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Saucony Guide: one name, two speeds

The Guide has for years been Saucony’s steady companion: the stability shoe alongside the softer models, meant for runners whose foot rolls inward. But this page shows two very different faces of that name — and the title reveals which one you have.

The first face is the ongoing running line: the Guide 14, 15 and beyond, with sleek mesh and a calm, modern midsole. These are current training shoes, built to log miles. The second face is the ProGrid Guide 7: a stability shoe from the early 2010s that Saucony recently pulled from the archive and reintroduced as a fashion model. Look at it up close and the era bursts out — a cage of metallic piping over the mesh, progrid across the midsole wall, and on the flank the river logo with the three dots that the whole Saucony family wears.

That a mid-range stability shoe from ten years ago now serves as a style object fits a broader pattern you see on this site more often: the Triumph is enjoying the same second life at Saucony, and brands like Asics are doing it with their own archives. The sobriety is the attraction — see also the Shadow 5000 for the older Saucony heritage.

Choosing practically is simple here. Want to run: take the highest Guide number you find; that’s the current generation. Want the archive look: search for ProGrid Guide 7 in the title, possibly with Hi Octane as the model name of the recent drops.

On this page you can see which versions of the Saucony Guide are currently hottest according to the Hypescore, from which price they’re available and in how many shops they’re in stock.