Build the Best Trail Shoe Quiver 2025 // Salomon & Ultra Shoes

In this video, I dive into your trail running shoe quivers and review viewer-submitted lineups across training, recovery, and racing. From the norda 005 to the Salomon S/LAB Ultra François D’Haene edition, I share thoughts on how each shoe fits into a rotation and what makes them shine (or not) for trail runners. Whether you’re deciding on the right daily trainer, dialing in an ultra-distance setup, or curious how others mix brands and models, this episode is full of insights, comparisons, and honest discussion.

If you’re into trail running shoes, Salomon reviews, or running shoe rotations, you’ll find plenty of takeaways here to help shape your own quiver. Don’t forget to share your lineup in the comments so we can keep the conversation going!

👉 Best Cushioned Trail Running Shoes 2025 // Training & Ultra Distance Picks 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnck1GaPmkY&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 Best Trail Running Shoes 2025 // My Top 5 (With Comparisons & Q&A) 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGj2bpTfqQ&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIR2wJSHv49MjPAO3leo1wqH
👉 Salomon S/LAB Pulsar 4 Review // From SPEED Days to LONG RUNS 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfGaCg6YAtc&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 HOKA Mafate 5 FULL REVIEW // Do you want MORE ??? 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KotsQGhpHFE&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 100K Trail Running RACE Picks Q&A // Recovery // NEW in for test 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfrtNzgWZjw&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 La Sportiva Prodigio Max vs Pro // Does Bigger Cushion Mean Better Ride? 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQT4dhPO4U&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 La Sportiva PRODIGIO PRO vs Mount to Coast T1 // FULL COMPARISON 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBBB0YdVRoQ&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 THE NORTH FACE VECTIV PRO 3 – RACE Ready? // 100K ! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoQX7vblYPs&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 NIKE WILDHORSE 10 // Review on the RUN! // Workhorse or Wildhorse?? 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1chn9yv8B6k&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 On Cloudultra Pro // FULL REVIEW // 108K Race Tested !!! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-UWeR-MkeQ&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 Trail-tested: LONG RUN in norda 001 // RECOVERY in norda 008 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mClZzENT50s&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ
👉 Which is right for you? // NORDA 001 002 005 // insole SWAP ?!? 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nol8c1xd2BE&list=PL6d8pVmxEoIRAuFZNn0E2jt4eerhUoNhZ

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▶️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 Salomon lineup
05:49 S/LAB Ultra Glide updates?
13:26 Quiver for 300 miler????
19:37 Hoka Tecton X 3 squirrely?
22:00 Sizing comparison
28:41 Long ultra suggestions

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Hello, welcome back to Humble Running. Thank you for tuning in to my best of videos. And thank you to those who did watch until the end of the video, saw my requests to rate your quiver, maybe have a little fun. This is not a roast, of course. I did get a couple of submissions, so thank you very much for those. I think I have some good food for thought fodder for discussion when it comes to trail running shoes. So let’s just get right into it here. The first submission I got comes from Tim F. He gave me a selection of Salomon shoes to go over. First one he has, and he labeled this as his recovery shoe. This is the S/LAB Ultra Glide, which you have right here. Second shoe he gave me was the S/LAB Ultra. This is the Francois D’Haene version, FDH Let’s just go with that right now. And he calls that his all-around Swiss Army Knife. Third option he gave me was the Salomon S Lab Pulsar 4 shoe that I just did a full review on. So I guess he was watching my best of videos and my full review here. He calls this his Trail Tempo shoe. I have a shoe in the middle here. This is the S/LAB Genesis. I do not have the FDH version. Okay, so if you’re submitting shoes in the future for maybe rate my quiver format that I have going here, don’t be afraid to submit shoes that I have not run in. You might jog my memory and I might just throw in some comparable shoes. So I have this one kind of slotted in the middle here, although there’s probably more overlap between these two shoes in terms of maybe distance and duration. The FDH shoe we’ll talk about in a little bit. I had a little bit of back and forth with Tim there, so a little bit of discussion about that shoe. And I’ll kind of give my thoughts on it. I’m trying to see if I can get a pair of those for testing. He did mention in one of his follow-up emails that there is a version two of the S/LAB Ultra. Now this is the Ultra Glide, the S/LAB Ultra, the Francois D’Haene FDH shoe. He did mention there’s a version two available in France, but not in the United States. I’m not sure about that myself either. So I think he’s got a pretty good setup here. I think between those three shoes, this is, he mentions a shoe that has range for more, it’s certainly different. I got a lot of comments in my latest reviews, especially the Pulsar 4 and the follow-up Best of reviews. I feel like at 34-28, 34 at the heel, 28 under the forefoot there, definitely a step up from the OG Pulsar that I had been running in and the version 3, which I have not run in, but obviously I’ve seen that shoe. That shoe is much more minimal and more of a crazy lightweight speedster that the S/LAB Pulsar has known to be in the past. So I think this is really a great shoe. If you want to have a speed shoe in your trail arsenal, I think this is probably one of the best picks out there because it does have that versatility. It’s not like you’re going out, say if you’re doing a speed workout, if you’re a road runner, you’re going to the track. You might have a specific track shoe. I don’t know. Maybe these days people are running in super shoes on the track. Maybe it’s a little bit different nowadays, but you’re generally not going out to just like do speed intervals and go home when you go trail running. If you want to run faster on the trails, you’re generally still going out for a bit of a run. So it’s nice to have a fast feeling shoe, a fast running shoe with some pep in it, but also maybe a little bit of comfort if you are going to be out there for a bit. One thing he did mention in the arch area of the foot, I feel like this could be a problem for some people. There’s a very strong firmness. Not feeling this breaking in. I feel that Salomon could have rounded out this area better. So we’re looking at this area and this is something I did bring up in my full review there. There’s no insole in this shoe. It’s just kind of like a sewn in fabric-y layer. There’s like a seam that goes around the edge. There’s no stitching anywhere along there. There’s just no or very little contouring around the arch. And I think I did mention it does feel kind of flat in that area. So maybe the firmness of some of the midsole, it’s not a particularly soft shoe. It’s a highly responsive shoe. You’ve got that Energy Foam Plus in the rear. You got the Carrier Foam, the wings here. That is a little bit of a firmer for stability there. But it just feels a little flat under the arch there. I talk about sometimes I like a good contouring under the arch just for support on the foot. Feels like maybe prevents you from rolling in a little bit. Maybe they wanted to maintain that kind of agile feel in this shoe. Keep a flatter feel under the arch and maybe less chance of maybe rolling over, taking a lateral turn on here. I think with the flatter feel on the inside, it does give you a little more versatility, maneuverability and technical terrain. You don’t feel like your foot is particularly locked into a certain position. But I will say it’s maybe not as comfortable and maybe that’s some of the firmness that Tim is feeling here coming through to the bottom of the foot. I don’t think it’s an issue. Someone in my last review did mention that there was a female athlete that ran this shoe at Western States, which is incredible. I mean, I couldn’t see myself running 100 miles in this shoe, but I think for up to 50K, 50 mile range, it’s certainly an option. Moving on to some discussion about this S/LAB Ultra Glide here. This is probably a shoe I did not fully get along with. I actually pulled this out and I did a kind of a run around the neighborhood on the road. This is a very soft shoe. I’ve just been testing the Perdigio Max recently and I had a couple of questions as it relates to this shoe and I thought, well, let me just fill it out a little. I forgot these relief spheres set up under here. It is a weird feeling underfoot. It’s a little incongruous. Is that the right word? It just feels obviously, it feels like it looks like there’s your foot is kind of moving on the ground and it’s not a like consistent surface. It’s just like a, I don’t know, I guess it does take pressure off certain areas of the foot and that’s definitely a different feel underfoot compared to other shoes. I think the thing with this shoe is the upper. I mean, obviously they’ve already come out with the version 1.5. So initially I thought why, there’s no reason for this to come up so high. It didn’t give me an issue, but it is a little bit bothersome. I talked about this in my best cushion video. So I won’t dig in too much detail here, but they’ve already come out with a version 1.5. It’s just a little sculpted down here. They just essentially lower this. It looks like they might have had to adjust the inner material, but it looks like the same type of soft, filthy fabric on the interior there, but they just kind of cut this down a little bit. And I think that, you know, that should have been done from the beginning. I mean, at least they’re listening and the fact that they can come out with a 1.5 fairly soon after release, I mean, just shows that at least they’re attentive to the market and that it also does prove that is kind of an issue and maybe not necessarily a feature trail shoe companies that you need to have this Achilles collar so high. There’s really no reason. It doesn’t hold the heel in any better having this pressing in the back of your Achilles. It’s just no reason to be there. So being that Tim does have the FDH shoe in the mix as what he calls his all around Swiss Army Knife. He actually in his follow up said that he has raced hard rock. So congratulations, Tim, for running hard rock in that FD8 shoe. And he does label this as a recovery shoe. Let’s take a look at some of his comments here. “I really like the S/LAB Ultra Glides despite getting shorted on V1. The upper should be matrix just like the S/LAB Genesis.” And this is one of the reasons why I brought this out here. This would bring a world of improvement to what I think is a good shoe. Now he pointed out, I told him that somebody had sent me a picture of the matrix upper on this shoe from Ryan Sandis and he said, “Oh, that was me.” I’ve gotten a couple other kind of pictures from other subscribers and followers there, but throwing those up on the screen there. I mean, this shoe certainly at $250, Tim here also believes that it’s a bit overpriced. And I think personally, there’s no way, that’s just a huge sticking point in this shoe. There’s no way that this is a $250 S/LAB shoe with this upper. He mentions that the shoe that Ryan Sandis was running in, it’s like a Kevlar material. What I don’t get is why do brands come out with something that I don’t believe has been fully vetted? I think the first version is like a throw it out there, see what happens and then hit the consumer with version two or 1.5 as we’ve already talked about. I get the business model and all of that, but I’d rather a brand wait, shake out the cobwebs and come out with a solid version one. I do echo his thoughts there. The price point of $250, that’s an S/LAB price point, but this does not feel like an S/LAB fit and an S/LAB, certainly lightness or quality of materials in the upper here. This is just, it’s just quite thick. I talked about this in other places. This tongue setup here, you have the quick lay system, you have the gusseted kind of S/LAB tongue here, smooth neoprene on the inside, but I think it’s just too smooth. The foot moves around on the inside. This upper is thick. It’s not very breathable there, having a hard time blowing air through there. Certainly a matrix material would definitely be the way to go. If you’re going to price this, certainly at $250. If we take a look at these shoes here that Ryan Sand has posted on Instagram here and there, we haven’t seen official pictures of this shoe, but it’s essentially this shoe and you can see the knit collar there, similar to this setup here. In 1.5, they went ahead and kind of cut this down a little bit, but still kept the same setup. Obviously, it’s not a major update. Maybe in version two, as Tim is saying, that’s what they’re going to do. You can see the knit collar, similar to this Genesis. You can see the matrix material. This is just, this is an S/LAB upper and this shoe I believe is $200, I think retail. So this shoe comes in cheaper than this one. This is Ryan Sand’s actual original shoe. I’m surprised that when they go with this, you see him testing matrix-typed upper with this integrated knit collar here, but yet they released this shoe. I think Tim is mentioning the brands, kind of the business side of it. I think they put so much into the relief sphere kind of aspect of it. I think they wanted to have that be the selling point of this shoe. And then like he said, maybe move on to kind of throw on added features into version two, which okay, as Tim said, I can see the business side of that moving and stepping up from one stage to another, but it just kind of puts this shoe in a weird spot. Like I, as I was running in it the other day, it feels kind of soft. It feels kind of nice. It’s definitely a smooth riding shoe. And if you gave me the shoe and said, oh, okay, this shoe is in line with other shoes. It’s $160. I’d be like, okay, great. Like cool technology. It feels soft. The upper is okay. You know, the quick lace is there. It’s nice. Then you come at me with $250, maybe a different issue. So looking at his quiver here, you’ve got the recovery model. Again, you’ve got that FDH. I wish I can get, um, I wish I could get a test pair of that model. Actually it does have the fiberglass plate in there and it makes me wonder if that is maybe potentially a predecessor to the Cloudultra Pro. I’d love to have the feel of the softness of that FDH shoe. It maybe seems like it could be slightly firmer than the On shoe. The On shoe is extremely soft underfoot, but it also has that fiberglass plate. So it seems to be along those same lines. It’s 20 listed at 2820. Tim mentions here. I don’t believe the stack is 28. The heel 20 of the forefoot is stated on the tongue of the shoe. Again, this is the shoe that he says he wore in hard rock. So 8 mil drop there, lovable shoe. It just strikes me as that Cloud Ultra Pro type of shoe before there was a Cloud Ultra Pro. So love to get my feet into those for testing, but as of now, I don’t have that one. Okay. Moving on to round two. This submission comes from Robert B. He sent me his quiver of five trail shoes. I have one stand in here. That being the Nike Wildhorse 10. That is not part of his quiver. He did send me a little bit of background information. So let’s go through it here. Here you go. But thought a brief note about myself. 63 years old, 175 to 180 pounds have completed a few hundred milers wanting to do the Monster 300. Thanks for any information you can offer. Norda 001 and 005 Cloud Ultra Pro. Nike Zegama 2, not this one. Hoka Tecton X3 and the Mt. Coast T1 over there have run in them all about 50 miles each. Zegama 001 and 005 and Mt. Coast T1 are my go to. Mt. Coast have also been good. Also my struggle is the X3. Seems squirrely on the downhills and not too much max cushion but don’t have a lot of miles in any of them. Okay, so first of all, Robert. 63 years old, running 100 milers, looking to do the Arizona Monster 300. Living your best life in terms of trail running and having a nice quiver of shoes here. These are really top premium shoes so congratulations Robert for doing those 100 milers, gearing up for the 300 and also having a pretty nice trail shoe quiver if I do say so myself. One thing that strikes me is you seem to like the PEBA foam. Okay, the soft responsive lightweight cushioning here. If you got the PEBA in here, you mentioned you have some problems with the shoe which I will get to. The Leon H F foam here is PEBAx based. This shoe is ReactX, the Wild Horse 10 but the Zegama 2 that you do have is of course ZoomX, full ZoomX which is PEBAx. Also PEBA EVA blended here in the Mt. Coast T1. So it seems you do like that lightweight responsive type of feel underfoot. TPE, Arnotel TPE with the Norda 005 here. That’s also within the same realm of that PEBA foam in terms of feel, probably a little bit more premium here, a little bit more lightweight in this shoe. Definitely the 001 obviously is the outlier in your setup here. This is the Vibram Midsole which is generally, I don’t think they were fully clear on what this is but it’s probably some type of EVA, possibly a blend here but surely firmer than any of the shoes on the table here. So I’m assuming that your Cloud Ultra Pro is your racer long distance shoe. You mentioned this one not being one of your go-to’s, it’s not a list of shoes that you put there so maybe you’re saving this one in terms of mileage on it for racing. All these shoes are quite soft underfoot. You mentioned this one being a little bit squirrely on the downhills and the one thing I’ll say about these shoes is they’re generally all very flexible so I could see you valuing that flexibility underfoot. Even the on shoe here, it doesn’t go the carbon plate route. This is a nylon fiberglass plate so if you look at this shoe, as far as super shoes goes, this is pretty flexy. Again the speed boards are going to run through here so you’re not going to get a big lot of flex through the middle there but it is quite a flexible shoe and of course soft underfoot. I don’t have the Zegama 2, I did test that shoe but I ended up giving away. It was just too much chunk under the heel. This one is a lot less than the Zegama 2. The Zegama 2 is really punching out there and it was just, I felt like the heel on that one was too high for my running style. It was just a lot under the heel. I did feel like I was kind of a little bit on a slant with that shoe. That shoe is definitely the Zumax compared to the React X in the Wild Wars. It’s just super, it’s that P-back soft bouncy feel whereas this one is responsive but you can tell that it has a denser feel. A little bit different here because again you don’t have so much cushion underfoot and you have that very thin kind of rocker up front which I did talk about in my best cushion video there. It’s quite different from the Zegama 2. It has vibes of Zegama 2 but in a firmer kind of lower to the ground and probably I would say more stable feel in this one compared to the Zegama 2. Taking a look at flexibility of the other shoes. This is your firmest shoe so it is a little bit different. Of course Norda doesn’t have a plate either but this is definitely you can see flexi feel. OO5 of course no plate again. Super shoe, super flexi and probably going to feel pretty much similar in here. This one seems, I do, it does have this full coverage rubber here and I do notice it seems to kind of flex more in a forward orientation. I did the AB testing of this one against the Perdigio Pro and I noted how the Perdigio Pro really twists easily like this, probably more so than any other shoe and this one really flexes easily in a forward orientation. You mentioned this as being one of your go to’s and I think you mentioned it was probably the easiest shoe to put miles in. I assume you generally want that forward, I don’t know what kind of technical trails you’re running but if you’re running 100 miles and gearing up for 300 milers I assume you’re not hitting too much twisty and crazy technical trails all the time so this is certainly a great option for that. Back to the Tecton X3, it has that PEBA foam, full PEBA in this, it’s very soft, I love the feel of this shoe under my foot but it does have the carbon fiber plates in there so if you look at the flexibility of this, there’s some by the toe, you can see that’s probably the front edges of those dual carbon fiber plates there where it does flex but really very stiff. This is, out of all the shoes on the table here, this is probably by a few degrees stiffer than any of these other shoes so I would suspect that the problem you have with this shoe is you like probably the feel of that softness, it’s similar underfoot, you did mention it not feeling as soft, that’s probably the lack of flexibility and the stiffness from the plate so when you hit the ground in this shoe it doesn’t really squish in probably as much as some of these other shoes, certainly the Zegama 2. This one wants to react off the ground a little bit quicker with those carbon fiber plates. Another thing people have talked about is that stability feeling a little squirrely especially in downhills. The upper is another thing here with that being so kind of reactive off the ground, again I think this is still a very soft shoe, when I put this shoe on it feels, I mean the level of cushion for me feels incredible but I think it’s just the stiffness aspect, maybe your ground contact time is a little bit, probably longer than mine as being a lighter runner I’m probably hitting and getting off the ground so I’m just feeling that softness that reaction right away off the ground whereas you’re probably just landing ground contact time a little bit more and just noticing that firmness and if your foot is on the ground longer it’s just you’re noticing that stiffness because you’re not, if I’m getting off the ground quicker I’m not noticing the stiffness as much because I’m already more or less bouncing off the ground as the shoe kind of is intended and is designed for so the softness is probably good but I think that’s probably the difference in terms of your trail quiver setup, how you feel about this shoe. Size 11 and a half in all but the Nordas they’re a 12 so sizing is correct to whatever everyone says regarding Nordas so I have, I do have this shoe in a 10 and a half, I have different sizing so I guess I’ll talk about my sizing here I typically for a style of shoe that I would wear for a longer distance certainly I’m not running any 300 milers like Robert here but being 100 milers I’m definitely probably gonna run a 10, a US 10 typically I consider my true to size 9.5 so I have this shoe in a 10, this shoe in a 10, this shoe is also a 10, Nordas says to size up from true to size so I don’t consider this to be my ultra sizing I might want a little more space in this shoe this feels I would say out of the sizing here it feels similar in line to the mountain coast here, the mountain coast I have in a 9.5 so I have a little bit more variability in sizing than Robert has so I have a 9.5 here and a 10 here and I feel like those are a bit equivalent I have this shoe in two sizes this is my 10.5 right here with the 005 and I find that I do have a Nordas sizing video so check that out if you want more in depth details I find that equivalent in length to this 10 but this is a very wide spacious fit I’m actually I’ve got a Sidas insole in here I’m trying to just play around with insoles in this shoe Robert mentioned here that Norda 005 I love this shoe doubled up the insoles and it’s perfect a lot of ground feel and easily works well on technical trails I do worry how it would feel after a 50 miler so of all the shoes here this one is probably the one that’s going to be probably require the most foot strength I would say it’s so flexi and it’s just you feel a lot closer to the ground in this shoe than some of the other ones the 001 is certainly comparable but with the midsole being firmer and denser it feels like it could probably protect the foot muscles especially what’s going to get through to your foot and kind of lead to some impact fatigue over the course of a longer distance this might feel more protective but the softness of this is really nice so I’ve been experimenting with that double insole set up myself I also this Sidas this is a three feet trail I’ve got these for testing Sidas is probably I think they’re going to come out with a new version of I don’t typically run insoles in my shoes but I figured I’d give it a shot with shoes that feel like maybe they don’t have that contouring and I have enough space to fit the insole in so this was a prime candidate because I feel like I needed to fill up space in the 10 and a half I have tried the double insole set up as Robert has but I feel like it does it kind of jacked up my heel a little bit I filled up the volume of the shoe pretty well with having the two insoles in there but I feel like it almost raised my heel a little bit too much and the shoe does have a bit of a drop to it as is so I wasn’t quite certain on that set up it felt good it felt more cushy and protective but certainly when I put that TPU insole from this shoe in there but I’m just gonna give this shot I haven’t run in it yet but it’s just it has that contouring over here I feel like this shoe can run a little bit flat certainly under the arch so just something I’m experimenting with so and being that this is a wider shoe on a higher volume shoe this is really a good candidate to experiment with some insole swapping assuming you get the higher size there mount to coast T1 good ground feel I like the speed lacing to loosen them on long climbs and tighten them on technical descent so that’s a good thing okay if you’re running 100 milers or 300 milers and you’re not at the front of the pack so to say you know if you’re doing a miles long climb it’s pretty easy to take one second and maybe loosen this a little bit down here to give you a little more comfort on the climb and then once you know you’re gonna go on the downhill these downhills can be miles and miles long again another two seconds to just snug this up I mean I think that’s a great feature some people get lace bite with this set up you could always swap in regular laces or maybe play around with the orientation of these laces if you have longer quick laces from other shoes you can do different things so it’s nice that they have this option I think it’s kind of cool and as Robert says it’s been working for him 001 fewest miles of my shoes but similar in fit as the 005 firmer and less responsive works well on technical but haven’t taken it long yet I did do a long run in this shoe about two and a half hours not super long but I felt very comfortable it does feel like a stable shoe this shoe has a tighter fit you know volume wise especially in the toe box than the 005 here felt very stable and technical terrain I ran heavensgate mountain run Zach Garner Norda athlete that’s a very rugged race and he wore the 001 in that race by the way I do have the 001 on the way it should be arriving tomorrow and apparently they blended in some of the TPEE from here not the full TPEE of the 005 but with this Vibram midsole EVA TP EE blend in that 001 a they don’t advertise a massive weight drop but they said it’s 70% response compared to 50% in this one I’m exactly sure about what that’s going to translate to on the run but a little bit lighter a little bit probably softer more responsive that could be really a great fit on this shoe so I’m looking forward to trying 001 by the way Tecton X3 40 miles so far I want to love this shoe extremely squirrely on technical descents we talked about it seems less cushioned than the rest of my quiver I don’t have a lot of miles but I was hoping one of my main drivers for the monster 300 he was we had some discussion about recommendation for this monster 300 if you feel that this shoe is soft I really think it’s due to more so the stiffness from the plate than the actual foam itself she might want to take a look at Robert and we’ve had this discussion you might want to look at the Mafate 5 because you have that rocker integrity plate but it’s a wishbone shape it goes from here to here it doesn’t extend through the midfoot so you can see it’s not like crazy flexible you could see how I could flex this shoe and this is a massive stack shoe 46 I want to say off the top of my head 300 miles is a long way you can probably sacrifice a little bit of weight to get 46 millimeters under your heel there with an 8 mil drop that puts 38 under here and I feel like that plate does help it keeps it from squishing down too much feeling soft like it’s sapping energy something that I think about with the Mafate speed 4 version feels like that you just kind of sink into much of the softness is great but I do feel like this keeps you rolling and Robert mentioned he was 175 to 180 pounds there I did get confirmation this kind of information was okay to share in this review specifically that was something I talked about heavier runners I think the shoes weight relative to your own weight there’s less of a relative difference if you’re a heavier runner I think I got that right there so for me this shoe does feel on the heavy side although I think this shoe rides really well for me personally at my weight and this shoe at its weight here if you’re a heavier runner I just feel like the weight of the shoe becomes at least relatively less of an issue so a 300 miler I would suggest maybe at least giving this shoe a feel it’s definitely gonna feel soft you don’t think this one is soft this one is surely gonna feel soft and I imagine there’s gonna be some long descents in that race there and you’re gonna like this heel another option I did suggest was this North Face shoe in Doris for between the Perdigio max review I did the best cushion shoes of 2025 and also to a degree the best of 2025 video I just seem to be talking about this shoe a lot more and this is probably a shoe that I’ve had early probably in November last year 2024 I’ve had a shoe probably longer than a lot of these more recent models but it just keeps coming up because it’s just solid underfoot the level of cushion it’s not crazy soft but it’s cushioned enough it’s very protective I think these wings here without being you know carbon fiber it does give you stability you have a nice generous wide platform throughout and the rocker does help you so Robert for 300 miler I think this could be certainly a good option you’d want to check the fit on it you seem to have good variation in your shoe models here you didn’t mention this one feeling tight I mean this one for me I get the kind of toe rubbing on this side it feels a little snug in the nine and a half but you mentioned you had the same size in all of these models well I have this in a nine and a half and I have ten ten ten so maybe if I actually did have this in a ten or you know same sizing in the other shoes as you have I wouldn’t feel that issue here but being that this is a somewhat narrower toe box I don’t imagine you would have any issues with the toe box in this one something I’d point out is with the rocker and slight kind of you know narrowing up here very slight as long as you’re sized correctly this doesn’t bother me at all the width across the forefoot is great in this shoe talked about it before midfoot lockdown is great in this shoe this is a really good overall shoe and I would say for any distance up to 300 milers this might be a good option to have in there I think that’s all I got on these this was kind of interesting and fun let me know what you think of it down in the comments if you have your own trail quiver that you think might be interesting fodder for discussion I could take a look at it that wasn’t so bad right I hope nobody I hope Robert Tim you’re not offended at anything I said about your shoes I mean Robert especially if you’re 63 years old and this is your trail running quiver you are doing something right so living your best life again congratulations there if you would like me to talk about your trail running quiver go to the YouTube home page go to www.humblerunning.com you can find my email there it is mike at humblerunning.com send me your quiver nice picture of it maybe send me your sizes that’s something I had a little bit of a follow-up with so three to five shoes what you do with each shoes maybe some quick impressions and your sizing as I said and we could just talk through stuffs have some fun here on the channel thank you for watching and I hope to do this again so send me your quivers [Music]