Good to hear Jon. My only slight issue is to get off road it’s about 1 mile on road, which I’m not sure how they’ll cope.
Same for me. They feel comfortable on pavement, don’t roll or slip.
A quick question regarding trail shoes- my running shoes are support shoes so they have supported insoles to prevent over-pronation.
I realise that a lot of people don’t really believe in the effectiveness of gait analysis and support shoes etc but for the minute I’m happy to believe in it’s effectiveness.
However, would this really be necessary for trail running anyway? If when trail running or fell running my foot is rarely striking in the same way twice, is over-pronation likely to be an issue or can I just ignore it and buy a pair of ‘neutral’ shoes?
For info, I’ve had a pair of support shoes to prevent overpronation for about two years now doing 30-40k a week road running and no serious injuries.
Having spent money twice on gait analysis and then bought slightly more expensive shoes shoes which helped with my over-pronation I’m wondering this as well. Both times the shoes in question gave me shin splints initially and I had to spend a couple of weeks bedding them (and my shins) in gently afterwards.
This hasn’t occurred with the trail running shoes, probably for the reasons you describe.
I’m tempted to buy a ‘normal’ uncorrected pair of running shoes to find out if the gait analysis is worth anything at all. (And it’s just occurred to me that I had two pairs of bog-standard trainers prior to the ‘overpronation’ pairs and they caused me no problems at all through quite a few tri/duathlons.)