 type of shoe where maybe it's in a park you know what I mean a good park trail race okay here we go second video publishing today first impressions of the sketchers go run speed trl hyper that is a mouthful sketchers I think the trl stands for it's I shorten for trail I do believe and yes it is a trail racing shoe from sketchers alright but I'm not racing on the trails for a long long time so I wanted to take it out today for an 8 mile run in the mud as you can see it's very muddy it was solid time out there slipping around and having a good time in the snow and the ice in the mud and here we go let's dive in 26 millimeter stack height in the heel 22 in the forefoot so 4 millimeter drop pretty low I would say for a racing shoe and it it definitely has a minimalist feel really it yeah it's not that midsole is pretty lean overall and I guess I'll say right now that if you're racing on a rocky trail this is probably not the shoe for you I was feeling the rocks through the through the midsole and the outsole today out there at Deer Creek the weight though here we go 8.2 ounces in men size 9 so that's it's a lightweight shoe for sure especially out there on the trails and I almost forgot to mention that this is not my full review this is just my first impression after the first run okay so moving on to the upper very comfortable upper now it's not you know waterproof at all like my foot was pretty soaked today out there but very comfortable very simple laid on top of the foot very nicely now it's unique though very unique something I've never been seen before in the upper of really any shoe so basically on the tongue this side of the tongue is one piece of material but this side of the tongue the outside of the shoe is open so it's like a half gusseted tongue so only half of the tongue is connected to the shoe it's very interesting I have to mess around with the lacing a little bit more through the eyelet chain just to see how it will lay on top of my foot moving forward but I gotta say very very comfortable and you know it has the booty style collar around that wraps around your ankle that is reinforced with this locking they're calling it their locking system which I felt secure today I really did and I was going you know 1800 feet of vertical gain today out there on the trails but this locking system it's one it's like basically a piece of a cord that wraps around the outside of the collar right around there through the heel counter and then through the top of the eyelet chain as you lace it lace it in there on you it I don't know I felt very secure so that locking system again I will continue to test it out and see how it does moving forward okay it's that hyperburst midsole all right again as I already mentioned it's it the hyperburst is lightweight but it feels very minimalist which if you're using this shoe for racing that's you know it's kind of what you want you want something lightweight nothing too heavy depending obviously on the distance that you're racing and the terrain like I said if your race course is really rocky this is probably not the ideal shoe to take out there now between that midsole and outsole there is a rock plate not sure if you can see that piece of red right there that is the rock plate and I'll just continue to test on rocky trails here in Colorado like will that rock plate protect my foot from the yeah the jagged edges out there on the trails we shall see moving on to the outsole it's a good year rubber all right I love how Skechers has a partnership with Goodyear and I finally figured out Adidas has their partnership with continental rubber so Adidas uses continental rubber for their outsole and Skechers is using Goodyear rubber for their outsole I love the innovation and the cross-pollination of major major industries now I will say the traction was not ideal it was not ideal just putting it out there I was in very muddy conditions toward the end of the run as the sun started to melt the snow in the ice and the lug depth is not amazing all right so what does that tell me this shoe is going to be more made for buffed out trails with not as much rocks and not as much mud okay so this is a more simple trail racing type of shoe where maybe it's in a park you know what I mean a good park trail race okay nothing crazy up in the mountains doing crazy stuff I just um I'm not sensing it at this point again I'll get you my full thoughts after 50 miles but right now it's a more simple trail racing type of shoe now my number one positive here we go actually two $115 that is what I'm talking about it's really difficult and yes I'll just compare it to Solomon the s-lab sent seven sg you're looking at $170 maybe $180 brand new and the sent eight is about to come out which I'll be testing for all of you very soon but there's a huge now the weight of the sense seven is quite a bit less than well not quite a bit but about it's about an ounce ounce and a half from the uh from the sketchers go I won't even try and say sketch all right I will sketchers go run speed trl hyper um so but $115 that is hard to be and one last positive once again it is lightweight so if you like a lightweight trail shoe that is not overly aggressive through the lug pattern just something to give you a little extra grip as you're you know going through the parks near your house or maybe there's a nice cross country course near your house and you love to go do you know laps on that or anyway just nothing overly aggressive with respect to rocks or mud and how will I use the sketches go run speed trl hyper I'm thinking speed days on buffed out trails if I want to do a little bit of a workout whether it's a tempo workout or some intervals or hill repeats on a buffed out mountain uh trail uh I actually know what if you're local mount falcon I think this shoe would actually do pretty well on mount falcon deer creek was a little more loosey goosey up there today but mount falcon this could be the one definitely not to take up on the 14ers here in Colorado just not quite enough protection for the feet depending on the 14er of course so one last point before we wrap up is I'm sensing 10k to half marathon on the trails that's the distance that I would put this shoe through for racing um I don't know if I'd take it past half marathon maybe but I'm thinking 10k to half marathon would be a solid buffed out trail race type of shoe in case you're really and yes let's do it question of the day have you selected your trail racing shoe for probably not it's very early but maybe you have some ideas that you want to ask about down below in the comments definitely let us know so because yes as I'm getting a little excited for the summer months when we can go run the trails a little bit more and uh anyway so that's the question of the day thanks for hitting it up down below there you go first impressions not by full review just want to make that clear first impressions of the sketchers go run speed trl hyper all right everyone there you go we're gonna toss it back on the right to some other sketchers uh actually sorry the sketchers max road four first impression run that'll be on the right sketchers max road four and then also we'll toss it back on the left two trail racing shoes of 2019 trail racing shoes of 2019 all right everyone thanks for being here thanks for watching seek beauty work hard and love each other see you tomorrow