Pegasus Trail 2

It’s all down to personal preference when it comes to actual performance. I was recommended Altras by everyone until I bought them, and they don’t offer enough support for hiking, and aren’t gorp enough for gorp purposes. I enjoy a big drop, so NB Heirros are great. I think that nothing beats my Nike Pegasus II for overall hiking. I racked up 1,1000 miles of trail running and hiking in 2021 in those bad boys. I’d suggest trying on something with a rock plate, if you haven’t already.

I get the worse foot camps in my Wild Horses. I love the Speedlands but their current color scheme on the website is terrible. I need a shoe that has good width for the inner part of my arch. I was thinking Norda but reviews have me scared.

It depends on how much mud and slippery stuff you are going to encounter. If it's 10 mins of mud in a 3 hour race then you can loose 3 mins by wearing your Pegasus trail if not then get 6mm+ lugs on your shoes. If it's ice then any trail shoes plus decent ice grippers/studs will work well.  I did a race at the weekend with roal to trail shoes plus grippers and it would have worked brilliantly had I bought decent grippers rather than use my wife's 5 year old £3 a pair rubber grippers with metal coils on. I do a triathlon in Scotland and wear my Inov8 mudtalons with 8mm lugs and they work really well. Half the run is mud or bog and I do not slip or slide. I've tried it in Nike Ultrafly and I was a lot slower! The most efficient trail shoes on runrepeat seem to be the Saucony Endorphin Edge and the Xodus Ultra 3. So if one of those has enough grip I would maybe give that a try. The best shoe is the one you already own, so if you have the Pegasus trail just wear it... But it is a very middling trail shoe. It does every pretty badly. It's not massively comfy, it's relatively slow and it's good poor grip... But you can look up your own metric see what you might like then try on a couple of them 🤞.

I've used Adidas Terrex, Vans, and now Nike Pegasus Trail. The Nike's have been my favorite thus far in terms of comfort and keeping my feet dry.

As mentioned, the Nike Pegasus Trail are very light and comfortable.