Altra Torin 9 - full review after 50 miles — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey guys, welcome to the video. Thanks
2. 0:02for joining. Today I'm going to do my
3. 0:04full review after a little over 50 miles
4. 0:07on the Ultra Touring 9. I've been trying
5. 0:10to get in my 50 miles in these pretty
6. 0:12quickly because there's a lot of people
7. 0:14that want comparisons to other shoes.
8. 0:17I've just gone a little over 50 miles. I
9. 0:19wanted to do my general overall review
10. 0:21on today's and then I'll make follow-up
11. 0:24videos with specific comparisons to
12. 0:26other shoes. The Ultra Torren 9 I think
13. 0:30was a major upgrade for Altra on the
14. 0:34Torin series. I've been a Torin wearer
15. 0:37for several years. I think I ran in
16. 0:39version 1.5. Then I ran in the four, the
17. 0:424.5 Plush, the Torren five, the one that
18. 0:46cut into your ankle, the six where they
19. 0:50softened it a little bit, the seven, the
20. 0:53eight, and now the nine.
21. 0:57The original Torren I think had like a
22. 0:5926 millimeter stack height in the heel.
23. 1:0226 millimeters throughout. They went in
24. 1:05up to a 28 mm stack height around
25. 1:08version five. I believe it's either four
26. 1:11or five
27. 1:14and a half or five. And then they also
28. 1:18transitioned
29. 1:19from
30. 1:21they had a regular EVA midsole through
31. 1:23four 4.5. They had a Quantic midsole
32. 1:27which was still an EVA based foam. I
33. 1:30guess they've all been EVA based until
34. 1:34throughout. But in version five, they
35. 1:37had their Ego Max,
36. 1:39which is really version six, seven is
37. 1:45where they went with the Ego Max. And
38. 1:48but then they
39. 1:51upped the stack height from 28 to 30 I
40. 1:54think in version 7 with the Ego Max and
41. 1:57that became a little bit too soft and
42. 1:59squishy for me. But now the nine I'm
43. 2:03sorry I may be off a little bit on my
44. 2:05history but in the nine they have gone
45. 2:08from that 30 mm stack height that was in
46. 2:11the eight. They dropped it to 28, which
47. 2:14was something I really like because it
48. 2:17doesn't give you so much foam. And
49. 2:19they've gone to their P35, their
50. 2:21polyolifan elastimemer foam, which
51. 2:24definitely has more rebound.
52. 2:28The testing I have on most
53. 2:32EVA foams is that they have like a 30%
54. 2:36rebound whereas the POE, the poly olifan
55. 2:38elastimemer, the P35 is more like in the
56. 2:4260% rebound, 60s something% rebound
57. 2:45categories from the research I've done.
58. 2:48So it definitely feels more bouncy
59. 2:50whereas the eight I felt like I was
60. 2:52squishing down and didn't get enough
61. 2:54rebound back. That is not the case. Now
62. 2:56you got a little less stack height so
63. 2:59you don't squeeze down as far. Plus this
64. 3:01foam just bounces back further. Um
65. 3:05they've gone to a dual density foam
66. 3:08of this. So they're actually calling
67. 3:10this the P35X which the dual density. It
68. 3:13is a and you can feel it on foot. It is
69. 3:17a little bit firmer foam along the
70. 3:20outside of the shoe
71. 3:23and then the inner core is softer and
72. 3:26you can feel the softness.
73. 3:29It still does give you some pretty good
74. 3:30bounce. I like it.
75. 3:33It's a vast improvement over the ride of
76. 3:35the Torren 8. They retoled the upper
77. 3:40some. It was a nice breathable upper in
78. 3:42the eight. It still is in the nine. They
79. 3:45definitely widened the lace
80. 3:50the laces in the nine, which I think
81. 3:54probably gives a little bit more
82. 3:55adjustability.
83. 3:57I'm not exactly sure why they made that
84. 3:59change, but I've had no problems with it
85. 4:01at all. The tongue is
86. 4:04medium cushion tongue, but what they've
87. 4:06done to it is they've made it really
88. 4:09soft on the underside. So, I think if
89. 4:11you wear these barefoot, it's going to
90. 4:12be very comfortable.
91. 4:15The cushion around the heel collar is
92. 4:19nice and I'd say medium to high
93. 4:22thickness. Probably medium. You still
94. 4:25got some good structure to the heel
95. 4:28counter.
96. 4:31And then the huge upgrade that I think
97. 4:33they made was they went to a V-bum
98. 4:38excess Dura outsole. It's one of the
99. 4:40first ever road outs soles from Vbram,
100. 4:44but I have run I used to run in my old
101. 4:47Merrill bare access that had a V-bum
102. 4:50outsole. I guess they were meant for the
103. 4:51trail, but it was a very light amount of
104. 4:54cushion and I ran on them the roads. So,
105. 4:57I do know that this is going to last
106. 5:01longer and the grip is really good. Even
107. 5:04walking around the running store, I
108. 5:06could hear these shoes still are
109. 5:07squeaking and I'm 50 miles in into these
110. 5:11shoes. And I've run I have not really
111. 5:14run in the rain yet in these, but I have
112. 5:16run through some puddles and things like
113. 5:19that. And it the grip is phenomenal. I'm
114. 5:22really impressed by that. One of my
115. 5:25things that I have not liked a lot about
116. 5:28some of the Ultra outsoles is I felt
117. 5:29like the rubber wore a little too
118. 5:31quickly. Wasn't horrible. You're still
119. 5:33going to get 300 350 miles in them, but
120. 5:36you weren't going to go beyond that.
121. 5:37These I think your outsole will not be
122. 5:39the problem in going to 450 500 miles
123. 5:44anyway. So,
124. 5:46as far as the look goes, I do think they
125. 5:49might have narrowed the heel a little
126. 5:51bit, but I for my foot, it actually fits
127. 5:54a little bit better through the midfoot.
128. 5:58Some people with a really wide foot that
129. 6:00go to Altra because of the wide foot may
130. 6:02not like that. But for me, it feels
131. 6:05really good.
132. 6:07Anyway, I am impressed with the updates.
133. 6:09Of all the things that I was starting
134. 6:11not to like about the Torin series, this
135. 6:13seemed to correct it. I really enjoy
136. 6:16them on the run and I'm looking forward
137. 6:18to doing more comparisons to some of the
138. 6:20other shoes in my rotation. These will
139. 6:23not be my only shoe because I like
140. 6:26running between zero and six millimeter
141. 6:27drop, but I do like doing some spending
142. 6:31some time every week in some zero drop
143. 6:33shoes. So, right now, my primary zero
144. 6:36drop shoes will be these and the Magnify
145. 6:386 from Topo. But anyway, those are my
146. 6:41thoughts. Really enjoying the shoes so
147. 6:44far.
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155. 7:01Other than that, that's really my
156. 7:02thoughts for today.
157. 7:04I hope you're having a wonderful day and
158. 7:07keep moving.
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