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Under Armour UA x Speedland Infinite Mega Initial Review: Mega Indeed! Cushion and Comfort!
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Jan 16, 2025
In the video, we test the UA x Speedland collab. 00:00 Details , 04:37 Fit, 06:20 Ride Impressions and Comparisons from the run, 12:02 Conclusions. It's a highly runnable mega cushioned and comfortable new road trainer with BOA Fit System bi directional dials built in a collab with Speedland, trail run innovators. Available now. $250 Samples were provided at no charge for testing purposes with no additional compensation. The opinions herein are entirely the author's 100's of Run Shoes and Gear Multi Tester written reviews at www.roadtrailrun.com SHOP Running Warehouse at the links below for the widest selection of run shoes and gear anywhere and help support our channel! USA https://tinyurl.com/RWRTRUS EUROPE https://tinyurl.com/RWRTREU EU Only: Use RTR code RTR5ALL for 5% off all products, even sale products AUSTRALIA: https://www.runningwarehouse.com.au/?from=rtr EUROPE SHOP Top4Running https://tinyurl.com/bh9t3hpm Use Code RTRTOP4 for 5% off All Products, Even Sales RTR receives a commission for purchases made through these links which helps support our channel and site.
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today we're going to take a look at the
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uax speedland infinite Mega it's a
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collaboration with Trail shoe innovator
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speedland uh yes it's available in some
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other colors and let's get into a a few
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of the details it has a drop in Eva uh
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super critical foam midsole with the
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outside a hover plus which is a uh TPU
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beads uh foam it has a die cut out sole
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of course it has boa d
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one in the front that holds the straps
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and then a very neat uh rear one which
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makes the shoe super easy to put on take
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off but is also very secure I think it
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will fit all kinds of different widths
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of feet it is
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$250 it weighs 10.65 o 302 G in my us
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8.5 the stack height is a big 43 mm heel
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35 mm 4ot so an 8 mm drop let's get into
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some of the details I'm going to give
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you my impressions of fit and some
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Impressions from the Run hello everybody
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Sam from roadt trail run today we're
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going to take a look at the uax
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speedland infinite Mega this is a Max
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cushion shoe with a dual boa dial and
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I'm going to give you a demonstration of
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how easy they are to put on take off and
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adjust so this shoe is actually a
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collaboration between under arour and
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speedland if you don't know speedland
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there is a startup I believe the guys
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Dave and Kevin were formerly at um under
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arour and they specialize in trail shoes
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that kind of follow the same kind of
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format as we're I'm going to show you
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here in other words they always have a
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boa a boa dial one or two boa dials and
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they have a removable um Mid midsole in
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the trail shoes this is a wrapup kind of
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out sole uh obviously here we have a
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road outsole this is a Max cushion very
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very pleasant Road shoe so let me show
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you uh what the inner uh midsole looks
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like and then I'll give you a
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demonstration of um how to put them on
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take them off it's kind of cool micro
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adjustable here we have Micro adjustable
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dual Direction dials you can see that on
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this side we just have the cords not to
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worry they don't cut your ankle in any
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way and on this side we have the strap
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wrapping around
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which provides a bit more medial
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support now um I'm going to take the
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midsole out but let me just tell you uh
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the outer carrier midsole um this is
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hover plus and hover plus is an expanded
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TPU beads material sort of like uh I I
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should be sort of similar to power run
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plus from um saky a couple other things
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to note before I pull it out see this
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Gap here well we've got a really nice
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Flex here for this big shoe um the stack
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height here is uh 43 at the heel 35 mm
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at the 4T so we got a bit of flex um and
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it allows you to roll forward 35 at the
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heel so we have an 8 mm drop I like an 8
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mm drop in these Max cushion uh shoes
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especially with the the forfoot if it
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gets too high and we'll on the run and
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and after I'll show you a few others
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here the bond D do a good job with its
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somewhat higher stack and the glycerin
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Max is higher yet and and it has to rely
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on this big rocker kind of different uh
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approaches okay so we're going to show
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you how you get our ultimate mega on
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with its dual boas so you just pull them
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on like this look how easy that goes on
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you press down the
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bowad crank it down then the rear one
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you do the
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same and what you can see now is you can
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see how it's it really holds the heel
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super well it doesn't look like it would
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but you can see there are the little
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cords so if you want to tighten it you
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turn this way if you want to loosen you
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turn that way so it's micro adjustable
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like
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that and basically you get a really good
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lock down almost no matter how wide or
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narrow your foot is at least that's what
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I'm finding I have a narrow narrow foot
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you can see just how wide the shoe is
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you just crank
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down okay let's talk about the fit of
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our infinite Mega here we're at the
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beach of course so the fit is a bit
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long as you can
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see but I think true to size because of
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the miracle of our boa di so you can
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easily easily tune in the fit I have a
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relatively narrow foot and I got him
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cranked down pretty pretty far but
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there's NE There's No undo pressure the
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heel thing is particularly effective so
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as is the forefoot those wide straps
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reduce any pressure from the dial and
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there really isn't any you might worry
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about oh I don't know if I can show it
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here with these pants but you might
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worry about the collars well on this
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side it's padded um for a bit more
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support whereas
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cuz that's the medial side whereas over
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here we have just the straight dial but
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no binding or no kind of uh pressure
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there let me show you how it works you
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can dial both directions I tightened you
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can loosen so this is the more
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sophisticated newer boa dial and here
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you can tighten loosen and to remove
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them you just pull and you can see very
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easy to put on it put on take on and off
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uh this is really a very interesting and
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effective upper for what's a shoe that's
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really focused on lots of cushion and
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lots of comfort I'm going to give you
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some Impressions from the ride here I'm
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nursing a bit of a bum knee but I'm back
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running so how's the ride well we're
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cheating a bit because we're running on
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this pretty hard sand but I've run them
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on the road some very very well cushion
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soft but the center super critical
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Eva gives us a lot of energy return the
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uh TPU sides are stable enough but this
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is a ride that's really focused on Max
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Comfort starting of course with that
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upper I'm well held
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here just poking along beautiful day at
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the beach Beach a lot of people walking
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little below freezing another thing I'm
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really noticing
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is there's the let me stop and show you
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there's the kind of a slot or Groove
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there on both sides you can see that
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curve that helps me with my toe off and
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roll
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here so this isn't one of
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those High stack fourt 4ot that requires
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a rigid rocker we have some Flex already
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the other thing that's surprising me is
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with that 43 mm quite broad heel we roll
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through from the heel very easily again
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a surprise for such a stack height
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sometimes the heel either feels blocky
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and heavy or midfoot feels rigid not so
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here okay found some pavement here and I
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really like the smooth roll forward here
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and I think the straps help a lot too
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because they keep my foot locked down
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this is an 8 mm drop shoe and I think
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that makes a bit of a difference
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compared to say the glycerin Max which
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is 2 mm higher at the heel 4 mm higher
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at the 4T 6 mm drop
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so and that one really has to rely on
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a rigid accentuated rocker may be a bit
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better at faster Paces but it's almost
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too much another one that comes to mind
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here is the new Bondi 9 which has a same
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43 MIM heel but because it's a 5
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millimeter drop 3 mm higher at the front
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it it too is quite
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flexible it's kind of a it's a bit
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lighter whereas the
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uh glycerin Max is a bit
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heavier 2/10 heavier and the uh Bondi
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4/10 of an ounce
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lighter they're both similar the Ford
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flow here is a bit more
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accentuated uh the energy in the Bondi
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comes from an all super critical Eva
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midsole we have reviews of both of those
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in video
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and soon written for the
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Bondi but they're all in the same
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category so it kind of depends what
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you're looking for here I have a
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narrower foot but I think if you have a
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wider foot even though the Bondi is
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available wide this one may be a bit
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better for you plus the convenience of
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adjusting the boa dials on the go in
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terms of the Gin Max it's a lot of Stack
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it's a bit more uptempo this one seems
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to handle slower Paces a bit better as
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the Bondi does and the glycerin
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Max I'm going to keep going
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here so the midsole feel here soft but
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energetic I think the combination of the
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TPU
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beads as the outer carrier gives it a
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feel somewhat similar to Soy power run
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and the center core gives it nice
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energetic return uh there's plenty of
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support at least for Straight Ahead Road
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running of which I think keeps it keeps
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comes really from the strapping system
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because this is a fairly soft midsole
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but it's all really well pulled together
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for such a big shoe there's quite a
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linear feel moving forward to that those
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notches that give it some Flex nice heel
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Landing no kind of hiccups and
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transition as you often find in such big
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shoes really
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quite
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nice as a let's say
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say as a recovery run shoe for the kind
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of faster faster runner or for those
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that want kind of a soft bouncy ride
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that isn't hampered by all the stack
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height here um
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43 uh uh
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35 uh so definitely if you like a softer
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riding daily trainer for probably
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everything except maybe your tempos it's
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a really good choice well a few
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conclusions here uh well under arour
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kind of surprised me here not known for
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running shoes more for sports apparel
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and football and so on so forth this is
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a very friendly riding shoe with a
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really exceptional soft ride it really
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works well um now in terms of its basic
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statistics it's two $250 which is kind
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of up there for an unplated shoe but
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when you get the boa dials and all that
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great cushion uh it weighs 10.65 o 302 G
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in a us8.5 so it's within a few tents of
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uh for few tents of an ounce of for
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example the glycerin Max which has a bit
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more cushion and it's a few tense uh uh
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heavier heavier than the Bondi 9 also
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with a bit more 4ot cushion but I like
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this 35 mm cushion here um because it
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really allows the shoe to flow along
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really
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well so what's it for well I think it it
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would be a very good um recovery run
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shoe for say the faster runner quote uh
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but it's also a great shoe if you prefer
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a softer ride um um and an adjustable
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fit maybe you have a broader foot or a
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super narrow foot I think it'll work
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well for both but we we're going to have
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a multitester written review with some
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folks who have narrow feet and see how
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that turns out um it it really uh places
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itself really well in this uh Universe
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if you will of Max cushion shoes we have
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the Bondi 9 here Al that has an all
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super critical foam midsole fairly close
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in stack height but it has a 5 mm uh
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drop so um so a bit more in the 4 foot
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now the glycerin Max goes quite a bit
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higher overall in stack height um it has
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a 6 mm drop you can really see the
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difference
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here in in the 4 foot look at that um I
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don't think this is as easy flowing for
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me uh it it seems to be happiest when
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you really move along whereas this one
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just kind of rolls nicely it's a serious
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running shoe don't let its appearances
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fool you in terms of you know it looks
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kind of like the dad shoe some people
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commented on the initial um initial kind
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of post we did but uh when you have
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speed land uh involved high performance
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trail shoes uh you know that under aror
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is getting a bit of help um and uh this
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is really uh an interesting interesting
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new addition it's one of the first shoes
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at least certainly for Road and even for
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boas I've run a lot of boas where the
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boa really adds some value by allowing
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it to fit my foot really well and others
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and also this adjustability I wouldn't
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say it's a stability shoe in any cents
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but it's plenty stable enough for me um
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even though this all looks kind of
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minimal uh over on the other side on the
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um medial side you can see the strap
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provides plenty of support uh it's
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really a neat Innovation from under
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arour a company really quite frankly
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that hasn't done much innovation in
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running and we'll hear more from our
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other testers in the multitest review
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but thank you very much for watching
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have a great run
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