Oh, man! Hopefully the Timp 5 can welcome you to the Altra family and not be a huge turn-off. Durability is the biggest question mark for the Timps, and Altra really needs them to land as an suitable replacement for the Mont Blancs with the direction it seems like things are headed in 2024.

You rock! Thanks so much.

Thanks, Alex! I started scripting a video about the road back from injury, but that is a video that would be a huge time commitment that it turned out I wasn't prepared for. I'm optimistic on the LP8 durability in the upper, at least for about 400 mi. I'm wondering about the outsole, but it will last a long time on snow and ice!

@@KentMearig A video about recovery from injury would be very interesting! It will be very cool if you do it! In Lone Peaks, my main complaints are about the upper bracket. At 6x it started to break at 400km. I REALLY like the sneakers themselves. It's like slippers :) At the sale I bought another pair of 6 and 7 to try.

My pleasure! Hopefully the new shoes help you move through a lot of wonderful miles!

I would say that these new 8s definitely carry over some of feel of the 7s, but maybe it's dialed back a little bit toward the earlier versions.

Thanks! Hope I can wrap my mind around putting out videos with a message that matters to people.

Lone Peak 8s aren't going to have the absolute best traction on wet surfaces in Thailand, but I still think they're a great travel/exploration shoe, comfortable and capable.

Yeah, the LP line is in no ways a high cushion shoe, and the built in stone guard only goes so far.

The new Olympus would work well for you.

@@stevenshorten6184 hopefully the sizing is similar to LPs

I'm assuming you're familiar with the Escalante from Altra, and maybe you've tried them. I definitely wouldn't describe them as having a matching fit to the lone peak, but they might be as close as you can get.

The Escalante Racer is a much better fit than the Escalante 3. If you can find the older Altra Viho that fit like the Lone Peaks. You could also try the Paradigm.

I run the LP in a lot of conditions where water is everywhere, so it's more important to me that they run well even while soaked than that they can keep some amount of moisture out. That's just the nature of running trails in Southeast Alaska. I would say they're right down the middle of the road in terms of warmth, not super warm or super cool/breathable.

I run about 90% of my miles in the original Altra Mont Blanc. I'm about to start using my 6th pair, and I'm averaging close to 650 miles per pair.

@@KentMearig ah ok, what shoe do you use for general walking in ? I was using Altra running shoe to walk in but started to cause problems because of the stack height

@@truman3.0 I wear Escalantes when I’m at work, and I use the Lone Peaks for most hiking when I don’t need boots or sandals.

I've run in a couple versions of the Timps, my main and strong complaint being that they have had HUGE durability issues in almost every iteration. For that reason, I have stocked up on the Mont Blanc and not made any attempt to acquire the latest update to the Timp line.

Hopefully so. I cut it from the video, but I was going to mention that the "new" upper material looks a lot like what I remember of the upper across the forefoot on the 6s.

I had 11s in the 7 (if that makes sense), and I always felt I could have gone down a half size. I went down a half size to 10.5 for the 8s, and they feel just right. Sometimes Altra is inconsistent even from pair to pair, but mine feel very close to the last two versions.

@@jdelarunz Hope everything works out great for you! Got to love running shoe discounts.

Thanks for the feedback. I worked pretty hard on the captions, so hopefully those helped.