About

Brooks Ghost

The Ghost is the shoe running stores recommend when someone asks for nothing special, and that’s a bigger compliment than it sounds. The American Brooks model is the neutral daily trainer par excellence: no guidance, no plate, no extreme stack height, just a sole that does what most runners need most days.

The name suits that stance. A good daily shoe shouldn’t be noticeable, and that ghostly unobtrusiveness is exactly what the model aims for. The cushioning comes from a foam that has been nitrogen-blown, which makes it lighter without sacrificing responsiveness, and under the foot there’s a carved groove that guides the transition from heel to toe. The brand name runs diagonally across the mesh on the side, with the model name printed small on the midsole beneath it.

Brooks is in the running world a brand apart: it makes almost exclusively running shoes and doesn’t have a meaningful lifestyle division. That explains why the models rarely show up on the street and successive generations follow each other calmly instead of trying to outshout one another.

Within the lineup the Brooks Glycerin is the softer, higher-stacked counterpart, while the Brooks Adrenaline takes the same starting point but adds support against inward-rolling feet.

On this page you can see which versions of the Brooks Ghost are currently hottest according to the Hypescore, the prices they start at, and how many shops have them in stock.