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- Morning, Trainiacs.
For the last month or so, I have been reviewing
(grunting) these shoes that that just got announced.
These are the Skechers GOrun Razor 3s
and according to this, have speed in them.
They just got announced.
They are fath.
They are fast as, and we're gonna talk about
just how fast they are and if they are a good shoe
for my running shoe lineup or yours.
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So, alright, Trainiacs,
this here is the new Skechers GOrun Razor 3.
It is Skechers' newest and one of their most aggressively
positioned racing flats that there is out there.
Think along the lines of like the Newton Distance lineup,
the Saucony Kinvara, the Hoka Mach, Cavu, Tracer,
the On Running Cloud Flash.
It is very, very much meant only for going fast,
and it's everything you'd expect from a very fast shoe.
It is 6.4 ounces, extremely light.
It has a four millimeter heel to toe drop,
kind of in the middle of where racing flats are,
and it's a very neutral shoe.
There's not a lotta support.
It's super flexible every which way,
very light, very breathable, very fast.
Something that's unique to the Skechers GOrun Razor 3 though
is this sole.
Now, it's not like it's groundbreakingly new.
It's basically if you look at it,
it's like the material of a really dense pool noodle.
They call this the Hyper Burst technology,
and basically what it is is a really neutral
but slightly dense foam that gives you a little bit
of energy return, so it's got a little bit of pop
off the ground, just slightly,
but it also has a fair bit of cushion,
so I did a little bit of off-roading in this.
Felt good.
Did a long run in this.
Felt good.
Did some speed work in this.
Felt good.
It's just a really nice, all around sole.
The tongue in this is really, really thin
so it stays outta the way.
The upper in this, they call it translucent ripstop mesh,
so it's super breathable for any triathletes
or road runners that tend to get really sweaty feet,
they want a breathable shoe.
It's really good for that,
and it's also one piece,
and when I say one piece, it is one piece.
Front to back, one piece.
The inside also on the insole here
has these little, it's like little grippy bumps
on the inside so that your foot feels extremely locked in.
There's not a whole lotta wiggling around.
You don't develop any of those hot spots
from just slight, little movements
of moving inside the shoe.
And if you go barefoot,
it's a little bit too grippy when it's barefoot,
but I've been running in it barefoot
about three times, and I haven't developed any blisters,
again, haven't developed any hot spots
in all of the areas that I normally do develop those in.
So it's good.
Yeah, it's good, but when you first put it on,
it's like ooh, that's gonna develop blisters
because it's too grippy, but it didn't.
So it's like I wanna say it's good,
but exercise caution with your first impression.
And the laces here are just super skinny.
I thought that these spaghetti little laces
would come undone.
They don't whatsoever.
And just a nice shoe.
Now let's talk about my runs in it.
Fast runs, really really good.
I did some very short, very tempo-ish,
like coming up to threshold speed work.
This is what it's made for, track work, fart-like runs.
I just wanted to say fart-like.
Speed work, progression runs.
I did a 12K run in this where at the end,
I did five times one minute
at max sustainable one minute effort,
got down to a 3:12 per kilometer,
which on a lotta shoes that are just meant
for like daily training,
I have a tough time getting down to.
This, no problem.
Felt smooth.
I even used these on a long run last weekend
going up to, I think it was 16 and a half K.
We are talking 10 miles,
and where normally a racing flat shoe
would beat up my body pretty good on a run like that,
it still felt really nice in this.
I think that's due to this Hyper Burst foam
that is extremely shock absorbent.
But that's not to say that it is the perfect shoe.
Number one, this is a very small thing,
but Skechers has a lotta shoes
where they've got a heel loop on the back
and it's really easy for triathletes
to (popping) pop these onto your foot,
especially if they're going for that triathlon market
with the ability to wear this barefoot,
having a nice low heel cup
so that you don't get blistering
on the back of your achilles.
There's no reason that this shouldn't have that
for it to be a perfect triathlon T2 kinda shoe.
Second thing that I've got a fairly big grip about
is the price.
It's coming in at 190 Canadian dollars
so I'm expecting that to translate to about 149 US.
Skechers is not known for making shoes
that last an extremely long time.
With previous models of Skechers shoes,
they lasted somewhere around 2/3 the length of time
of their competitor shoes.
Their pricing was also 2/3 the price
of their competitor shoe.
So on a dollar per mile basis,
I was like hey, works out, no big deal, buy Skechers.
But when you compare this to shoes
that are the same sort of features,
that 150 price point basically makes it one
of the most expensive shoes out there
besides the Cloud lineup.
Now, all the shoes out there don't necessarily
last any longer than this,
but just given the history of Skechers shoes,
I wouldn't expect these to last too terribly long.
That's normal with racing flats.
It just kinda sucks to have that kind of expense
with a shoe that you don't expect to last very long.
So who is this for then
if it is a expensive dollar per mile shoe?
Well, anyone who wants to go fast.
If you're somebody that can only buy one pair of shoes,
I wouldn't make it this shoe.
People that are only buying one pair of shoes are people
that aren't running a lot,
in which case, your body isn't going to be well adapted
to running so you're gonna need a little bit more cushion.
But as soon as you start running three, four times
a week or more, you absolutely need a couple pairs of shoes
A, because some of those runs should be fast,
in which case, you need a shoe that encourages fast feet,
allows you to get off the ground quickly.
This does that really well,
and B, you also need a shoe to intermix
with your daily training shoe.
The foam on a running shoe sole take about two days
to recover from a run,
so you need to have shoes to intersperse
between each other so that you're not just pounding down
on a running shoe sole that is just collapsed
on you and isn't providing any sorta cushion.
So if you go multiple shoes, you wanna go fast,
you wanna race fast, these are very good shoes.
Just know that there are little bits of features here
that would make it the perfect shoe.
However, when I look at do I like a shoe,
I think to myself, do I just find myself
when I'm not shooting a video
or wanting to do some testing,
do I gravitate towards one shoe more than the other?
And this shoe I've been running in a heck of a lot lately.
So it's good.
There you go!
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