Gear, seen through a cultural lens.
Less about performance. More about what it says about the sport.
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Essential Gear
Kiprun Kipsummit Race: A Breathrough Mountain Running Shoe
For years, Decathlon sat outside the core of trail running culture and the Kipsummit Max puts them squarely in it.
Trail running has always framed itself as separate and the Adidas Terrex Agravic TT supports it.
The Kipsummit Race feels like a turning point for Kiprun.
It reads like a shoe where restraint and performance were pushed together as far as they could go.
The Norda 001a does not split the difference between design and trail running performance.
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These are not the most popular products. They are the ones that reveal where trail running is actually going.
The cold and snow are finally here for many parts of the running world. Winter running provides a whole new element to the kit,
[Photo by Schleicher Hugo]. "Shoes are Never Really Just Shoes" or "Why I Fell in Love with Norda".
I tested the new Mount to Coast H1 on the gravel paths of Jardin du Luxembourg next to my apartment in Paris. We moved
Patrick Stangbye co-founder of Portal, contributed for years to ROA, and just generally exists in the zeitgeist.
UNNA's brand so naturally builds community that it's easy to overlook its products. Not because the products are deficient (quite the opposite). It's that