There’s nothing fairly like a run in nature: bushes round you, a recent breeze within the air, grime at your ft, and perhaps even a stream burbling within the distance. However entering into path operating can really feel intimidating—particularly for those who don’t have the best gear to get began.
Enter: The Lululemon Blissfeel Path, the model’s first off-road shoe that was designed to assist ease runners onto these peaceable paths. As a part of SELF’s 2023 Sneaker Awards, I examined out a pair to see simply how nicely it handles trickier terrain.
Who it’s for
The Blissfeel Path is an on a regular basis path operating shoe, or extra precisely, a “street to path” sneaker, as the corporate describes it. That signifies that it’s rugged sufficient to guard your ft on uneven floor, however not so cumbersome that it might probably’t go on the pavement too. To me, the shoe is for runners who need to give trails a strive, however most likely aren’t going to leap into actually intense ones proper off the bat.
Christa Sgobba
Out of the field
The “street to path” facet was sturdy when unboxing these: Other than the lugged outsole on the underside (which helps present traction) and little extra hardiness alongside the higher, the footwear look loads like an everyday operating shoe—there’s no excessive ankle help or laceless fastening that you simply see with some trail-specific fashions. I’ve tried path footwear with each these options up to now, and so they carry type of an…intense really feel to them that I feel is likely to be a little bit off-putting to these dipping their ft into a brand new sort of run.
Match and really feel
Like all Lululemon sneakers, the Blissfeel Path was designed particularly for a girl’s foot, and that could be why I used to be in a position to put on my common avenue shoe measurement as an alternative of going up a half measurement, like I usually do with trainers.
Once I tried these on, the shoe actually hugged the curves of my foot, giving it extra of a streamlined look than I anticipated with a path shoe. My foot felt cradled and supported, and though I wouldn’t name it cushiony, it positively felt snug. To me, it was a welcome aid from some path footwear, which may simply really feel like loads as quickly as you slip them on.