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@ewanmac
Fucking Inov-8... Fucking wiggle.
I've been using the same collection of shoes for about 4 years now. F-lite 195s for road and dry trails, and X-talon 212s for wet trails. Recently Inov-8 began messing around with their models and introduced two variants of everything... "standard" and "precision" fit. It took me a while to work out that the original shoes were both "precision" and that "standard" is a new wider fit designed for forefoot strikers. Ordinarily I'd approve of this, and I'd like to try the wider "standard" fit at some point, however we're currently in the run up to the London Mara, and all I want is the same shoes as I've run in for years... through several ultras, iron-men and all my training... I know they work. I don't want to go experimenting with new shoes now.
I've been casually browsing for over a month now and it appears that very few stores carry the old "precision" fit, and even more have the shoes badly listed so it's impossible to know which is which. For example Wiggle have this shoe listed as being "precisions fitting", but is that the same as "precision fit"? Inov-8s website suggests that those colourways only come in "standard" fit. This seems to be the case everywhere I look, but eventually, I found that wiggle had a single pair from last year's range properly and clearly listed as "precision fit" in a colourway that appears to make sense. Frustratingly it cost £20 more than the poorly listed 2015 shoes but it was in my size so I ordered it. It's taken well over a week to arrive only to discover it's the wide version.
Why can't I just get the same shoe I've always had??!?