There’s nothing fairly like a run in nature: bushes round you, a contemporary breeze within the air, dust at your ft, and perhaps even a stream burbling within the distance. However moving into path working can really feel intimidating—particularly in the event you don’t have the fitting 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 nicely it handles trickier terrain.
Who it’s for
The Blissfeel Path is an on a regular basis path working shoe, or extra precisely, a “street to path” sneaker, as the corporate describes it. That signifies that it’s rugged sufficient to guard your ft on uneven floor, however not so cumbersome that it may well’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.
Out of the field
The “street to path” side was robust when unboxing these: Except for the lugged outsole on the underside (which helps present traction) and little extra hardiness alongside the higher, the sneakers look rather a lot like a daily working shoe—there’s no excessive ankle assist or laceless fastening that you simply see with some trail-specific fashions. I’ve tried path sneakers with each these options prior to now, they usually convey form of an…intense really feel to them that I believe is likely to be a little bit 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 lady’s foot, and that could be why I used to be in a position to put on my typical road shoe dimension as a substitute of going up a half dimension, like I usually do with trainers.
After 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 undoubtedly felt comfy. To me, it was a welcome reduction from some path sneakers, which might simply really feel like rather a lot as quickly as you slip them on.