Within the article, I recap RoadTrailRun 2025 and look forward to 2026 . Our workforce wrote 562 articles and critiques in 2025 masking street and path operating, biking, and climbing. They collected 68,441 miles / 109, 930 of distance and three,590,000 ft / 1,497,450 of vertical alongside the way in which to carry you our protection!
To totally take a look at and examine the huge array of progressive new merchandise the 12 months introduced, they collected many miles/km and vertical ft/meters within the US, Europe, UK, Australia, Mexico and Singapore intently evaluating footwear. With out the workforce’s dedication and expertise RoadTrailRun couldn’t exist or carry you our in depth overview and broad protection. I’m very grateful to all of them!
Under is their superb distance and vertical tally.
* 20 contributors participated within the distance survey.
What have been the RTR workforce’s 2025 favorites for Street and Path?
We carried out our annual survey of contributors in November with many street and path classes up for podiums. It turned out the very finish of 2025 introduced but extra nice footwear together with the RAD UFO, Adizero SL EVO ATR, Nike Construction, Saucony Azura, and GEL-Nimbus 28, Scott Kinabalu and extra all prepared in take a look at or reviewed.
High 2025 Street Sneakers
New Stability FC Insurgent v5 (RTR Evaluate)
ASICS Megablast (RTR Evaluate)
Puma’s Quick-R Nitro Elite 3 (RTR Evaluate) and Adizero EVO SL (RTR Evaluate)
Our prime 2 footwear have been each plateless with supercritical foam midsoles. Each are versatile thrilling trainers Our tied for 3d place footwear have plates, minimal however current within the EVO SL and aggressive and prolonged within the Puma and each have supercritical foams.
High Street Model of 2025
ASICS was our contributors’ Model of the Yr, fairly intently adopted by Hoka every with 3 first place votes with ASICS getting a further 2nd place and 3d place vote.
New Stability follows in 3d place on the strengths of the Insurgent v5 and SC Elite v5.
Puma on the energy of the Quick-R3 in addition to trainers Velocity 4 and Amplify 3 adopted in 3d place.
Full Street Survey Outcomes HERE
High 2025 Path Sneakers
Mount to Coast’s H1 (RTR Evaluate)
Hoka Rocket X Path (RTR Evaluate)
There was no clear 3d place shoe though the Salomon S/Lab Pulsar 4 and La Sportiva’s Prodigo Professional have been additionally prime selections
Reflecting the 2025-2026 traits in path shoe design (maximalist and “affordable”), and our workforce’s terrain preferences, the H1 is a comparatively minimal stack peak all rounder centered on simpler trails and street whereas the Rocket X Path is a really maximalist shoe with a carbon plate additionally centered on simpler trails. Each mirror the rising “gravel” or what I might name a versatility development. Each have cutting-edge supercritical foams and notably gentle weight for his or her stack heights and platforms.
Full Path Survey HERE
What have been readers’ favourite Evaluations and Articles by site views?
Readers clearly got here to RoadTrailRun’s site for our street operating shoe protection and naturally path, attire, biking, climbing, practical health gear and health electronics too!
What have been probably the most seen posts on Instagram, the place we are actually very near 79K followers?
We’re in spite of everything RoadTrailRun and curiosity was evenly break up with Path main Street by one submit within the prime 9! Our Instagram is at @RoadTrailRun
YouTube
Our RoadTrailRun YouTube Channel ended the 12 months with 19.6K Subscribers. We posted 121 movies in the course of the 12 months with 59 from the December 2025 Working Occasion alone that includes 2026 introductions (Playlist)
Key Developments 2025-2026:
More and more each street and path footwear throughout all worth ranges, besides “funds” at lower than $140, are shifting decisively to the supercritical foams as soon as discovered solely in tremendous race footwear. EVA and EVA mix foam midsoles and particularly non supercritical ones are primarily not. New foams (and notably quickly rising A-TPU’s, first utilized by Puma, and related TPEE’s are taking up. Lighter in weight and much more energetic, the brand new foams are even beginning to push out PEBA foam, the previous gold customary for supercritical in addition to nitrogen supercritical EVA which nonetheless have a spot in path for his or her stability. Even the New Stability 1080 obtained a very recent supercritical foam for its v15, and an enormous drop in weight and enhance in journey smiles.
Sneakers will more and more transfer away from conventional “rubber, notably in street footwear the place the lighter extra sturdy CPU (forged polyurethane) compounds are actually more and more getting used,
Whereas the beginning of the 12 months (and 2024) noticed a flood of excessive excessive stack plated tremendous trainers and even racers,some past World Athletics 40mm limits, by 12 months finish a number of nice 36-40mm heel stack peak coach racers with the brand new foams emerged. The Adizero EVO SL, Saucony Endorphin Azura,. TYR Maverick-V1, Mount to Coast H1, and RAD UFO delighted us.
Non-plated larger than 40mm stack peak tremendous foam trainers have been successes: Nike Vomero Plus and Vomero Premium, ASICS Megablast, and Puma MagMax 2 being examples. They used effectively thought out geometries and outsoles to stabilize their excessive stacks of soppy foams as a substitute of plates.The Vomero Premium was notably notable as this 55mm heel shoe (the very best but and for positive not gentle) has been tremendous enjoyable and every day coaching efficient to run with a journey sensation far lighter than its weight and a surprisingly broad tempo vary. Its mixture of large ZoomX, entrance and bag Air models with a plastic body under delivers a really particular and surprisingly good expertise. In 2026 I am unable to wait to strive the 190g! Mild Spray (higher) Cloudmonster Hyper which seems to set a brand new bar in weight to cushion ratio.
Small manufacturers stole the thunder of the large guys with progressive enjoyable and versatile footwear. Most notably Mount to Coast with their do any run street or path H1, RAD with their tremendous enjoyable to run and take a look at UFO, and TYR with their very gentle, steady and dependable Marverick V1 and Norda with their 05 path racer.
Many marathon racing footwear grew to become extra “democratic” and accessible with steady dependable performers such because the New Stability SC Elite v5, Hoka Rocket X3, Brooks Hyperion Elite 5, Adizero Adios Professional 4, Saucony Endorphin Elite 2 and Puma Deviate Nitro Elite 3 permitting slower paced runners to additionally moderately expertise tremendous footwear. I count on this development to proceed with extra versatile plates in each street and path tremendous footwear. On the identical time pinnacle racers grew to become extra radical with the Adizero Adios Professional EVO 1 and a couple of, Hoka Cielo X1 ASICS Metaspeed Ray and Puma’s Quick-R3. Nike stayed the course with their Alphafly 3 however launched a shorter distance centered decrease stack and aggressive Vaporfly 4.
Path trainers advanced as effectively and perhaps extra decisively than street footwear in 2025 with virtually all prime rated footwear having supercritical foam midsoles and most frequently no intensive plate. As in street path supershoes, they moved to the extra sensible with plated footwear such because the On Cloudultra Professional, Hoka Rocket X Path and early 2026 Brooks Cascadia Elite (non carbon plate) which can be much less inflexible in journey and extra trails pleasant, even for elites. Non plated affordable stack peak path footwear with supercritical foam proved standard for non elites and on main race podiums together with the LaSportiva Prodigio Professional and Max, Norda 05 and 01A, Mount to Coast H1 and T1, Kalias Fuga EX330, NNormal Kjerag 02, and even Salomon’s S/Lab Pulsar 4 which stayed plateless however obtained some supercritical foam.
Looking forward to 2026 I believe the traits seen in 2025 will speed up with the rising prevalence of lighter and but extra energetic supercritical foams and throughout all classes and worth factors. Stack heights will proceed to reasonable as these foams can ship the safety and power return of extra conventional foams at decrease stack heights and lighter weights, and this for each street and path. On the identical time manufacturers might search to leverage the sunshine weight foams to create very excessive stack coaching “experiences”
From a private, and sensible standpoint the 2025 improvements of broad adoption of supercritical foams, affordable stack heights, and unplated tremendous max street footwear allowed me, in my fifty fifth 12 months of operating, to honestly have recent legs daily it doesn’t matter what I did the day earlier than. My every day paces have been significantly quicker than even earlier than I broke my knee cap in late 2023. I raced sparingly and never notably effectively which was a little bit of a shock , probably as I get previous and gradual! I’ll work on extra speedwork, did virtually none in 2026, and really do some health club! I all the time favor to only run
Right here is to a effective quick 2026 on all of your roads and trails! Thanks very a lot for following RoadTrailRun in 2025.
Sam is the Editor and Founding father of Street Path Run. He’s in his 60’s with 2025 Sam’s 54th 12 months of operating roads and trails. He has a many years previous 2:28 marathon PR. Lately he runs halves within the simply sub 1:43 vary. if he will get very, very fortunate. Sam trains 30-40 miles per week principally at reasonable paces on the roads and trails of New Hampshire and Park Metropolis, Utah be it on the run, climbing or on nordic skis. He’s 5’9” tall and weighs about 160 lbs, if he isn’t having fun with too many effective New England IPA’s.
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