Brooks Caldera 6 Trail Shoe Review. The Minivan of trail shoes?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- Finn and I go deep into our findings across 100+ miles of running in the Brooks Caldera 6. Don't forget to enter the contest where Running Warehouse will be giving away two pairs of the Brooks Caldera 6.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:37 Contest
1:45 Shoe Stats
3:40 Testing Criteria
5:56 Fit
9:56 What is this shoe designed for?
15:12 Value
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I want to try hard at the Eugene Half Marathon but only goal is to end with enough energy and happiness to JV KICK on Hayward Field!!
Great first video guys! Looking forward to watching more shoe reviews.
We appreciate it!
Great review. Love the format. My big goal is the Forgotten Florida 100.
Great information. I am intrigued by the new Caldera. Summer goal is to finish Palisades Ultra Series 50 mile. Longest race. Thank you and keep up the good work!
This is Ryan Ghelfi, T&T founder. My goal is to get back on a 100 mile start line!
Appreciate all the innovative ways you guys are evolving the sport!
Goals for next year include Boston and Miwok 100k. A nice 3 week turnaround there.
Great idea!
Hope my Achilles cooperates this winter so I can be prepared for a 50mi trail event in summer of 23!
Run 1000 miles. Run sub 6 minute mile. Exciting to see what you guys create here!
Great first video guys! Can’t wait to follow along 🙌🏼 My running goal for the first half of 2023 is to make the US Team for the World Trail Champs at either the Fourmidable 50k or Lake Sonoma 50 Miler.
Stoked on the new channel.
My goal for 2022 is to unlock the 50mile distance.
I DNFd my first ever 59mile 07/22 at TRTER, ‘23 will be the year
My biggest goal for the year is to run my first 100 miler! I've got a 50k and 3 days of syllamo on the docket already. Great review though. Happy to have other folks do some intense research for me before buying.
First race on the calendar is Gorge 50k. Goal for the year is completing a 100k :)
Excited to see more trail shoe reviews!
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I’m excited to run faster uphill. And to watch some awesome show reviews
Don't neglect the downhill running was well 😉
Awesome!! My goal race for 2023 is Denali 135 (my 1st >100 mile ultra, eek)!
Love the idea of this channel! A goal of mine is to take top 10 @ a Cirque Series race!
Thanks for the awesome content! My goal for the year is to race the PDA by Val d’aran! It’ll be my first ultra!
Starting the season at Gorge 50k, and would hope to grab a PB, and then hoping to carry the momentum over to Cayuga 50k in June!
In 2023, definitely want to go for a 100 mile PR at Canyons 100 mile inaugural event. Then sub 3h at CIM!
Guys I dig the idea and looking forward to nerding out on the new trail shoes!
My goal is a solid finish at the Tarawera 102k in February. I’d like to beat my time from Bandera this year.
Not so easy with the extra elevation and no support crew but I’m ready for it!
I just want to run again after having a baby 🤣
CP off to a great start. Goal: healthy training and racing all of 2023. Just now emerging from a year of disabling injury
end-to-end runs of the KATY Trail in Missouri and Cowboy Trail in Nebraska
2023 goal: Do first full marathon and do first 50k Trail run, thanks for the review on the shoes!
Great video! Do you think you guys will review the Catamount 2!? Hoping for that one!
We are working to get the Catamount 2 onto the review list, hopefully sooner rather than later 👍
Going to try my first backyard ultra. So interested in what my limits are in that format, and now I have a channel to help me find the right shoe
We're stoked to supply you with all the latest shoe reviews! What has been your favorite shoe to run in for 2022?
@@ConversationalPace Nike Zegama has been surprisingly great for me. Also love the Craft CTM Ultra.
Thanks guys. Spring goal is GA Death Race and goal for the year is sub 24 hour 100M.
I'd be interested to hear your opinions about what other shoe is most comparable to the one you're reviewing,
Found out about this from the Single Track podcast. Goal for 2023 is Lavarado 80k. Ran last 50k in the Cascadia and was looking for something with a bit more cushion for the extra 30k.
Two big goals for 2023 are to run sub-2:30 in the marathon and set an FKT on a 563km trail in Japan
3,000 miles in 2023. Let’s go!
I have a delusional (probably) goal of running the Vermont 100 this year. I’m planning to enter the lottery for VT 100 soon, and THIS SHOE is likely what I’ll run it in!
Thanks for the review Brett and Finn. I’m looking for minivan-class stability but don’t plan to run distances over 50 miles. Would the Caldera 6 still be a good shoe for me?
My 2023 objectives are still coming into focus but I’ll likely do the Borderlands 50K (a new race in SLC in May), DC Peaks 50 mile, and three or four 40ish mile non-race long outings.
Looking forward to more great CP content. Thanks!
The Caldera 6 would definitely still be a great option at 50 miles. Especially a more technical race where the extra stability is important. Where the shoe really will be beneficial is during your training for those races, having a reliable shoe that can handle a ton of gnarly training miles.
Starting the year at the South Devon Marathon running the coast in South England before I'm building for my first UTMB race in Alsace France to get some stones.
Really hoping you give the new The North Face releases especially the Summit Vectiv Pro and the Enduris 3 a good test. Could be a great daily trainer race day combo!
Best of luck with your training! We've got the new North Face lineup very high on our priority list to get some testing miles in!
Run my first mountain ultra and run the Decalibron in CO
Goal is to run one ultra every month and crush em all. Thanks in advance for the shoes Running Warehouse!
My main goal is to get back on the starting line. I took 2022 off and would love to get back to serios training and toe the line of a 50k.
2023 Goals are the Speedgoat 28k, then maybe the California International Marathon in December…
Goals for 2023, still waiting on some lotteries, but hoping for 2500 running miles and at least 400,000ft of vert. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on more shoes!
Lots of trail time in your future! Any shoes you are interested about for 2023?
@@ConversationalPace I've got a credit at the local running store so thinking about the Tecton's but I've heard mixed reviews on their durability, so waiting. I did just pick up a pair of the Salomon Pulsar Trails and am super impressed, set some downhill PRs in them out at Smith Rocks recently. Be curious to hear your thoughts on those. Also, don't really know what new shoes are in the works for 23, might be interesting to know what shoes you're excited about hitting the market this year.
@@DSRenner the only durability issues I've heard of for the Tecton was outsole peeling on super technical terrain. There are definitely other shoes out there that get more miles per dollar. They do have a great fun per dollar ratio 😅
Good change of pace. Up for 2023 will be my first 100 miler. Not to be negetive but it would be great to get an additional tester on the east coast for a technical terrain opinion. It seems nearly all shoe review shows are from reviewers who don't experience technical terrain like we have on the east coast which is not like any other terrain in the US.
Thanks for watching, and I totally hear ya on that one. I do hope that in the future I am able to have reviewers from different regions to cater to a broader audience.
Hey Neal! The random number generate has chosen you as a winner of a Brooks Caldera 6! send an email to brett@conversationalpace.run so I can verify your identity and then get your sizing and shipping info. Happy New Year!
Hey Neil. Wanted to try one more time to get your shipping and sizing info for the Brooks Caldera 6 before I move on to the next winner. If you could reply to the email this comment creates and send to brett@conversationalpace.run, that would be great! This entry will close at 11:59pm PST 1/24
After a down year in ‘22 plan to do a 50mi in the fall of ‘23
Hey Scott, you won a pair of Caldera 6!!!! Send an email to brett@conversationalpace.run so I can verify your identity and then get your sizing and shipping info. Happy New Year!
Goal: under 3:50 Grandma's marathon this coming spring.
Black Canyon 100k 2023. Then maybe either a 100 mile or sub 3:15 Marathon.
Just to carve out time for some consistent running on dirt.
Hello, thank you for posting this video on Caldera 6. I have flat feet and looking for the perfect shoe to wear for Camino de Santiago. Would you recommend this shoe for that purpose? I intend to walk for 18 to 20 kms a day for 35-40 days. Thank you.
On paper, this shoe would be fantastic for the Camino. I would definitely recommend trying it on in a store if you're able to, because even a shoe that checks all the right boxes needs to fit your foot properly for such long days. The Caldera certainly has he cushion and grip for the Camino! It would really just all come down to the fit of the individual wearer.
@@ConversationalPace thank you for taking the time to reply. I will definitely give it a try!
Tried them on, sent them straight back. They are wildly less comfortable than expected, also the toe box is really narrow and shallow (toes touching upper) for my Dutch feet.
Ahh that's a bummer to hear. The toe box definitely isn't the roundest or highest volume. We should be getting Caldera 7 in shortly, which did get an upper update, so be on the lookout for that review with some fit comparisons to the Caldera 6
My goal is to get top 10 at the Ragged 50k (the 50k national championship for this year) here in the upper valley of NH
I really wanted to love this shoe, as I love Brooks but aftyer 200KMs, the narrowness in the toebox so bad, that I cant use the shoe anymore.
It would cause a serious pain on the outside edge of my foot and no way to relieve it. Lock down was also a problem if I loosened the laces, very disappointing.
I noticed that while the entire toe box was wide enough for me, the shape of the shoe caused my big toe to rub against it, even though I had plenty of space on the other side. In that category of shoe, the Hoka Mafate has still been one of my top choices.
Just want to get in a full race year without injuries..
In 2023 I'd like to run a PR in the mile 😁
j attends les Caldera 7 debut janvier 2024 pour tester autre choqse qu une Speedgoat 5 , j ai envie de sortir de l emprise de Hoka , et j esperes que cette caldera 7 saura me donner entiere satisfaction .
Je pense que Caldera 7 va opposer une belle victoire au Speedgoat ! (Google Translate)
Got these based on this review, BF discount to 80.
Cant be any good, must be a boring slow shoe right?
Damn i took in on two long runs in the snowy icy hills, superb.
From the hills into the city, superb. On tarmac, very decent.
Beats the Speedgoat 5 by a mile, anything that NB makes.
And they might beat the Asics Trabuco Max 2, my shoe of the year.
Brooks can surprise in a good way!
Love when that happens! And 80 bucks for them is practically making money at that point 🤣
it's crazy cheap, got them for my GF now at 69,-
I need a road shoe version of this shoe (and i seriously hate anything else I have from Brooks: Cascadia 17 went back, the adrenaline 23 GTS is a great shoe to schedule in my rotation if I need a rest day but know in advance I will go out to run anyway. Put this shoe on the calendar and I def will be a good boy.
The Trabuco Max 2 is still a great shoe, but am so in love with the Caldera 6 that currently the Max 2 is unused;
The Caldera 6 just disappear on the feet, nothing is magic good nothing seems great, it is just .. gone..
I think that is why it is overlooked in the reviews, and the fact that it is a boring Brooks.
But it is soo good, I run this with a gaitor instead of the Speedgoat 5 GTX, and I hate wet frozen feet.
Looking at the Caldera 7 I, and i feel this might end up to be the NB fresh foam trail X which is my worst shoe of the year.
Might be a good series for CP: matching beloved trail shoes with their road equivalent. @@ConversationalPace
Thanks for the feedback on the Caldera! We've definitely thought about a road equivalent section, but we've found that we desire in a trail shoe isn't always the same as for a road shoe, and that many of the road equivalents don't end up being what we actually want on the road. With that being said, from a dimension standpoint, some shoes that are similar to that Caldera in terms of width and stack height that might be worth looking at are the New Balance FF 1080, Topo Specter, Hoka Clifton, Brooks Ghost Max 👍
Run sub 3 marathon and run first 5O miler.
Sub 4:20 mile
That's moving!
Sub 5hrs at Fourmidable 50k!
My goal is 2 50ks and 4 30ks
The shoe is/was a huge disappointment - and the worst running shoe I’ve ever run in. Restrictive upper wi no give, low volume and narrow in an old skool style. The ride is just hilariously vague - there is no feel of what you are running on surface wise. Is just as bad on technical trails as they are on smooth forest path. Also heavy enough to notice. Stack makes them even worse wi a divorced from earth feeling to rival the very worst. Know of 3 other runners who sent them back to Brooks quickly. I kept going, they got worse and then sold em on eBay for £30.
That's a bummer to hear it didn't work out! Out of curiosity, what shoes have worked well for you recently?