I’m on my last pair of the discontinued Inov8 XTalon 240, and am looking for a new shoe. The only two useful reviews I’ve found on are here and here. The reviews confirmed what I expected, namely that the rubber and groundfeel are good, the stack and drop seem unnecessarily high for the type of shoe they seem to be going for, and the goretex is goretex.
Performance-wise, if anyone has used either of these, I’m interested to know where they fall on the trail runner/light boot continuum, how the stack height influences stability and groundfeel, and if the goretex is bothersome, especially drying out after a dunking.
Fit-wise, I usually wear a 39.5 in Euro and want opinions on if I should try my usual size or go up or down. As far as I can tell, I have a “Roman” foot with a medium arch and neither heel nor forefoot is particularly wide.
