kinda disagree with vomero, at least as a forefoot striker doing an 8mile long run at a very slow pace killed my feet after the run. meanwhile on a 10 mile slow run with the novablast, my feet were un-phased. I think has to deal with the blend of the zoom x cushioning on the vomero, because on invincible 3s i could go long miles and not worry about my feet.
Just like Novablast 3 I had to go down half a size. I don’t have narrow feet. I have a mixed feelings about them. I like somethings better about the 4 and somethings better about version 3. Overall I think Novablast 4 was a good update and is faster.
@@philipppuchner1115 but can’t I though? If I’ve been wearing one size across brands in sports shoes for over thirty years and now after thirty years they are too small, especially with the expansion of feet from running, logic is telling me I can generalize that for the most part. It’s just advice and my recommendation is all it is. You can take it or don’t, like food. But I don’t want to hear a single person come crying to me in the comments talking about, “They’re too small!”
@@RunningInJapan No ;) I have a way longer right foot which is EU 45,5 or, if translated from UK/US/Whatever sizes, between EU 45 (rounded down) and EU 46 (rounded up). In an old pair of Asics GT-2000 (i think #4) the EU 45 was definately(!) too small and the EU 46 was it, but also subjectively just barely. Fast forward centuries, had run maybe a few times a year with newer GT-2000 (#9 i think) EU 46, I have the Novablast 4 TR. In EU 46, just because. Also Noosa Tri 15 in EU 45. Also a new pair of Novablast 2 from a second hand platform (but new! unused!) in EU 46 per chance and that also fit. After then trying on the Kayano Lite 3, Superblast, Nimbus 26 in EU 45 and EU 46, I went for the smaller EU 45! I HATE swimming in the shoes, "boats"! I have very low volume feet, at most medium width and a very low volume heel, therefore in climbing shoes, I always have to go half size smaller to get a good fit. My feet are for like La Sportiva climbing shoes - without the often way too fat heels. My point i want to come to: Way too many people with broader feet get into narrower shoes and then take them way too large. The shoes are just too narrow for them, not too small (in size and length). Surely, in climbing shoes that could be extreme; in runnig shoes, which are all more or less unisex and have much volume, to fit the most amount of feet possible, to sell as many pairs of shoes as possible, it is not that extreme. Asics is known somehow to fit a little narrow. For me, they are fat boats! But probably out there are enough people with broader feet than the regular Asics model are constructed for and would need a wide version, but go for the normal and take it larger. I HATE it when you cannot do even simple sidesteps or something because the fking shoes are soo big. So, no, you cannot generalize it going up. YOU may, someone else may, but for sure not the majority of people. I am for sure not the only exception ;) Of course, it your honest feedback and this deserves absolute appreciation, but if sometone hears you hve to size up, then orders the shoe in that size (instead of trying it on in the store or ordering multiple pairs), he or she ends up with a too large pair. I've came across a few of those people seeling their running shoes on second hand plattforms because they were told to size up and wer unhappy, had different types of "problems", were fed up with the shoe and sold them. And that's not how it should be. Same as sizing climbing shoes: NO one should give general(!) recommendations, because every foot fits differently in every shoe, everyone climbs different stuff and different difficulties, etc. One could just give your own example, but just as an example (xyz works for me, but that may not be the case for many others, especially YOU, young fella) and not as a generalization. Sure, if many testers, people, etc have the feeling that the shoe is small or large, it has more weight. But until now, I just came across tests which say tts (true to size). Never have i seen, read, or heard to go up in size in asics runnig shoes. What I have read is, that in the past, Asics runnign shoes fit smaller, that THEN, tts was often too small and you had to go up half a size. That would explain how my GT-2000 #4 were too small in EU45 - half size up in EU 46 they fit but barely, and now, every single Asics running shoe in EU 46 fit bigger, larger, longer and in EU 45 they fit, but I am really at the fron with my fat big toe. But otherwise I would swin in those fking boats :) To you: When you say trhat your feet grew over time, then you probably don't have the same shoe size any more, maybe your feet are now a half a size bigger, larger, etc :) The someonecrying: Never have I read an comment to all the other tests (which say tts for THEM) that the shoe fit too small. So, if you don't try on the shoes and then buy what fits best for you, the utmost stupidest thing one could ever do is search for a TH-cam which says the shoe fitted them smaller and cry in the comments about it :) For me: no upsizing in Asics running shoes, also in many other tests and testers, therefore no general advice for upsizing possible :)
Just got these and I’m pretty happy with them. A solid mix of comfort and performance imo.
@@SemiAI-.- which colour way did you like and enjoy in the end?
kinda disagree with vomero, at least as a forefoot striker doing an 8mile long run at a very slow pace killed my feet after the run. meanwhile on a 10 mile slow run with the novablast, my feet were un-phased. I think has to deal with the blend of the zoom x cushioning on the vomero, because on invincible 3s i could go long miles and not worry about my feet.
Well done and God bless.
Cheers.
Just like Novablast 3 I had to go down half a size. I don’t have narrow feet. I have a mixed feelings about them. I like somethings better about the 4 and somethings better about version 3. Overall I think Novablast 4 was a good update and is faster.
Up size or true size?
@@imanloxs7667 100% up size. If you don’t, you’ll be asking for trouble. Believe me when I say that.
@@RunningInJapan Depends on your feet. You absolutely cannot generalize that!
@@philipppuchner1115 but can’t I though? If I’ve been wearing one size across brands in sports shoes for over thirty years and now after thirty years they are too small, especially with the expansion of feet from running, logic is telling me I can generalize that for the most part.
It’s just advice and my recommendation is all it is. You can take it or don’t, like food. But I don’t want to hear a single person come crying to me in the comments talking about, “They’re too small!”
@@RunningInJapan No ;)
I have a way longer right foot which is EU 45,5 or, if translated from UK/US/Whatever sizes, between EU 45 (rounded down) and EU 46 (rounded up).
In an old pair of Asics GT-2000 (i think #4) the EU 45 was definately(!) too small and the EU 46 was it, but also subjectively just barely.
Fast forward centuries, had run maybe a few times a year with newer GT-2000 (#9 i think) EU 46, I have the Novablast 4 TR. In EU 46, just because. Also Noosa Tri 15 in EU 45. Also a new pair of Novablast 2 from a second hand platform (but new! unused!) in EU 46 per chance and that also fit.
After then trying on the Kayano Lite 3, Superblast, Nimbus 26 in EU 45 and EU 46, I went for the smaller EU 45!
I HATE swimming in the shoes, "boats"! I have very low volume feet, at most medium width and a very low volume heel, therefore in climbing shoes, I always have to go half size smaller to get a good fit.
My feet are for like La Sportiva climbing shoes - without the often way too fat heels.
My point i want to come to: Way too many people with broader feet get into narrower shoes and then take them way too large.
The shoes are just too narrow for them, not too small (in size and length).
Surely, in climbing shoes that could be extreme; in runnig shoes, which are all more or less unisex and have much volume, to fit the most amount of feet possible, to sell as many pairs of shoes as possible, it is not that extreme.
Asics is known somehow to fit a little narrow.
For me, they are fat boats!
But probably out there are enough people with broader feet than the regular Asics model are constructed for and would need a wide version, but go for the normal and take it larger.
I HATE it when you cannot do even simple sidesteps or something because the fking shoes are soo big.
So, no, you cannot generalize it going up.
YOU may, someone else may, but for sure not the majority of people.
I am for sure not the only exception ;)
Of course, it your honest feedback and this deserves absolute appreciation, but if sometone hears you hve to size up, then orders the shoe in that size (instead of trying it on in the store or ordering multiple pairs), he or she ends up with a too large pair.
I've came across a few of those people seeling their running shoes on second hand plattforms because they were told to size up and wer unhappy, had different types of "problems", were fed up with the shoe and sold them.
And that's not how it should be.
Same as sizing climbing shoes: NO one should give general(!) recommendations, because every foot fits differently in every shoe, everyone climbs different stuff and different difficulties, etc.
One could just give your own example, but just as an example (xyz works for me, but that may not be the case for many others, especially YOU, young fella) and not as a generalization.
Sure, if many testers, people, etc have the feeling that the shoe is small or large, it has more weight.
But until now, I just came across tests which say tts (true to size). Never have i seen, read, or heard to go up in size in asics runnig shoes. What I have read is, that in the past, Asics runnign shoes fit smaller, that THEN, tts was often too small and you had to go up half a size.
That would explain how my GT-2000 #4 were too small in EU45 - half size up in EU 46 they fit but barely, and now, every single Asics running shoe in EU 46 fit bigger, larger, longer and in EU 45 they fit, but I am really at the fron with my fat big toe.
But otherwise I would swin in those fking boats :)
To you: When you say trhat your feet grew over time, then you probably don't have the same shoe size any more, maybe your feet are now a half a size bigger, larger, etc :)
The someonecrying:
Never have I read an comment to all the other tests (which say tts for THEM) that the shoe fit too small.
So, if you don't try on the shoes and then buy what fits best for you, the utmost stupidest thing one could ever do is search for a TH-cam which says the shoe fitted them smaller and cry in the comments about it :)
For me: no upsizing in Asics running shoes, also in many other tests and testers, therefore no general advice for upsizing possible :)