I’ve promiseed myself that after my first Ultramarathon race, the next goal is a sub 4 on 34th Milo Marathon. I’ll be more serious on my training and as such, may even miss some road races so that I could concentrate and focus more on my training. I promise to log my training details to help fellow runners who are planning to break the 4 hour barrier, hoping that it will help them as well.
I’ve observed that all my 42km (four of them!) are not something I’m proud of. Yeah I did finish them all but always below my expectations. There’s always a part of me that is really dead set on improving my 42 km run. Signs of OCness? Hope not.
Three weeks ago, I met Cris Sabal (33rd Milo Marathon champion) and joked him if he could create a sample training program so that I could finally break the 4 hours barriel. The guy said yes but first suggested that I buy a race shoes. He said its not a good idea to use same road race shoes during training as they are heavier. I checked what shoes he was wearing that morning, a Mizuno Wave Aero 8. Weeks later, I bought myself a Mizuno Wave Aero 8 at their outlet in Bonifacio High Street. While I do not expect to be in same calibre as him, at least we have something in common 
Right now I’m training on either LunarGlide+,Adidas SuperNova and Nike Free; right off the bat I can say that I love Aero 8, for one because its the lightest running shoes I’ve ever worn. I tried this shoes several times in the oval and also tried once in the road. I noticed that its midsole is quite responsive and even felt a rock go through its outsole. I ran around DLSU-D campus and I observed that I could easily tell the difference between all the terrains I run on (asphalt, concrete, grass, rock trails, tiled bricks etc). Despite this feature, its extremely durable more so than any others I’ve worn. I was already able to run it over 50km on them and it seems to get better as I put more kilometers on it.
To be honest, I don’t think you can go wrong with Aero 8 if you’re looking for a racer shoes. From my experience, I’m very sensitive to what’s on my feet my body has a nagging tendency to let me know right away via minor injury if something on my feet is wrong. I could easily tell if I’ll have a nice running relationship with a shoes in 1 week of use that if I don’t feel comfortable with it, the relationship is cut fast. This shoes didn’t disappoint me.
- I must admit that the forefoot section is a bit narrow for my wide feet. They are very breatheable though due to wide mesh that covers the toe box and side walls of the shoes. So far I’m not getting any blisters so this is good.
- That wave like structure visible on all Mizuno shoes is what they call “wave plate technology”. The thermoplastic plate (see above) inserted into the midsole allows compression stiffness to be controlled. In theory, controlling this “stiffness” can be achieved by adding variation in its material properties, thickness, amplitude, and wave length of the WAVE plate insert. Cushioning and Stability feature of any Mizuno shoes can be achieved by playing around this bending stiffness. Hence if you check any Mizuno shoes (this feature is also available in its baseball, volleyball, golf, and other kinds of sport shoes), you will notice that each of their running shoes category (stability, neutral, cushion) has different wave plate design and composition.
- Mizuno Wave Aero 8
After BDM, this shoes will be my daily training buddy!
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RunningAtom
on Mar 3rd, 2010
@ 3:18 pm:
hmmnnn… very nice review. Will consider Wave Aero 8 on my window shopping and canvassing
takbongmayaman
on Sep 6th, 2010
@ 2:10 am:
Good day!
Re the mizuno wave aero 8, im planning to have my first 10km, and im eyeing to buy this model. would you say that this shoes is good for training?
what i know is that lightweight shoes are road race shoes?
Thank you