I Bought the £39 Lidl Carbon Running Shoe... how bad was it?!

Lidl have probably made their money back from vloggers checking out if the Lidl shoe is any good 😂

Why are people comparing them with trainers 10x the price of these lidl ones! Compare them to another £40 trainer! If this encourages some people to run then surely a good thing.

Would be interesting to cut these open and see if that is actually a proper full length carbon plate inside. I know the Athlete Special did this with a cheap pair the other week and the plate only extended a little further than the visible area underneath.

I found these shoes not to be true to size they were a bit on the Lidl side 😂

Just remember in most carbon shoes the plate is there to stabilise the superfoam. This shoe has no superfoam so the plate is basically pointless! Sure it might add a slight bit to energy return but not nearly as much as just having better foam in the first place!

Out of curiosity and a desire to try carbon, I bought the Lidl shoes. On my first run, I improved my 5K PB by 2.5 minutes compared to the time I ran in the Adidas Ultraboost. On subsequent runs, I am always faster in these shoes than in shoes without carbon. Considering the price, I think they are perfectly fine for runs up to 10 km. There is nothing to worry about.

My local parkrun is more of a muddy endurance test than a speed run so I may get a pair just to thrash around in.

do my eyes deceive me??? Ben parkes is reviewing the lining red hare 9 ultra holy so excited for that one

Been running for about 35 years, and at one period worked in a sports shop selling shoes and had "training on technology" from various brands. As a result, I realised fairly early on that high cost is no guarantee of comfort, performance or durability. I also realised that the differing technologies all tend to be 90% marketing, 10% science. I've done good runs in expensive shoes, and arguably the same runs in very cheap ones. There's often not much difference.

For some reason I just kept hearing the "Little Shoe" instead of the "Lidl Shoe"😂. Love the video!