Gear Review – Minimalist Trail Shoe Showdown – New Balance MT110 v’s Brooks Pure Grit
Guest reviewers Chris Wight* and Phil “Spud” Murphy** have teamed up to give us their thoughts on two of the hottest minimalist trail shoes out in the market at the moment. Over the last month both reviewers have been doing the majority of their running in either the New Balance MT110 or the Brooks Pure Grit. iRunFar has … Read more
Gear Review – Asics Kayano 18′s v Brooks Trance 11′s
Next week sees the 4th running of the Narrabeen All-Nighter up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. This is a 1.5km out and back 12 hour and 100km race run entirely on the footpath around the lake. When I first had a crack at this race in its inaugural year I wore a pair of … Read more
Should The Other Shoe Companies Give Up Now? – Salomon S-LAB Sense (aka Kilian’s Shoe!)
Our colleagues over at iRunFar have done it again! Bryon has managed to get his hands on something very few of us have seen yet. Yep thats right, the worlds best trail runner Kilian Jornet is making his winning shoe available to us mortals ! And Bryon can’t contain himself! First worn when he romped … Read more
The First ‘Dry-Run’ – Salomon SpeedCross 3s
Here at Ultra168, we’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on some SpeedCross 3s and gave them more of a ‘wet-run’ this morning on the trails of Mosman. While not a ‘full review’ (we need to put 100′s more kms in them yet!), here are some initial thoughts. Built as a racing shoe, it … Read more
Gear Review: Inov8 Roclite 295
My passion for reviewing shoes continues this week as we look at the beefier and chunkier Roclite 295s from Inov8. The reason for trying this shoe was simple. I love the Talon 190s and the F-lite 195s, but for me they’re very much a racing shoe which I use for 50km and below. So still … Read more
Gear Review – Inov8 F-Lite 195s
Now that I’ve had a chance to get some decent kilometres into these shoes, I thought it high time to post a more in-depth review of these wonderful shoes and what they’re like over the hard-packed trails of the GNW. I feel as though I’ve fully worn these in now, having clocked up a few … Read more
UPDATE – Initial thoughts / review of Inov-8 F-Lite 195
Today’s run with Darrel was a good test for these new addition’s to the Bleakman household. The Mooney Mooney to Patonga leg has it all in terms of trail running; uphills, downhills, fire-trail and technical all thrown into one lovely 25km run. Initially I was going to do the return leg, but waking up this … Read more
Gear Review coming soon – Inov8 F-lite 195
I think I need to seek help with my running shoe addiction, plus my wife is getting slightly annoyed at the stock pile of trainers that now dominate the area outside our back door. But aside from these minor issues, yesterday I took delivery of what I think (and hope) will be the shoe that … Read more
