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Permalink Reply by Eric Orton on April 7, 2018 at 12:20pm

What distance and type of terrain do you mostly run? Have you looked at the Trail Talon by Inov8? I am not crazy about the new Trail Roc, but X Talon are great if you are on soft ground.

The Salomon S Lab sense are amazing minimal high performance shoe, but expensive, but worth it. Might be able to find them on sale?

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Permalink Reply by Charlie Mullane on April 7, 2018 at 2:32pm

Hi Eric thanks for the response. I am running about 6m and am working up to 13m this spring /summer. And the hope is to get back to 16-20m. I will look at the trail Talon by Inov8, are the Salomon zero drop? As all the shoes I have seen in the UK have a large drop. Somone told me to look at the Altra Superior, was hoping that someone had any feedback on these. Any ideas would be great. Many thanks

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Permalink Reply by Eric Orton on April 8, 2018 at 1:46pm

There are not many zero drop options, but Altra is one. They are wide and do not fit me well and tend to be kind of clunky. 

For your grass runs, you might really like the Inov8 X Talon line. They are wonderful shoes, very flexible and natural feeling.

The Salomon Sense Ultra are 4mm drop, but a wonderful fit.

I would suggest maybe looking at the Inov8, as you could find 2 shoes, one for road and one for grass - for the price of one Salomon.

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Permalink Reply by Charlie Mullane on April 7, 2018 at 2:34pm

Oh terrain, is mostly grass / and some road (to get there)

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Permalink Reply by Charlie Mullane on April 10, 2018 at 10:44pm

Hi Eric I will give the Inov8s a go. Cheers

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