Peregrine 12

Fascinating. What’s your typical terrain? My trails are far more varied, rock/root/boulder/dirt/gravel so my 12s easily have 300k and my cleats don’t look as worn as yours. Do you use these for lots of uphill grinds on rocky terrain hence all the forefoot wear? I do wear orthotics so I don’t think I get nearly as much forefoot twist, but I’d certainly think it’s a material/laminate construction issue there.

I switch 3. Cumulus, 2000s, and peregrines

Also in Northern UK and I run a mix of trail trails and forestry tracks. Saucony peregrines 12 for me, they have the goretex version too.

12 + 13 were utter garbage when they were new let alone as 3 year old new stock. 15 was back to being great and the 16 is looking similar.

I haven't had any issues with my 13's and have over 2,600km on them. I see people saying they are not a good shoe but they've been solid for me. Seems like they're a bit hit and miss. I found the 11's to be excellent while the 12's had rather poor uppers that needed repairing after just 500km The latest 16's look like they should be good with engineered mesh uppers and vibration soles.

I believe there are probably better (lighter and longer lasting) options out there now, but I am quite committed to the Salomon speed cross 6 shoes. They use very soft rubber which gives some of the best grip I have found in a trail runner. As a trade off, they last roughly 150 to at most 200 miles (granted, I am all over boulder fields, and run extremely hard on downhills) in the Adirondacks and White Mountains before the tread wears off, they are still useful daily wear shoes after that. They have a good amount of heel cushion, but less up front. I find this allows some really good precision footwork (you can better feel the surfaces) and you can use the heels to soak up impacts. At this point my feet are form fit to this particular shoe, so every time I buy a new set (2-4 times a year), I just throw them on and get trail running, no break in required. While they are slightly heavier than some of the newer trail runners, I feel like they work better as endurance shoes. I can still throw down hour-and-a-half laps of Jefferson (via caps) and two hour laps of Mount Washington or Adams (they are not much slower than the really light shoes), but I can also use them for a Bob Marshall traverse, or Presidential/Great Range traverse. Lastly, an important note, the gore-tex variants fit differently than the regular ones, not dramatically so, but they definitely feel slightly different (I get different hot spots wearing them). The Saucony peregrines (I think I had the 12s) were lighter, also had excellent grip, and a good back to front cushion gradient, but mine failed catastrophically mid baldface loop. (They had maybe 100 miles on them and my foot blew right though the side/top of the shoe. Unfortunately that was not a fluke, I saw the same thing happen to a guy on Mount Marcy) Maybe they fixed that issue with the 13s? I have a pair of Terrex Agravics, they are very light, but I question how long they will last (not very deep tread, and very thin top/sides) Probably a lot of other good options, Run the Whites has a great selection right in the white mountains, and I think does demos.