Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
I've only ever done one road race, never train on the roads, and never wear road shoes in training, yet this year I've worn road shoes for two fell races! Both were proper fell races but had short sections of downhill road and fast stony tracks where road shoes were much better than narrow studded shoes, were in dry conditions, and there were no steep technical descents.

A runner who used to be very fast told me he used to wear road shoes on Lakeland races where there was lots of wet rock as you got a better grip as you want to maximise contact surface area, so I guess that probably applies on the slate paths on Snowdon. At the least you can't get any worse grip on wet slate than the zero grip you get with studs!
Agree Joe, I've often trained over wet lakeland rock in Nike Air Pegasus' and found them great for the same reasons as you say. But then they're no good on steep wet grass, you need the studs there! Yes Snowdon is generally gradual with very little grass but it's the lack of stability of a road show that'd bother me. Everyone's different.