I’m less likely to pick my trail shoes based on conditions than I am to pick a shoe I simply haven’t worn in a while. That being said, on the road I tend to wear flats at the track, nike free’s on daily runs and some lightweight asics trainers on longer road runs.

Now if only I could help my wife understand this so she wouldn’t give me so much grief on all my running shoes!

I also have 3 pairs of road shoes but they’re all the same model (Brooks Adrenalines). I’m definitely more of a trail shoe junkie!

For trail running, I also have an old pair of North Face trail shoes that I don’t really like and need to be recycled and a pair of Vibram 5-Fingers that will probably start seeing more use now that it’s warming up. And, I will also head out barefoot depending upon the trail conditions.

For the roads, I have a lot of different types of shoes, but mostly just run in my racing flats, the Vibrams or barefoot.

I’ve yet to run a trail race over 50k or a road race over 50 miles so I’m not sure how well they’ll hold up for longer races.

We actually had a foot of snow a month or so ago…crazy for TX…but I never did go for a run in it.

We usually have snow like that this time of year here in southern Maine.

Not this year though…it snowed while I was doing my 1 More Mile for Sunshine fund raiser, and since then we haven’t gotten any accumulation (but record rain fall) and all the snow has now disappeared, just about.