I absolutely love inov8. Basically all I’ve needed till now is one pair of mudclaw G260’s and one pair of terraultra G260’s, swapping between the two depending on the weather and what I’m running over.

My latest pair of terra ultras are nearly done, which is almost perfect timing, and I’m just waiting to get back properly from the injury bench before I buy a pair of the new trailfly G300’s. On average I get a good 400 to 500 miles of hard running out of any pair of inov8’s and I also manage to double up on my terra ultras as leisure/man about town shoes and the gym (when they’re clean enough).

I don’t understand people complaining about the value of inov8s - I’m guessing it’s mainly from runners that have more than two pairs of shoes on the go, thereby using any one pair less often and maybe suffering from the shoes gradually falling apart on the shoe stand (over drying out?) rather than by use?