Its been a long time looking for a running shoe that has a wide toe box, some drop and meets environmental responsibility with performance. As a woman in my 60’s who’s passion it is to run in the mountains, the devils are like a gift from the running gods. Not only is it light, have plenty of room in the toe box they are the grippiest shoes I have run in for a very long time. I took them for an outing on the Buffaloe Stampede on the weekend and they did not disappoint. I could run downhill on steep gravel descents with confidents, at no time did they ‘skid’ on the ‘loose’ terrain. They shed water surprisingly fast. crossings sections of track covered with water, found me exiting the water and very quickly forgetting I had just ‘waterlogged ‘ my shoes. A very muddy section found me momentarily concerned that they where maybe too ‘sticky’ when it took a few 100m for the shoe to clear it self of the mud ‘clog’ I had collected but it did clear and the shoe went back to its comfy ride.
Heving DNF’d due to an injury I am not disappointed, I have finally found a shoe that will not only allow me to descend with confidents, but allow me run on both technical trails and roads.
The fit of the shoe is quite generous, I advise people to try 1/2 size down. The heel grip felt good and at no time where my feet sliding around in the shoe, descending my foot did move forward in the shoe but was also captured from running into the front of the shoe by the lacing that runs higher up on the top of the shoe.
Thanks Team Tarkine if your shoes keep improving at this speed there will be no need to have any other shoe on the market