What shoes you wearing now and what next?

The Saucony triumph 20 are 89 euro on sportshoes.com, a few sizes left in mens and womans. Just put 500 mile on pair without fault.

Also the Saucony axon 3, great shoe, priced at 63 euro on sports shoes, I put a few hundred miles on pair last year, fantastic shoe.

Looking at buying the Hoka Mach 6. I have a Me2You voucher that I want to use but can't find anywhere to buy them yet!

The Sports Room have them but can access the card over the phone error is coming up for them.

Anywhere else?

Thanks

Did a Hoka try on their cielo x1 shoes last night with Rubhub over in Ashtown. My first time to ever wear a 'supershoe' and was worth it for the experience. Honestly would be pointless me getting a pair, you'd want to be doing sub 5min K's to see any benefit, accorded to those more knowledgeable who were there.

Felt very weird, slightly unstable, I wear Novablast 3's currently, but undoubtedly made me quicker. I might gain double digit seconds over a 5 or 10K. Did I feel a bounce and energy return...again and it's my running style but coming from the novablast, which when I PB'ed my Parkrun time in their first outing, there wasn't a huge extra for me. Couldn't even imagine wearing them for a full marathon. Again, from those more knowledgeable there, Nike won't be worried by them.

Considering I'd get a pair of novablast 3's and Nimbus 25's for the same price on asics outlet, that just makes more sense for me. In saying all that, one pair were bought last night, so one person felt they are worth the price.

Fairplay to Hoka and the Runhub for putting on events like this, cost €5 to book which I then spent in the store, pizza afterwards and a gift from Hoka, had a about 1 in 30 chance of winning a pair of Hoka's so win win. Runhub do these events fairly regularly (my second) so give them a follow.

The novablast 3 are a comfortable daily shoe but absolutely rubbish in the wet, ice rink material. Hopefully the 4 is better.

This is probably a question where the answer depends on the individual; I have been running for about 3 years and heading towards the big 50. In the last year I have been able to run more consistently and do a range of sessions, as a result my times have improved. I do 5km up to half marathon.

For a race I run in saucony endorphin speed 3 and for all training runs I have saucony triumph 20/21.

My question for experienced runners is do they think a change in shoe for race days would help in terms of times; as a gauge of where I am at for 5km I have gone from 22 min to 19min 30 with the goal of trying to break 19min. For 10 miles I have gone from 78 to 68 min and I have only done one half marathon but hoping to break 1hr 35min this year.

If you’re running a 19:30 5k, but a 1:35 Half, the weight and economy gains from a carbon shoe would definitely help you, especially over the longer distances - the Endorphin Pro 3 (on a sale price now that the 4 is out) would be a great shout I’d say.

easily yep. Punch in your 5k time to the McMillan calculator online, and it’ll give you a very good guide for other race distances (assuming you did a training block for it obviously)

It says low 1:30’s - you could target a sub 1:30 for sure

https://www.mcmillanrunning.com/dashboard/

The answer is very simple, if you want to improve your 5k and 10k then buy a pair of Nike Vaporfly or Alphafly, 90% of athletes see immediate improvement, light years ahead of the Speed 3.

I agree Re the Tempo, but if myself and almost all my clubmates are anything to go by, the Tempo’s probably cost them a lot of money to replace so many pairs when they split.

I sent a pair of tempos back after 22mths for a free replacement.

I saw that as well via an email from them (btw they were offering an extra 10% off today), but I got a pair of Pumas last year and sent them back because they were too narrow. I went to the 2 sports shops in town to try them out but they had none in stock. All the reviews I read said mentioned their narrowness so I didn't order them.

I did get pair of Nike Invincible for 126.00, I have been wondering about them for a while but didn't want to pay full price. However, they might go back as well, but couldn't resist.

I could be wrong but I thought they had that return policy on all shoes

This is probably not the right thread but anyone know of high heel runners.

Heel drop it is called but most runners don't say the heel drop but look like they are high but when you get them they are not as expected.

I don't run but have arthritis in front of my ankle and my foot doesn't move up at the front so it it hard walking up hill. With a higher heel drop this would help as it make a the slope less of an incline and more level.

Sorry to go on and I don't go to shops to try runners out.

Easy enough to find the drop on all runners through their website or decent shoe websites. Some even offer a filter based on it like below. I've flat feet so like a drop of 8mm or more so often use it.

I am looking to see thoughts on the Speed 3s for racing. Bit of background and history

I ran in the Speed 1s when they first came out. Find them pretty good and still have them.

Then I moved to the Pro 2s. I find in both of these they benefit me hugely pace wise, but once I get to around 14 miles or so, I get very sore ankles. Like I need to stop and walk, the pain is unbearable. I would over pronate a bit so I think maybe its that somehow.

I purchased the Pro 3s late last year as got them on a good BF deal. But after a mile or two in them, that pain came back. I have since gone back to the Pro 2s and again fine in those.

I cant seem to find the Pro 2s for sale anywhere now at all. And cos the Pro 3s dont work, I wont be going for them.

So looking to see how anyone who has run in Pro 2s and has moved to the Speed 3s, how did you find it? Did you feel much difference in speed, is the Winged Nylon Plate as good as the Carbon Plate or did you notice a drop off in performance?

I also read that the speed 3s were bad. I have the 2s and get the same problems as you, but I don't have it with the pro 3s

I have mixed feelings about the Speed 3. They're not as fast as the first two versions but they are probably a bit more versatile. I mainly use them for easy runs which isn't really what they're intended for.

I wouldn't recommend them to replace the Pro 2. They're nowhere near as fast.