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Oct 2010
1:51pm, 1 Oct 2010
21,922 posts
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Hills of Death (HOD)
No but Nat did with her Mudclaws. I got 280s
I think sometimes it does happen.
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Oct 2010
2:19pm, 1 Oct 2010
586 posts
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SODDING HILLS
cheers HOD, going to "steam" them again tomorrow and hit one of the cross-country courses, I think eventually it will be OK. will wear a pair of twin-skin socks and see if that helps.
only problem is they only come in white....
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Oct 2010
3:15pm, 1 Oct 2010
1,423 posts
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ndellar
What he says is correct - with my old mudclaws I had to stick compeed / plasters on my heels under my socks and if any of this bandaging got wet and moved I would have a 50p sized blister on my heel.... (thick / thin socks no difference) until El Bee! told me of the kettle trick. After I had "steamed" I wore them for about an hour round the house to help mould them.
Difficult to say how well it worked as A) Out of paranoia I still taped up anyway B) I only ran a couple more XCs post-kettling as it was the end of the season. The shoes then gave up in other areas so now I have got a new pair of Mudclaws (the red ones) which feel far softer and much more comfy in the upper.
Am trying them out tomorrow @ Winsford XC (N Staffs League), it has been chucking it down here all day but the XC is about 50 miles away - hopefully will be nice and sloppy though!
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Oct 2010
12:49pm, 7 Oct 2010
17,751 posts
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Dave A
XC season started yesterday for me. Works team on a pancake flat football pitch in Manchester. Hopefully I'll be able to get a few club runs in as well this winter.
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Oct 2010
1:29pm, 7 Oct 2010
218 posts
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Nywanda
Well I'm fairly cack at XC running (I use the term running lightly)....but thought folk might want to know that there's a massive free outdoor gear sports catalogue with this Novembers copy of TRAIL magazine. I bought it for the Scotland backpack article. 3.99 for the mag and the free catalogue, worth 3.99 apparently, is free. Got some nice socks in it 
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Oct 2010
3:26pm, 7 Oct 2010
801 posts
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Alex sw harriers
XC - What separates the men from the boys. Embrace it!
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Oct 2010
3:45pm, 7 Oct 2010
9,887 posts
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chrisity
it's usually what separates my achilles from my calf, but it's real running. Bring on the first puddle.
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Oct 2010
10:27pm, 7 Oct 2010
220 posts
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Nywanda
Yes (sigh), I will be re-humiliating myself again at the local Round The Castles series. The one and only downside of joining Fetch is that now people will know who I am (sort of) when I stagger in over the line in last place. It is however, justifying me a new pair of breeks n runners from wiggle this week
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Oct 2010
10:38pm, 7 Oct 2010
38,093 posts
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Gobi
As well as deciding not to run Hampshire league and not to run Oxford mail league as I am doing marathons on 3 of the 5 race weekends today I discovered I can do the Berks Bucks and Oxon champs either.
Possible I will do between 0 and 3 XC races now.
If you are really doing XC I would recommend that people don't bother with trail shoes and buy spikes
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Oct 2010
11:06pm, 7 Oct 2010
9,889 posts
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chrisity
far be it from me to disagree with the DEVIL, but i personally think that for most of us slower runners the trail shoes or fell shoe is a better option as they are more versatile and will get a lot more use. the difference in time that i would gain from spikes is fairly meaningless at my present speed. and i hate changing the spikes, too fiddly and in the long run more expensive
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