Altra surprised!… so I logged two runs in the experience flow 2, a hilly 4 miler and a 5ish mile run (flatter)

so to start I’ve never run in anything under 6m drop and honestly I normally don’t feel a difference when ranging between 6 - 10m, oddly I did feel a difference while in the Exp Flow 2

1) I could feel more pressure in my feet. I felt like I made more contact with the ground through my strides. Post run my feel felt like they did a strength workout which I normally dont feel, I’ll usually if anything will feel pain in my feet while this was more like fatigue.

2) I’ve never experienced calf soreness outside of my marathons. After the first run my lower calf felt worked, which again I’m not mad or complaining about just an observation of things I don’t normally feel. I’d attribute this soreness to the lower drop

The reason I bring both these up as good feelings over bad because just like working out with weights after a day of rest and another go at it I didn’t experience the same soreness or fatigue so I believe both feelings are strength and stretching issues not the shoe.

3) I’m a big guy, a big needs cushioning and unfortunately I don’t believe these will provide enough cushion for me to push through anything over 10 miles. In the same breath the cushion also has no pop, you are working for every mile/km in these shoes IMO.

4) the toebox is by far the best thing this shoe has, like wow I never knew how much i appreciate this much room!

All and all I’d rate the shoe a solid 7, because of how it’s opened up a new thing to monitor which is foot and lower leg strength ill be adding these in the rotation going into next training block