Low riders Kinvara is a village in Ireland. The name means “head of the sea”. Which is of absolutely no relevance whatsoever to Saucony’s Kinvara TR trail running shoe. Fitting then, that there’s not much of a connection between the trail version of the Kinvara and the popular road going model, either. Rather than simply update the road going Kinvara with a rockplate toe protection and better grip – which may have been a winning upgrade in itself – Saucony…
Grit and bare it? Happily says TRM Editor, Chris Ord, who finds the new PureGrit2 trail shoes from Brooks remain well within the comfort zone. “The Brooks Pure Grit 2 is the best trail running shoe I’ve had the pleasure of running on”. That’s not me. That’s the Running Shoes Guru speaking (www.runningshoesguru.com). For my money, he’s not 100% on the money, but my foot is different to his. That said, and (assumed) anatomical differences aside, he’s still about 89%…
Just how wild is La Sportiva’s Cat? Guest reviewer and trail man from the north, Caine Warburton, gives us his view on the Italian Stallion’s current offering. One word…..Bomber! Bomber is a climbing term used to describe an anchor or hold that is so strong it will hold anything…fail safe. That’s the word that came to mind after my first run in the Wild Cats and it was coincidentally convenient as La Sportiva is a mountaineering company that was born…
Lucky Eights: The fact that the Cascadia is into its eighth model outing shows that Brooks is comfortable with the ‘when you’re onto a good thing…stick with it’ strategy. Many may recall that the Brooks shoe boffins lost their way around the 6’s (at least according to the commentator crowd – I actually found them okay) but regained a strong footing with the 7s. Here, in the next iteration, Brooks has simply reinforced the design positives of a shoe that…
Guest reviewer Caine Warburton offers up an early review of Inov8′s new Trailroc 245, the popular brand’s crack at catering to long course trail runners. Check out a review of it’s sister shoe the Trailroc 255 by NZ Editor Mal Law in edition #6 of Trail Run Mag’s zine downloadable at www.trailrunmag.com/zine. They’ve arrived and with pedigree – Inov8′s new Trailroc range and specifically the 245s are the shoes worn by the recent winners of the Pikes Peak Marathon and…
