The Mizuno Wave Precision 9
September 2, 2009
Look Fast/Feel Fast.
Mizuno Wave Precision 9
Shoe profile:
Neutral shoe; built after a low profile design; while offering cushioning in a smooth fast ride.
Features and benefits:
Mizuno Wave - smooth ride engineered rubber parallel wave provides optimum cushioning and flexibility in a performance package.
SmoothRide - engineering approach to minimize the rapic acceleration and deceleration of the foot during transition, creating the smoothes ride possible.
AP midsole – acceleration polymer, lightweight responsive midsole compound with good durability.
AIRMesh – provides the utmost in breathability and comfort of the upper.
X10 – the most durable carbon rubber that allows for longer wear in high impact areas and supplements traction at heel strike.
Weight: 280g
Running with it:
Since this is a cushioning and a neutral shoe, but still fairly light; I have decided to limit its use to runs that are 10kms and below. Since I over pronate, my neutral shoe threshold is somewhere between the distances of 10 and 15 (depending on the shoe).
Having been used to heavy trainers, this shoe is a great welcome to speed workouts and shorter distance runs.
Upper: the shoe doesn’t overheat because the upper is dominantly mesh. The heel counter hugs the heel perfectly. Even the toe box / forefoot area is very aerodynamic perfect to pierce thru air for faster turnover.
The way the heel is cupped is like how a recaro car seat supports and gives stability to the driver.
Similarly, that is how the heel is supported with this shoe.
Midsole: because this uses an AP midsole which is lightweight and responsive; coupled with the smooth ride wave plate, makes this shoe a superb cushioned shoe border lining to the light weight category.
Outsole: the midfoot plate is a hybrid of TPU materials as shown in the encircled portion.
The portion located under the arch is more of hard plastic while the portion opposite to it is softer – with this design, the shoe still gives tortional rigidity without trading off weight.
The forefoot area.
The grey part or the encircled part is made of softer rubber inserts. This encourages your toe-off to the more proper direction under the ball of the foot, and then leaning more to the lateral (towards the pinky toe) side.
Brick training: closing a 5k run at 31min, considering that we did a 50k bike ride prior to that up and down antipolo. A good balance and mix for your tempo run without sacrificing the cushioning and weight. Impressive shoe.
Colors available (you have a choice of loud and louder):
White / black / orange
Zinc / lime / black
SRP: 4,295.00
