Find The Best Trail Running Shoes To Fit Your Needs
There are many benefits for choosing the right trail running shoes, but most important is you don’t want a trail running race or a long training run to be cut short due to uncomfortable feet or blisters.
Here are some tips on how to compare trail running shoes and find the best shoe for your needs.
1. What is your foot type?
If you aren’t sure of your foot type—neutral, supination, or pronation—It would be wise to go and have your shoes fitted in a specialty running store, and take a similar method to finding your trail running shoes as you would for road running shoes.
2. Try on a range of trail running shoes
It is important to test a variety of different brands and sizes (not just your favourite brand) so to find the one that fit your feet and see how they feel, also there is always new trail shoes coming onto the market and many brands shoes can vary slightly between models.
3. Where will you be trail running?
If are you planning on running on flat gravel trails or more rugged and rocky single track trails, there are many different styles of shoes and features to consider; the traction of the shoe, toe box for how much room you have to arch and flex your feet or should you stub your toes on a rock or tree root is there protection for your feet? The environmental conditions you will be running in is also important as would you be running in cold, snowy conditions and along trails with many muddy puddles compared to dry, sandy climates. This would be impact whether you would like a waterproof pair of shoes or shoes with micromesh which help keep sand, and dust from getting to your shoes.
The support and cushioning your shoe provides is too essential when out on the trails as this will be dependent on the protection you would like plus considering the terrain you are running and your agility out on the tracks.
4. How far will you be running?
If you are planning on undertaking long distance ultra distance running then you will likely be using your trail running shoes for long periods of time. After a few hours your feet will generally swell up slightly and a having a slightly larger shoe size might be necessary, this may also possibly affect the weight of the running shoe you pick or maybe the type of laces from standard laces to the modern one-pull lace systems.
So whether you are researching for trail running shoes in store and online, there are many different styles to choose from and dependent on which activity you would be using them we hope these tips help you when you are looking to buy a pair of trail running shoes.
What tips would you recommend?