Mike Guillory had never worn a Brooks. Twenty years covering sneakers, and not one pair. Brooks sent him the Adrenaline GTS 10, and it has not gone back in its box since. It lives by the front door and gets worn once or twice a week, which he calls a rotation-killer.
That is a strange outcome for a stability running shoe from 2009.
What Brooks actually brought back
The Adrenaline GTS 10 released in 2009 as a performance shoe. GTS is Brooks’ label for its support models and stands for “go-to support,” which is why the heel carries a Go-To Series badge alongside the Brooks badge. In 2009 that meant a shoe built to keep a runner’s stride from collapsing inward.
Brooks reissued it on February 19 at $170 in unisex sizing, with six colorways, and added more on May 7. It arrives into a market where retro mesh runners from ASICS and New Balance are the default casual shoe, and Brooks has the credibility to be there without inventing anything.
The upper is the 2009 shoe
Light mesh with synthetic overlays wrapping the toe box and running up the lateral and medial sides. Oval laces through eyelets punched into synthetic panels so nothing tears through the mesh. A plush mesh tongue, thick enough to feel like padding and not thick enough to get in the way, carrying a Brooks badge that reads Adrenaline GTS 10.
Inside, the lining shifts to a tightly woven mesh with a satin finish, softer against the foot than the open weave up top. Under the insole the strobel is foam rather than board, which is a small thing you only notice when a shoe feels better than it should.
The midsole is the 2026 shoe
This is the change that turns a stability runner into a lifestyle shoe. The Adrenaline GTS 10 gets a full slab of Brooks’ DNA Tuned nitrogen-infused foam, and Brooks left it exposed rather than encasing it in an EVA carrier.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. Most shoes in this category wrap their good foam in a firmer shell, so the soft part never fully compresses. Here the foam expands and contracts on its own, which is why the shoe is comfortable from the first step with no break-in. A torsion bar handles the stability the GTS name promises.
The outsole is conventional, rubber at the forefoot and the wear zones, nothing exotic.
Sizing and colorways
True to size, including for wide feet. The mesh has real stretch and the shoe molds with wear.
$170, unisex sizing. Brooks currently lists it in Coconut Milk/BlueLolite/Silver (154), Black/Ebony/Silver (047), Quiet Grey/Black/CoralRose (066), Wood Thrush/Cub/Soybean (262), Black/Ebony/Aquarius (009), Canary Green/Stone/Sunny Lime (096), White/Coconut Milk/Smoke (159), Bronze Green/Raffia/Coral (372) and Dusty Yellow/Neo Yellow/Grey (713).
Mike has the White/Dazzling Blue/Breeze pair, style 100058-148, which is already sold out at Brooks. When he checked the site while filming, no colorway had a full size run left, and that is the part worth paying attention to. A running brand with no lifestyle history and no hype apparatus is selling through a reissue at $170 on the strength of the shoe.
Why this one lands
The mesh runner has been the default casual shoe for a few years now, and most of what fills that lane is a performance silhouette from a brand that also sells you a story. Brooks does not have the story. It has been a running company since 1914 and it never built a lifestyle arm to speak of.
What it has instead is a foam it knows how to use and an archive of shoes that were engineered before anyone thought of them as fashion. Pulling the Adrenaline GTS 10 forward and giving it a better midsole is the least cynical version of a retro release, and Mike’s reaction is the evidence. He is not a runner shopping for support. He is a sneaker person who put on a shoe and stopped reaching for anything else.
For more, see our Brooks coverage.
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