Product Review: Saucony Amp Pro2 Recovery

Aug 14, 2011 by Greg Fowler

What is the most aggravating thing about children?  Nope, not the talking back.  Not the the messy rooms, either.  The most aggravating thing is out growing clothes, especially shoes, before they are worn out!

This situation is what leads me to this review of the Saucony Amp Pro2 Recovery shoe.  These are not running shoes, but, rather, post-running shoes.  Hence the term recovery shoe. These are not mine, but I did purchase them for my teenage son.  He had outgrown his Sanuks, a sandle that is very similar in style to the Amp, and asked for a pair of Amps as a replacement.

My son is a runner.  You may have read my references to runs with him in other posts.  He is also a member of the high school cross-country team.  One thing the team members seem to do is take off their running shoes as quickly as possible after runs and put on some sort of casual shoe.  I’m not sure if this is because they leave their running shoes in their lockers or what.  My son wanted the Amps for this purpose and for a casual school shoe.

I searched for Amps in Charlotte last weekend during my Newton hunt.  I could not find them, so we ordered them from Zappos.com about 4pm last Monday.  The shoes were on our doorstep about 1pm the next day.  Kudos to Zappos.

Bottom line here:  my son loves them.  They are very light weight (about 5.5 ounces) and, according to him, more comfortable than the Sanuks.  The back of them folds down so they can be used in what I would call “slipper mode” if you’d like.  He also received several positive comments about them from teammates.  That was probably his favorite feature.

You can read more about them at the Saucony website.