Besides RoadTrailRun, which shoe review sites actually have competitive runners?

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1 year ago 10/14/2022 3:58pm EDT

Curious. I do not mean to say you need fast/competitive runners to accurately review shoes - I do not necessarily believe that is the case - but I’m curious as to why they all seem to write for one site, whereas BELIEVE in the run tends to be quite slow runners (based on Strava). RoadTrail has a guy under 2:19 (I believe British), Boston’s Ryan Eiler who just ran 2:19, and several runners under 2:30 and/or competitive age-groupers.

Are most shoe reviewers just not competitive, or do they just flock to one site?

1 year ago 10/15/2022 12:14am EDT

re: CarbonPlatedHalfTights

The Run Testers on youtube has a 32 minute 10k guy.

1 year ago 10/15/2022 2:21am EDT

re: well,,,

As a slow hobby jogger I would rather watch a review by people running at my pace .The believe in the run crew are a perfect example.In the same breath I don't have any interest in watch reviews by people who are obviously run/walking there marathons

1 year ago 10/15/2022 8:47am EDT

re: CarbonPlatedHalfTights

DGR has a 2:22 marathoner

1 year ago 10/15/2022 9:18am EDT

re: 2

Probably 0.1% of runners are “fast”, so makes sense that most shoe reviewers won’t be.

The Doctors of Running have a couple fast guys though.

1 year ago 10/29/2022 4:19pm EDT

re: Blunt 1

Blunt 1 wrote:
As a slow hobby jogger I would rather watch a review by people running at my pace .The believe in the run crew are a perfect example.In the same breath I don't have any interest in watch reviews by people who are obviously run/walking there marathons

Hi Blunt, Sam Editor at RoadTrailRun. We have contributors in marathon range from 2:18 up to about 4 hours and we try to have a wide range of paces represented in each review. I tend to be on the slower end of things these days at my "age" so a bit above 1:40 for a half.

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