe like the Ghost 10 to an absolute shoe wreck like the Pure Flow 6? It’s not that much of an exaggeration to say its like running in a wooden shoe. Its supposed to be “lightweight” and it comes in at 9.4 ounces. Yes I have a kitchen scale.

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So after I gave them away, tonight I ran in their competitor from New Balance, the Zante. I lucked out and found a pair of the originals in a shoe shop in Canada. They come in at 7.8 ounces. THAT’S lightweight. And soft…. you have incredible oneness with the ground, but really cushioned. I hadn’t appreciated them fully until I’d wasted my money on the Brooks. You can’t ask any more out of a shoe.

[Sunday 4/22 update. Did the Sunday morning “long run” in the Zante for an hour. With a gun to my head I couldn’t have done that in the Brooks. Feet felt even better after the run.]