- Hop on the bike.
I'll give you the quick breakdown.
This is gonna look like super pro.
(mouth noises)
Good morning triathletes, I'm not gonna tell you a whole
lot about this bike, I'm gonna let you know what I did,
but I wanna save time so that I can get to the office.
I wanna go and tell you all the differences between,
hang on, these shoes, I'll hop on the bike, show you
the workout, off to the office, I'll see you when I'm there.
(upbeat music)
Alright, this is the collection of Skechers runners that I
got a couple of weeks ago that I've been trying out
for the past two weeks, I have three runs in on these shoes,
three runs in on these shoes and two runs in on these shoes,
third one happening tonight.
And I wanna give you a bit of a breakdown on what they
are all individually for, and I'll do it that way,
because that goes from most aggressive to least aggressive
and most built up.
This here is the Skechers Gomeb Speed 4, these are
the Skechers Gomeb Razors and these are the Skechers
GOrun 5.
These are so new that I don't even think that they're
on Skechers' website, and they certainly aren't
in the pamphlet they sent me.
These shoes are seven and a half ounces, $100 with
a 4 millimeter heel drop, these Gomeb Razors have the same
4 millimeter heel drop, they are 7.7 ounces, $110.
These Skechers Gomeb speed 4s are $130, they have the same
4 millimeter heel drop and they are 6.6 ounces.
So they're all really, really light shoes, this is really
good for super fast like racing flat aggressive type
running, this I find is good for the mid distance running,
I would probably put this in like 10K to half marathon
running or just a general trainer, I would probably put
the GoRun 5s in the same camp as these Gomeb Razors,
there's not a whole lot different, there's a little bit
more built up on this, and the footbed is the same,
they've got the same kind of feeling, there isn't a ton
different between these two.
Let me tuck this in, what I'll say about all of them though
is that I like them all, I really, really like very
light runners, I like runners that have a little bit
of spring but aren't squishy.
I like runners that promote a mid or forefoot strike
where you're coming off the front of your foot and don't
have a really built up heel, I like runners that have
a little bit of room in the toebox, so I feel locked in
at the heel and not really constricted up at the front
because then my toes rub against each other and I get
blisters, all of these fit very similarly and they've got
the same kind of ride, big fan of it so far.
They've all got the same kind of grip with the same
mid sole that is really light, and they've got all the
rubber in the areas that'd you normally hit on the outside
of the heel on the front of the foot, apparently these
don't last a really, really long time like we're not
talking about 3, 4, 500 mile shoes, but the offset of that
is that they're quite a bit less expensive than some
of those like $150, $175 or $190 shoes.
As far as dollar per mileage, I'd probably put these
the same as most other trainers out there.
Compared to say the Newtons which I talk about a lot.
They've got a very similar ride but they were all broken in
immediately whereas the Newtons probably needed about
three or four runs to really feel like they were responsive
and not harsh, all of these first run, good.
I've only run barefoot in the Gomeb Speed 4s,
and it was for the most part fine towards the end
of the run, I got a little bit of a hotspot on the top
of the foot, but it's a seamless interior.
I wanna go over here and we'll go to the fancy product shot
table, I'll give you a closeup all of all these,
and I'm gonna show you one really fancy shot.
So that is the Skechers GoMeb Speed 4, like I say, this is
the lightest shoe of all of them, couple of the nice
features are, one, a really, really thin tongue,
we're talking like basically just a tiny little strip
of leather, not a whole lot to them, I will say that
right out of the box when you take these for a walk,
the heel and the forefoot is gonna feel a little bit stiff,
but as soon as you get running up to speed, it's gonna
be really nice, I'm a big fan of these.
As far as racing goes, talking 5K, 10K races, triathlons,
up to sprinter and olympic distance, these are gonna be
really good.
Now these, the GoMeb Razors are a little bit more built up,
I have a very nice sock inside there.
Tongue is just a little bit more built up than the racing
flats, the sole was nice and responsive, I didn't have
that initial period where it felt stiff, I'm a big fan
of the colors, Mel seems to think they're SeaHawk shoes,
go Bombers, same sole, just a light strip of rubber,
but you do have a fair bit of cushion with just
a 4 millimeter heel to toe drop.
It does feel like a much more structured shoe than a lot
of the other racing flats out there.
Once you put it on, you get running and you're up to speed,
it's a really good ride as far as fast running goes,
even though these are more built up than the racing flats,
you could use these for racing easily because these
are nice and fast too.
The GoRun 5s have a little bit more built up in the sole,
and they do have this nice little loop at the heel
that you can use to pull it on and transition, so that
would be very good for triathlon, same sort of material
on the top, seamless on the inside, so it's nice and smooth.
And the same tongue on this that we had on the GoMeb Razors,
identical footbed, still feels the same as the other
racing flats, and this is just as light, so these shoes
would actually be really, really good for a full marathon
or an iron man where you need a fair bit of buildup
to take the load that's pounding on your body, but you also
want that nice quick transition, the one thing that I will
say that I'm finding with all the shoes is that they aren't
crazy breathable, they do have a fair bit of material
on the inside, especially for a light shoe, but I've never
found that my feet got sweaty in them, so, I wanna do
one really fancy shot to show you what our social media
ad agency does, because it's gonna look like super pro.
(upbeat music)
Eh, eh?
Not too shabby, eh?
I'll see you later for a threshold run on the treadmill
that I'm gonna use these for.
The threshold run right now, and somebody's on my treadmill
again, these people don't know that it's my treadmill,
workouts the last few days haven't been going so super hot,
but I've been jacked up about running lately, so,
I like going fast and I'm feeling fast today, so I think
that this run will snap me out of a little bit of a workout
funk that I've been in the last few days.
I've gotta go mess that guy up.
(upbeat music)
Holy shirt, that was tough, I think I say that about
every workout but I actually meant it this time.
I got through that whole thing, no cheating,
ended the threshold at 9 and a half miles an hour.
That was serious, serious, glad I did it, my body might
not be, and anyone who's between the ages of 27 and 40
and isn't listening to the Spotify Old School Hiphop
House Party Mix, what are you doing with your life?
Look at this, they've got Coolio here, Gangster's Paradise.
For life, alright see you tomorrow, have a good day.