What nike spike to go with for xc this fall??

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12 years ago 08/16/2011 5:01pm EDT

This is my last hs xc season. I know it's not a HUGE deal but I'm just trying to decide what spike to go with this fall. Almost all my courses are mainly grass so I'm set on using a track spike since it seems all the guys in college do it. I don't mind sacrificing some durability if it means I can gain the lightness and fast feel of a plastic plated spike.

Anyways my options are:

Mamba

Matumbo

Victory

Victory XC (Ok rubber plate but I figured I would throw it in here)

I don't know what I want in terms of aggressiveness. I'm concerned the foam of the matumbo would wear out or decompress or something? idk. And is the victory just outright too aggressive? All my races are 5k

Please give me your opinions

12 years ago 08/16/2011 11:34pm EDT

re: NIKE SPIKE

I used Victories all through my senior year in high school last year. They were absolutely destroyed by the end of the season, but I felt like they did the job. Though, they do quite a bit of thrashing on the legs.

You're pretty much golden with victories or matumbos. Never tried mambas, so I couldn't really tell you. As for the vic XC's a just recently picked up a pair for college as 8ks and 10ks would suck in vics, just too aggressive for anything above a 5k in my opinion. Hope this helps.

12 years ago 08/17/2011 1:30am EDT

re: TheyCallMeStrider

TheyCallMeStrider wrote:
I used Victories all through my senior year in high school last year. They were absolutely destroyed by the end of the season, but I felt like they did the job. Though, they do quite a bit of thrashing on the legs.
You're pretty much golden with victories or matumbos. Never tried mambas, so I couldn't really tell you. As for the vic XC's a just recently picked up a pair for college as 8ks and 10ks would suck in vics, just too aggressive for anything above a 5k in my opinion. Hope this helps.

Bekele uses Victories, yes Victories, for all his 5k's and 10k's. Not that anyone on this site can compare to him (hell, only like 4-5 men in the world can) but just something I had to point out. I have Victory XC's as well, I think they're decent, but they're really more like Matumbos. I'm gonna give the Zoom Forever XC 3 a try, mostly because they're Nike ID-able, and I've heard a lot of promising things about the 2's. Anyone else?

12 years ago 08/17/2011 2:11am EDT

re: NIKE SPIKE

depends. If your races are mostly grass go with victories or mambas. Plastic plates on concrete or dirt kind of sucks. Go with the victory XC's a couple oz in XC isn't going to change much, besides the XC's are friggin light still.

12 years ago 08/17/2011 12:24pm EDT

re: happy feet

Are the victory xc's more aggressive than the matumbos or are they about the same? I don't want my calves to be dead but I think I need a bit of aggressiveness that the vic's have to keep me on my toes and running fast when it counts.

My courses will just have tiny stretches of pavement for a couple of the meets probably.

Tumbos or Victories? I guess I'll just eliminate mambas

12 years ago 08/17/2011 1:29pm EDT

re: NIKE SPIKE

I didn't like Vic XC's, so I would stay away from those. Vics and Matumbos are great, either would work fine. And your calves won't be trashed, you will be fine to heelstrike if you have to. Heel striking on golf courses is fine. But I would bring back the Mamba's. They're a great spike, and I would really reccomend them, they're 3.9-4.0 oz? So being light enough isn't an issue. And they are mad for steeple so they'd be great for XC.

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