The major Chinese shoe that has caused a lot of buzz is the Li-Ning Fedian 6 Elite, that is the shoe Suguru wore for his PB, FOD mentions as one of the best he's had and Yowana also PB'd in them. I will be buying that soon. I am not sure if the others are any good but if you are thinking of a brand, Li-Ning is the one that I'd go for.
Yep, that's also the shoe FOD had a stinker in a race with. I do think any one race performance is not just about one single factor, there are other variables at play every time. Which is why I would have expected Andy to want to try to test that by racing in them again.
It was a Li-Ning shoe that I got with sizing that didn't make sense, the numbers for UK/US/Chinese did not agree with each other but the other shoes from Li-Ning fitted fine.
Worth noting that every study on supershoes has shown very wide range of responses across the sample of runners they have been tested on, in terms of running economy improvement. So even if one runner does have a superb or terrible race in a shoe, that's just a single data point. What really matters is whether you run well in the shoe or not, and no amount of shoe reviews are going to answer that.
Yeah I agree on that, we all have our own physiology and biomechanics. Based on lots of reviews, I went with Metaspeed Sky Paris recently and although it is good, it isn't mind blowing, and that is just me by the way.
Similarly, I absolutely love Puma shoes and they work well for me especially DNE3 (4 pairs currently) and Fast-R3 (2 pairs) but went with DN4 and it is a dud, and that was based on a review.
Why does Jake think running 250km a week is the only thing that holds him together when he can't run more than a few km now without being in pain or injured. The guy is seriously deluded and is going to cause himself a big injury unless he changes his mindset
Chronic overtraining surpresses the bodies natural inflammatory response and pain signalling pathways, when you inevitably get injured and have to stop running your body goes into repair mode and you begin to be more aware of those little niggles.
unfortunately now they’ve been injured they’ll always be sensitive and aware of the area that got injured.
Canaan Solomon, the latest runfluencer to pop up on socials seems to do an awful lot of crying and begging for a guy with the tagline don’t cry don’t beg
"Oh these are good but not a patch on the Superblast or Megablast" - We dont have £200 to spend on a daily shoe, mate.
Its such a stupid opinion and just confirms after watching one of their crap reviews a few months ago that there's no point going back.
I've now had 5 pairs of Qiaodan Leili 1.0 (based off of watching and messaging Jog On Crago - actually the best shoe YouTuber out there by a country mile). Great durability, and felt heaps better than the Superblasts that I paid 3x as much for!
I bought another pair a few weeks ago as we go into winter and shoes get killed by the weather, at around $100AUD, Superblast 3s are currently $340AUD.
Whilst I completely agree with the points Moose has raised on IRP about many people needing the help of a quality shoe store to guide their purchase - if you don't and are willing to take a small risk on the sizing being wonky (plenty of data online to correlate to), then you're getting a great shoe for 1/3 the price.
Fundamentally - as I'm sure they'll be reading this - when they actually do go for a run the Run Testers can try remove some bias and ask themselves if the Superblast is really 3x the shoe? Anyone with half a brain can tell you it's not, and no shoe can realistically get close for the price.
The account could have actually been so good if it stuck to it's original purpose, calling out influencers with a decent public profile who engaged in egregious material breaches, not random people with 200 hundred followers who unthinkingly share an automated strava graphic to their close friends indicating their 4:13 marathon was actually a 4:11.
Called out a girl who posted the graphic on a run- 25 minutes slower than her pb she was just posting the completion of a run and nothing in the caption about times- and they called her out and sent the minions. Lad needs to get a life.