Adidas has confirmed that the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 2, the $500 single-use marathon racer that launched in March 2026 in a polarising silver-and-red colourway, will land in a far wider release in a clean black-and-white build for the autumn marathon season. The new colourway is positioned as the volume drop for athletes preparing for September through November majors, including Berlin, Chicago, New York and Sydney, and will sit alongside the original launch palette on adidas.com and at speciality run retailers from late August.
The black-and-white build inherits the Pro Evo 2's full Lightstrike Pro midsole, the carbon-rod plate and the four-panel Rocketnit Future upper. Adidas has not adjusted the stack height or the geometry, and the launch weight remains identical to the silver pair: 138 grams in a UK 8.5, give or take a gram across the size run. What changes is the optical signature on race day; the head-turning chrome of the silver release is replaced by a matte black upper with a translucent sole rim, a look the brand's footwear team has previewed in athlete sample wear-testing through April.
The retail price holds firm at $500 in the United States and £430 in the United Kingdom, in line with the silver release. Adidas has framed the wide colourway as the model's first true mass-availability moment, conceding that the silver-and-red and other early colourways have effectively been resale-driven since launch. Stockholm-based testers and senior product managers reported in early April that the brand expects the autumn drop to clear faster than any super shoe in its history at full retail, even with retailers preparing limited per-customer caps.
Sitting alongside the Pro Evo 3, which broke through the 100-gram barrier at the London Marathon and is currently locked to elite distribution, the wide-release Pro Evo 2 effectively becomes the brand's flagship racer for amateur and sub-elite athletes through the autumn. The Adizero Adios Pro 4 continues to anchor the more durable end of the racing line, and the Boston 13 fills the daily-trainer slot, but the Pro Evo 2 in black and white now becomes the obvious one-shoe race-day pick for athletes targeting a single autumn marathon.
For amateur runners weighing the colourway against the silver original, the answer is largely cosmetic. Independent wear-testers including the Believe in the Run and Road Trail Run staff have already confirmed that the rideband and energy return are unchanged, and the new build inherits the same one-marathon design lifespan adidas has been transparent about since the original Pro Evo. The black-and-white drop arrives at a moment when the marathon super-shoe market is settling into a tighter top tier, and adidas's bid is to make the Pro Evo 2 the definitive choice for race day even as Nike, Asics and On all close the gap on weight and economy.