Month: November 2022

NNormal Tomir early review

When Kilian Jornet moved on from Salomon there were plenty of rumours as to what he had planned. Well we didn’t have to wait long. The news that he was going to be launching his own trail running shoe and apparel company broke in March this year. NNormal was born (with a little help from Camper)!

Fast forward a few months and in September we saw Kilian winning UTMB in Chamonix wearing his own shoes. In this case he was using the Kjerag, the company’s max performance shoe for racing. Not long after that, the launch of the website and the news the Tomir would be joining the line up. The Tomir is billed as “the only shoe you need for just about every outdoor activity“. Kilian says that runners should be able to get well over 1000km from them. Given the price for an everyday shoe, this statement better hold up. So what else was there to do other than put in my pre-order and wait for the postman.

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Let’s try this again

When I started this blog a few years back the aim was to share my experiences of training and racing. Let’s just say that after a promising, if not prolific start, I soon lost my way and the updates were non-existant.

It’s not a case of me stopping the training and racing. I have done so much over the last few years, even with the mild inconvenience of a global pandemic. In fact that actually gave me the opportunity to try a few other things given the paucity of races, especially in 2020. Have a look at my updated results page to see what I’ve been doing

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