How Soft You Say? We RANK Shoes by Softness and How it Can Differ by Runner

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
2:06 - Defining "softness" in shoes
14:23 - Our 10th Pick, the firmest shoe
17:15 - Our 9th Pick
21:11 - Our 8th Pick
22:48 - Our 7th Pick
26:38 - Our 6th Pick
30:12 - Our 5th Pick
36:46 - Our 4th Pick
40:20 - Our 3rd Pick
43:21 - Our 2nd Pick
49:29 - Our Top Pick, the softest shoe
1:00:30 - Wrap-up
If you're in the running shoe world at all, you know cushion and softness are the name of the game. Every shoe brand claims that each new version of their shoes is softer than the last, but what does it even mean for a shoe to be "soft"? How do you compare the softness of one shoe to another? In this episode, Nathan, Matt, and David do just that. They take a list of 10 of our favorite shoes from the past year or two (like the Brooks Hyperion Max, #AsicsNovablast4, #Nike Alphafly 3, and more) and see how their cushioning stacks up. No spoilers here, so you'll have to tune to see how the rankings turned out!
Also see our first ranking episode on stability
• Stable for Who? We RAN...
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