Appreciate the honesty. Intuitively we all know such high stack/bouncy shoes shouldn't fare well in this kind of terrain (especially with shallow lugs) but shoe companies have been on a quest to prove us wrong by equipping elites with super shoes and acting like it's the plates who make them run fast on technical trails.
These ASICS look like road shoes with some overlays and a beefier outsole. Adidas and Hoka made new shoes specifically for trails, and still there have a learning curve to use them. Not going to invest in those ASICS..
Here in Colorado it’s challenging to find a use case for the MetaFujis. I bought them knowing this as it is a very cool concept, albeit with limited applications. Settled on faster rolling gravel roads and smooth single track with very little elevation ascent or descent. That’s Eastern Colorado - the Great Plains! And seriously, when running the 200-mile Cowboy 200 in November 2022 across across Northern Nebraska, it would have been the perfect shoe instead of the Hoka Tecton X.
Exactly. High stack height is not required for softer ground. Hard trails, gravel paths, fire roads etc...perfect. But lake district needs an inov8 type shoe.
When comparing watches, I think it'd be fair to use the same strap for all of them in future. Since they're all changeable and you can use the same base weight etc
Don't you find that a lot of race route planners seem to insert one of those doom diversions taking you away from the finish at the end? Always a big test of mental resilience when you're really feeling it!
This one definitely got me. And I kind of knew it was coming, too. I get why they did it here. It's a much more spectacular finish doing it the way they did but boy did it almost bring out Full Grumpy while I was running it 😂
You shouldn't have used these shoes on the technical terrain. Theres other ASICS options better suited to technical terrain. Its just common sense and by now well documented thus.
Appreciate the honesty. Intuitively we all know such high stack/bouncy shoes shouldn't fare well in this kind of terrain (especially with shallow lugs) but shoe companies have been on a quest to prove us wrong by equipping elites with super shoes and acting like it's the plates who make them run fast on technical trails.
These ASICS look like road shoes with some overlays and a beefier outsole. Adidas and Hoka made new shoes specifically for trails, and still there have a learning curve to use them. Not going to invest in those ASICS..
Here in Colorado it’s challenging to find a use case for the MetaFujis. I bought them knowing this as it is a very cool concept, albeit with limited applications. Settled on faster rolling gravel roads and smooth single track with very little elevation ascent or descent. That’s Eastern Colorado - the Great Plains! And seriously, when running the 200-mile Cowboy 200 in November 2022 across across Northern Nebraska, it would have been the perfect shoe instead of the Hoka Tecton X.
Theres a documentary on these shoes on ASICS Europe that you can watch, why they made it.
Exactly. High stack height is not required for softer ground. Hard trails, gravel paths, fire roads etc...perfect. But lake district needs an inov8 type shoe.
Yeah, I went into this knowing they probably wouldn't be ideal but I really wanted to have tested that for real.
Using the Matafuji on my canal path runs and they are superb! Like you I wouldn’t push them on anything too extreme but it’s not what they are for
yeah, think they're good for exactly that kind of thing.
I’m always intrigued on what the better shoes are when testers say “these aren’t the best”
When comparing watches, I think it'd be fair to use the same strap for all of them in future. Since they're all changeable and you can use the same base weight etc
Don't you find that a lot of race route planners seem to insert one of those doom diversions taking you away from the finish at the end? Always a big test of mental resilience when you're really feeling it!
This one definitely got me. And I kind of knew it was coming, too. I get why they did it here. It's a much more spectacular finish doing it the way they did but boy did it almost bring out Full Grumpy while I was running it 😂
Batterylife between fenix and enduro is so big when using the navigation screen - then the big batterydrain is the cpu when using that....
You shouldn't have used these shoes on the technical terrain. Theres other ASICS options better suited to technical terrain. Its just common sense and by now well documented thus.
We like to test these things for ourselves.
@@TheRunTestersmaybe as an influencer, doing a bit of research can help.
Please name the ones you think are better