Road running shoes for fell?

[RichardAThackeray]

Can I wear my standard Asics road running shoes to do a fell race?
so any advice greatly received.

Just pray it doesn't rain, or has any wet/muddy patches, or you'll probably be 'toboganning' back down the hill

I did my first 'fell-race' (race 6 of the 2009 'Trunce' series in my New Balance road-shoes & had to almost crawl through the (wet/muddy) woods.
I enjoyed it though, & bought some fell-shoes the very next day! (Mizuno Wave-Harriers*)
Come the next race, I dropped my time from 37:04 to 32:56, due to the shoes offering increased confidence in the muddy bits (oh, & a better start)


Welcome to the mad-house, I'm sure you'll be happy here, & accepted.
I am!



*I've since bought some Inov-8 Mud-Claw 330s, but consider them too extreme for the 'Trunce' - with its stretch of road (actually bought them for the Ilkley Harriers 'Ilkley Moor Fell-Race' that took place in February)