Noosa Tri 14

I certainly have noticed that the grip falls off when running in slick/grimy conditions. Both on old asphalt and cobble stones. We have a lot of that here in the Netherlands. I think my running style exacerbates the issue (especially steady to marathon efforts and faster (4:00/km). In my limited range of experience for that example Id say for some of my recent shoes: Poor: alphafly 3/zoom fly 6/superblast 1/Noosa Tri 14/Vomero 18 Good: Superblast 2/Metaspeed Paris Great: Puma Nitro 3/Adidas Boston 12 Just ran a HM on Alphafly 3s in rainy conditions and as soon as we hit the cobbles, I could feel me slipping on my toe offs on every stride. That costs speed/increases effort.

Nice review. We have very similar height/weight/paces, basically the same. I want to pick up this shoe, but tough to justify it, I already have too many low-mileage easy running shoes ha. Maybe I can snatch one some time down the road on a discount. Slightly off topic, but very curious - what other shoes do you have in rotation, which ones do you enjoy most? Especially in terms of holding up to our weight - ride and/or durability. Edit: OK, I see your flair haha. How do you like Adios 9 for instance? I thought these would be not enough cushioned for our weight

I have Evo SL, love it as well. Glad to hear they're holding up fine after 450k. I take all 'review after 800k' with a grain of salt at 88kg or so. My Noosa Tri 14 were dead after 250k, granted those foams don't have the best longevity cred, but still. And yeah, Evo SL is a very good do-it-all shoe, agreed, although I'd have to stay very alert to not make easy go into threshold with that one :D Thanks for input. I will keep tabs on VN4 and DE3/4, have never tried a Puma running shoe as of yet.

>While substantially better at taking on long runs than past versions, it still is not a shoe I want to have on my feet for more than 75 minutes. Which have you tried? I have run about 2h 15minutes with my noosa tri 14, its the shoe I would choose for long runs if I would maximize the comfort. Wonder if this means that these new ones are less comfortable.

I have the 14s and absolutely love them

Yesssss. I've had all the Noosa's from 13-16. My two favourites have been 13 and 16, they are very different, 13 was firmer and good for short efforts, 16 had been my go to for daily miles under 10-12k. Absolutely love them, I think you've nailed the description, I can just put them on and go with no worries. Great for taking on holiday as can do a variety of miles, can't wait for 17 to come out so I can get another pair of 16s cheap.

I had x3 pairs of the 13’s. Done everything in them, ran my first sub 3 with them.

Noosa Tri, Sonicblast or Magic Speed I bought the Megablast for the subt workouts but I don't really like it at those paces. I know I'm in the minority, but it feels a little clunky at faster paces. Last winter I used the Novablast 5 for a lot of the subt workouts & it worked well if you can deal with a softer shoe. NB5 is an absolute gem. It's much smoother than the Megablast & you can use it for long runs. Really baffles me how Megablast is $85 more than NB5.