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June 20, 2007
Sorry GoLite.
It's nothing personal.
I recommend that you do not buy the GoLite Trail Fly shoes. My experience has shown that the GoLite Trail Fly shoes are not durable enough to withstand the rigors of trail running.
In late April, I bought a pair of these shoes. On May 16th, I posted a blog entry about how they came up trashed after a trail run. Upon returning them to the store where I purchased them, I ordered a new pair and received the new pair somewhere around May 24th. As of June 12th, the second pair of shoes was also trashed.
In each case, I ran in the shoes for about 3 weeks before the upper material began to break down and rip and the seams tore loose.
I enjoyed these shoes and found many favorable qualities about them. They are quite stable on rocky terrain, they dry quickly, and they are like 4-wheel drive through mud. (There were a few things that I didn't care for; the soles are like rocks when frozen by snow and they are a very high volume shoe.) I'm sad to see them go, but it's back to Montrail shoes, I think.
PS. This is rather bad timing, you know. I'm busily trying to simultaneously break in a new pair of trail shoes while tapering. I call that an impossible challenge!
Posted by Meghan at June 20, 2007 1:31 AM
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Ow. They'll be happy to hear this, although not happy about the results. GoLite is one of the most responsive companies there is. I have a bit of an inside track, so I'll let them know.
Good luck with breaking in new shoes before the race.
Posted by: JeffO at June 20, 2007 11:09 AM