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Formerly a Bostonian, I get psyched around this time every year for the Boston Marathon, which will transpire on April 15. One thing that was the bane of my morning and evening commute was traveling on Beantown’s public transit line, a.k.a. the T.

Then I moved to NYC. With the exception of Red Sox games and St. Patrick’s Day, living in New York made me realize just how good I had it riding the Green Line (the oldest subway line of the T—and in America).

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Still, if you’ve lived in Boston, you know how infamously slow some of the trolleys run during rush hour. In 2014, the 4.1-mile “Race the T” had a human victor, the male runner coming in at 24:08, the Green Line’s B trolley (the line that runs from Boston College to Boston University) finishing behind him at 24:49. Which is why it’s only fair that Brooks is rolling out its 2019 Boston shoe with the tagline, “Just like the T, except faster, lighter, and on time.”

The T Launch 6 is tailing the release of the Shamrock special edition, which also used the Launch as a canvas to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. You could say the 2019 Boston shoe is somewhat of a departure from previous iterations which were patterned with lobstahs—er, lobsters. Instead the upper is printed with a map of the city’s public transit, and takes a nod at the Boston Athletic Association with a blue sole, heel collar, and tongue, and yellow overlay. Of course, there are still a few red clawed crustaceans hanging around. (Take a peek at other Boston-themed shoes for 2019.)



The Boston 2019 T Launch 6 is on sale March 28 at brooksrunning.com—Charlie cards to ride the T sold separately.

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Amanda Furrer Test Editor Amanda is a test editor at Runner’s World and was a middle-of-the-pack Emerson College cross country runner; she’s run the Boston Marathon consecutively since 2013.

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