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Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby kfjatek » 27 Mar 2014 12:26

Need to get a pair in the next few weeks, to break them in before PL (the HM there is 90% off-road).

Currently looking at Innov-8s TrailRoc 255 - I've been using their road shoes (Road-X 255) for the last few months and they've been a revelation.

What are you using? Any other shoes I should be looking at?

The HM course is undulating, mainly on forest paths, also apparently includes some sand-like places where grip is at a premium.

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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Big_Show » 27 Mar 2014 12:58

I love my Inov-8 mudclaws. Got loads of use out of them, very comfortable too.

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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Sir Jibbenstein » 27 Mar 2014 13:31

Got a pair of Inov-8 terroc and a pair of salomon speedcross 3.

Inov-8's are great for pure off road on soft ground, but horrid on hard pack/tarmac paths. Speedcross 3 are amazing. Comfy on hard pack and excellent grip but in all but deep wet mud. Also have speed laces :D
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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Kevy427 » 27 Mar 2014 13:45

Inov8 Mudclaw 300’s. No need to break them in and I'm quicker in them, even on concrete. Tried Salomon Speedcross 3 GTX's and although I like some features such as the integrated tongue and speed laces, I found they were tight in the toe box and felt quite high in the heel (especially after being used to Inov8’s). Needless to say, I sold them on to an unsuspecting punter
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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Jack Hughes » 27 Mar 2014 18:22

I don't have a million shoes, so my inov8 xtalon 212s for anything that is non-Tarmac.

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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Lead Balloon » 27 Mar 2014 19:16

+1 for the xtalons. I really rate them


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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby TRIumphant » 27 Mar 2014 21:51

Newton Terra Momentus for me for general trail runs, but when it get really off road, or wet grass and hilly then it's the inov8's. It really does depend what you mean by off road


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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby kfjatek » 28 Mar 2014 09:19

TRIumphant wrote:It really does depend what you mean by off road


I've never run there, and the course description says "forest paths" as the prevailing surface.

Looking at X-talons now too, but it looks to me like the Trailrocs would be more versatile and will do better on more surfaces. Which could be an advantage, given that I don't know for sure what the surface is going to look like. Or it may be a case of me having made up my mind to a large extent before I actually asked the question in the first place.. Hmmmm... :|

Mudclaws would probably be *too* off-roady for this race - Innov8 themselves seem to value their hard surface performance at 1/5.

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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby Big_Show » 28 Mar 2014 09:40

I've done some fell races & XC with significant distances on tarmac (generally so they can get you to somewhere really messy...) and not had any problems with running on it in Mudclaws.

Buy one of each and try them all out. And a new bike.

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Re: Trail running shoes - what have you got?

Postby CCS » 28 Mar 2014 10:02

Jack Hughes wrote:I don't have a million shoes

Shame on you!!!!

I don't believe in trail shoes, much as I don't believe in running.
If however, I do venture offroad (for example along the track known as 'the muddy path that makes children cry' when I go up to Horsell common), then I wear my very oldest, grottiest trainers which have a heavy coating of mud, so as not to get my nice orange ones dirty.
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