Trail Runner Nation gear review today is for the Car Who Flow Trail. Don, what do you think about the Car Who Flow Trail? It's got I never heard of a Car Who. It sounds like an animal that lives in Alaska. And so I picked it up, did a little research, and they've been around for a long time. In fact, they were breaking into the scene when Nike was breaking into the scene. Was this the first car who you have run in? The first one I ran in, and here's my impression. It's a trail shoe, and it works on the trail. It has lugs on the bottom that are good for pretty dicey situations, slippery, good lugs, and bi-directional lugs. You know what that means, Scott? I mean, you can run uphill or downhill. That's an attraction. That would be good on trail running. Exactly. It's a light shoe and it has the mesh on the top. Here's something that's unique about it, and I think serves well on the trail. Is it has the mesh on the top top allows for your foot to breathe and it allows for water to escape if it needs to. But the lower portion, if you look at the shoe, it has more of a rubber but a contained, it keeps stuff out. So it's not completely meshed from top to bottom. So it has a unique feature. So how does that work when you're trying to drain the shoe?

If you're running through a creek,

I mean, does it hold water like a bathtub? It does not. Everything moves right over the top of that. So I didn't have any issue with that. You know, it drained well. So, and I pick a good pair of socks with it, and that's always helpful. Are you gonna rate for drainage?

Can I help back by the sock?

Now I've looked at it.

I like the color.

The color's pretty cool.

This year, this is the 2013 shoe or the 2014 shoe. I was running in the gray shoe, but I've never run faster because of color size with what I had. But you're looking at my feet all off the Scott. So maybe you want to see what color do you want me to wear? I don't care. So what are some of the things that you liked about it? Well one thing is that it just rides well. What does ride mean? You know, hit the ground and it feels good. I just like the way that it connects you to the trail. Is this a traditional shoe? Would you call it or is it a minimal shoe? Or what would you say? Scott Specks read 2.5 millimeter drop from career. Okay, so it's a fairly flat shoe. It's a nine-ounce shoe, and so it's fairly light as far as shoes go. So I think it works well. I don't think this has a rock plate in it. Is that correct? No rock plate. For most of the stuff, I've never really needed a rock plate. There are times I stepped on a rock and thought, these don't have a rock plate. But I'm pretty careful with foot selection. I don't need to carry a rock plate around. I will tell you what they have in it They have the what's what's common in many of their shoes And I think one of the differentiators for for for the the shoe itself the shoe company is is they have a folkrum Midsole and they say that's for quick transition boy it sounds fast It well if I say it fast you won't even understand it But I I didn't, I just liked the way the shoe, you know,

as I ran on the shoe, it felt good,

but I really didn't know that I was folk-ramming

from one into the next. But it felt good, so maybe it was. Okay. So on the other side of the coin, what is one thing that you would like to see changed or something that you didn't like about it? You know what's got the release anything I don't like about it?

I ran on the trails with it. I've run on the road with it in fact I just did a marathon a road marathon and it was in my in my shoes selection in my top two to wear on that marathon so it was it was so you would have actually used this trail shoe on the road oh yeah you know I like to shoot I like to shoot it was right now in my in my lineup of shoes. I had to consider it was my top two spots for that marathon run.

So interesting.

Yeah.

Well, you know, they must know what they're doing.

I just looked up and I saw something that said they've been building running shoes since

1916.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, 1916.

1916?

Yeah.

That's before people started running.

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