I was just going through the ON line of running shoes and it seems most shoes are for casual wear and/casual running. Are any of the models good for serious runners?
I was just going through the ON line of running shoes and it seems most shoes are for casual wear and/casual running. Are any of the models good for serious runners?
The best shoes are the ones ON your feet!
there are no good ones
The ones you take off
What they said. They are vastly overpriced.
The monster are great. Just the right level of stable and responsive. The are not soft, but not hard either.
The Protagonist wrote:
I was just going through the ON line of running shoes and it seems most shoes are for casual wear and/casual running. Are any of the models good for serious runners?
It feels like the consensus is that the new Cloudsurfer is the best On trainer yet. The Cloudmonster was pretty good because it used a new-style foam, but the carbon plate wasn't great. The Surfer dumps the plate but keeps the foam and uses a new midsole design. Have heard good things, though haven't tried them on yet (maybe tomorrow, I'm in the market). Older models of trainers are just so-so, for the most part (I tried many of them before buying other shoes, and never really liked them).
I prefer Off shoes.
WhiteBoyRunningInAsianHeat wrote:
The monster are great. Just the right level of stable and responsive. The are not soft, but not hard either.
The best thing on can say about the Cloudmonster is that they are not horrible. I bought a pair after they were the first On shoe I tried that did not feel dead (the opposite of a cloud feeling). I have not tried the Cloudsurfer yet.
The cool kids make fun of their parents by calling them QCs
The new Cloudsurfer is a game-changer for on. It feels like a mix of the endorphin speed but with a hoka-type rocker.
I run 50-55 miles per week on mostly soft surface roads and trails and some hard surfaces. I’ve trained in a variety of shoe brands over the years. I’ve found the Cloudmonster to be the best everyday trainer I’ve worn. For me it strikes a great balance of comfort and performance for the purpose (high mileage for me) and as an added bonus, where I’ve seen the outsole of some other brands get chewed up on the dirt roads and trails, my Cloudmonsters are like the energizer bunny….they keep going and going and going. The one downside of the On shoes I’ve worn is that occasionally…(maybe once every 20 miles on a gravel road) I’ll have to pick out a stone that gets wedged in the sole. I’m a frugal shopper and I initially balked at the $170 price, however when I found I got about 1.5 times more miles out of my cloudmonsters than the other shoes I had been training in it made my decision easy considering they were the best training shoes I had ever worn. I haven’t tried the Cloudsurfer but plan to.
The Cloudmonster is good. The new Cloudsurfer also looks good. I think right now those are the most interesting training shoes they make. I am hoping they combine those ideas and make a squishy high stack shoe soon
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