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Tom’s Guide
Tom’s Guide
Technology
Nick Harris-Fry

I ran 45 miles in the On Cloudboom Strike 2, and it’s a balanced racing shoe well-suited to marathons

On Cloudboom Strike 2.

The best carbon plate running shoes all share the same purpose: to help you run more efficiently at high speeds, but they don’t all do this in the same way.

I love ludicrously light and aggressive super-shoes myself, like the Puma Fast-R Nitro Elite 3 and Asics Metaspeed Sky Tokyo. Still, they’re not the most durable or practical option for anything other than race day, and many runners find them too unstable and uncomfortable for longer events too.

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