 folks the last shot you just saw was from about 4 30 p.m. got my run-in in the Adidas Ultra Boost shoes thanks to Bud I am driving back home after a video shoot in the mountains and I'm gonna go back to the shed or maybe just the patio give you my initial impressions of the Adidas Ultra Boost anyway one of those days folks just living living well living high up in the Rockies all right hope you're doing well folks it's Monday ooh comment of the week uh-oh back at the recording studio that was a nice sunset nice sunset up in the mountains okay I went for a run earlier my first run ever in an Adidas running shoe I remember when I was in high school these shoes and that frankly is the only exposure I've ever had to Adidas shoes but they were basketball shoes so I think Adidas has come so far in their in their running shoe department nobody in high school or college ever really dreamt about running in Adidas running shoes it was always Nike or Asics or New Balance or Brooks but Adidas has picked up their game I think they have realized that there is a market to be made here in the running shoe community and so this guy is the Adidas Ultra Boost my initial impressions after one run now I will give a full review after about 50 miles so bear with me but my initial impression is comfort it's like running on a cloud you know what I mean and that is why Bud my buddy who sent me this shoe two days ago three days ago thank you Bud he told me like listen this is going to be a great recovery shoe and Bud you are exactly right I would never wear this shoe up on a mountain up in the 14ers that's what these two shoes are for which arrived a couple days ago the Solomon Ultras and the Las Portiva Tempesta GTX who that's a mouthful this guy it's it's it's very a lot of cushion see that right there a lot of cushion right there but I would never take it up into the mountains there's not quite enough support in the upper and that is probably the highlight of this shoe but maybe maybe I love the upper it's a knit upper which means it's like putting on a slipper you know when you put your slipper on in the morning and you're getting out of bed and you're like haha yes I can walk around my house when it's a you know what I when my feet hurt a little bit or my legs hurt a little bit that's what this knit upper does it just feels like a slipper and it's beautiful my initial impression is I love the shoe it was great to run in today on the roads once again I wouldn't really run in this on the trails to really ever because it just doesn't it doesn't have the lugs on the bottom the lugs are not really there and I give a big thumbs up okay but one thing one thing I would change about this shoe I can already tell already is that it actually is a little heavy I feel like it could be I don't know what the weight is I'll try and look that up but I feel like it could be quite a bit lighter if they basically this is on the upper here where you lace this the shoe this plastic here I frankly think could be removed it allows you to cinch the shoes down a little bit tighter but I just don't know if this plastic is necessary and then same with this I don't know if it's a it's like a rubber plastic composite here on the heel it's just like I just don't know if it's necessary for this type of shoe when you're not really running on trails or rocks it's just like really hard and I think it's kind of heavy so I think they could reduce the weight of this shoe that's my only kind of feedback to Adidas about the Ultra Boost and I bet they're working on it I bet their next version will be even lighter it's not that heavy but I that's just a little a little thing to think about changing Adidas so it was fun to run in thank you bud for providing running shoes I am beyond beyond grateful for three pairs of shoes in the last 10 days or whatever two weeks I just like you know that you guys know I'm running a lot especially if you follow me on Strava or you watch the vlogs about the racing and I'm not I'm not a sponsored athlete so you know it's like frankly you I'm running races to attempt to win some money sometimes and using that money that I win to take care of the family but then to also redeploy the cash to buy more running shoes because and like you know all the other stuff that goes into ultra running gels and mostly gels and baby food and because you know it does cost money to do this sports not as much as other sports but it does cost money so having these bud is clutch like it you've relieved me a little bit of the need to buy a road recovery shoe for the next let's say three to four months like this guy I could probably get three to four months out of this guy no problem just running around on my recovery days here in Denver Colorado love you guys that is the vlog this is not a shoe review channel don't worry don't worry we're still doing the vlog but shoes keeps showing up at my door and I'm just like see beauty work card love each other