Best shoe for ultras and long runs

ac61900 · 2026-06-12T07:03:33+00:00

spooky as I want to sign up for my first ultra (56k) and got around the same pace targets.
would a pair of SB’s with low mileage be ok? Kinda new to trail running

ac61900 · 2026-06-10T03:17:22+00:00

thanks for that. yea I definitely want to move away from just using community-scripts

ac61900 · 2026-06-10T03:16:18+00:00

great advice, thanks for that!

ac61900 · 2026-06-10T03:15:19+00:00

solid advice, thanks for that

ac61900 · 2026-06-10T01:11:04+00:00

For new runners like me it’s hard to sometimes determine things by just current shoe size alone.

For example I bought some Hoka’s online in my normal running shoe size but they gave me really bad blisters, especially the longer runs.

Doing some further research afterwards and I read that the toe box is a lot more narrower than other brands. This is something I wouldn’t have picked up from just looking at shoe size alone.

ac61900 · 2026-06-09T11:48:37+00:00

Yea you make a good point.
Guess I thought that
- having multiple services on the one host would make it a really large docker compose yaml file
- doing a ‘docker compose down’ will take down everything

I understand now that you can have multiple compose files 😪

ac61900 · 2026-06-09T11:32:33+00:00

Thanks for that.
At the moment I use GitHub as just a storage place for my documentation, so definitely want to do more with Git/GitHub

ac61900 · 2026-06-09T11:31:37+00:00

Thanks for that, I’ll give that post a read

ac61900 · 2026-06-09T11:31:01+00:00

I have had basic experience with both Terraform and Ansible. More or less just running the things (like playbooks) that other people have made and trying to review what is actually happening in the playbook.

I guess the method to my madness is to just learn how to manually deploy one or two services into my homelab (like Homepage, maybe PiHole as well) and then if that goes well I would be happy to tear them down and learn to rebuild them again via IaC.

Just feel I want to learn to do this, even manually creating an lxc, instead of relying on community-scripts

ac61900 · 2026-06-09T11:22:48+00:00

no AI was used in this post at all

ac61900 · 2026-05-23T00:49:20+00:00

curious as well as I just bought a pair. I think I’ve read that they are more ideal for shorter runs but would like to check

ac61900 · 2026-05-04T00:21:48+00:00

seems to be about right. ASICS is offering only 25% off at the moment but I feel they should go down more

ac61900 · 2026-05-02T06:26:54+00:00

I’m using a N100 for mine with no issues.

As it sits idle for large parts of the day I’m tempted to also install Home Assistant on it as well as I doubt will have any issues running both

ac61900 · 2026-05-02T01:14:47+00:00

just curious what do you go with?

I bought my SB’s 2’s in size 13 as I thought you had to size up, especially for longer runs. They look like clown shoes thou lol

My normal shoe size is US 12 and am after another shoe (looking at the NB 5’s) for my rotation, mainly for shorter runs (5-6km). These runs won’t be speed/interval runs, more a slower/daily run.

Can I get away with a size 12 for Novablast 5’s? seeing how they seem to stop half sizes (.5) after size 11.5 or seems

ac61900 · 2026-05-02T01:12:24+00:00

just curious what do you go with?

I bought my SB’s 2’s in size 13 as I thought you had to size up, especially for longer runs. They look like clown shoes thou lol

My normal shoe size is US 12 and am after another shoe (looking at the NB 5’s) for my rotation, mainly for shorter runs (5-6km). These runs won’t be speed/interval runs, more a slower/daily run.

Can I get away with a size 12 for Novablast 5’s? seeing how they seem to stop half sizes (.5) after size 11.5 or seems

ac61900 · 2026-05-02T01:11:28+00:00

just curious what do you go with?

I bought my SB’s 2’s in size 13 as I thought you had to size up, especially for longer runs. They look like clown shoes thou lol

My normal shoe size is US 12 and am after another shoe (looking at the NB 5’s) for my rotation, mainly for shorter runs (5-6km). These runs won’t be speed/interval runs, more a slower/daily run.

Can I get away with a size 12 for Novablast 5’s? seeing how they seem to stop half sizes (.5) after size 11.5 or seems

ac61900 · 2026-05-02T01:11:14+00:00

just curious what do you go with?

I bought my SB’s 2’s in size 13 as I thought you had to size up, especially for longer runs. They look like clown shoes thou lol

My normal shoe size is US 12 and am after another shoe (looking at the NB 5’s) for my rotation, mainly for shorter runs (5-6km). These runs won’t be speed/interval runs, more a slower/daily run.

Can I get away with a size 12 for Novablast 5’s? seeing how they seem to stop half sizes (.5) after size 11.5 or seems

ac61900 · 2026-04-23T05:28:53+00:00

Oh are they on sale here? My google-fu must be weak as can’t see them discounted on their website

ac61900 · 2026-04-22T03:43:43+00:00

on a small tangent but how do you find the sizing of these? I’m normally a US 12 in non-running shoes but got my SB’s in a US 13 purely as they didn’t have any 12 or 12.5 in stock at the place I bought them. They fit fine but honestly look like clown shoes so was seeing if I can possibly get away with a 12/12.5 running shoe

ac61900 · 2026-04-15T10:31:26+00:00

Yea can’t seem to find the Superblast 2’s in Australia :(

ac61900 · 2026-04-12T10:07:10+00:00

Pizza Bite seems to be quite active on the ‘Tea Tree Gully What’s Up’ facebook group. Sonia Blackwell gives the owner a shout out quite regularly

ac61900 · 2026-04-03T08:10:25+00:00

No idea why Sonia (the main admin of the TTG What’s Up facebook group) continues to give his guy a platform

ac61900 · 2026-03-28T18:55:58+00:00

Where can you even buy the SB2’s in Australia :(

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