There’s nothing fairly like a run in nature: bushes round you, a recent breeze within the air, filth at your ft, and possibly even a stream burbling within the distance. However stepping into path operating can really feel intimidating—particularly in the event you don’t have the appropriate gear to get began.
Enter: The Lululemon Blissfeel Path, the model’s first off-road shoe that was designed to assist ease runners onto these peaceable paths. As a part of SELF’s 2023 Sneaker Awards, I examined out a pair to see simply how properly it handles trickier terrain.
Who it’s for
The Blissfeel Path is an on a regular basis path operating shoe, or extra precisely, a “highway to path” sneaker, as the corporate describes it. That implies that it’s rugged sufficient to guard your ft on uneven floor, however not so cumbersome that it may’t go on the pavement too. To me, the shoe is for runners who wish to give trails a strive, however most likely aren’t going to leap into actually intense ones proper off the bat.
Christa Sgobba
Out of the field
The “highway to path” facet was robust when unboxing these: Apart from the lugged outsole on the underside (which helps present traction) and little extra hardiness alongside the higher, the sneakers look rather a lot like an everyday operating shoe—there’s no excessive ankle assist or laceless fastening that you just see with some trail-specific fashions. I’ve tried path sneakers with each these options previously, and so they carry type of an…intense really feel to them that I believe is likely to be just a little off-putting to these dipping their ft into a brand new type of run.
Match and really feel
Like all Lululemon sneakers, the Blissfeel Path was designed particularly for a girl’s foot, and that could be why I used to be capable of put on my regular road shoe dimension as a substitute of going up a half dimension, like I usually do with trainers.
Once I tried these on, the shoe actually hugged the curves of my foot, giving it extra of a streamlined look than I anticipated with a path shoe. My foot felt cradled and supported, and though I wouldn’t name it cushiony, it positively felt snug. To me, it was a welcome aid from some path sneakers, which may simply really feel like rather a lot as quickly as you slip them on.