New Shoes Alert – INOV-8 X-TALON 212’s

I’ve bought some new shoes for the race, Inov-8 X-Talon 212’s. After a lot of searching and reading through reviews it was between these and the 190’s. I decided these would be a bit more robust and as they’re quite expensive I’d like them to last a while.

I’ve tried them out on The Downs and they make short work of steep hills. I’m impressed.

I’m hoping to use these for XC after the Steeplechase but unless it starts to get really muddy up on the downs I can’t see myself using these more than 5 or 6 times a year. There’s always the West Sussex Fun Run League to enter come January, I might get some more races out of them yet!

Anyway, its good to have a choice of trail shoes!