Peculiar Product Test #1: X-Socks Speed One Socks
April 22, 2009Since upping my mileage after Christmas I’ve been getting sore toes where, I assume, my feet are moving inside my trainers. The other day I’m on a running shop website and see running socks, and it occurs to me that maybe my £1-a-pair ‘sports socks’ are exacerbating matters.
X-Socks Speed One Socks
So I look at the most popular pairs and pick the X-Socks Speed One socks. They’re supposedly reinforced in all the right places, anatomically shaped, with air conditioning channels, ankle and achilles tendon support and most importantly have toe-tip protectors. It says on the packet that they are sprint and medium distance socks, but they have heel padding so I can’t see why they can’t be an all-rounder (probably so you have to buy more than one pair depending on how far you’re running).
Since they arrived at the beginning of the month I’ve run in them 5 times and they’re fast becoming my favourite socks.
So what can I actually say about a sock? Yes, they’re pretty nice. Quite probably the most comfortable socks I’ve ever tried, but that isn’t exactly saying a whole lot. They’re made of a number of TMd materials with names like “Mythlan” and “Robor” and it’s quite a noticeable difference from cotton and elastic. They keep your feet pretty cool and (well, less sweaty) and I get the impression that they won’t lose their shape in the wash for quite a while.
Though at £9.50 a pair I suppose I’ll have to save them for race day.
Feel free to comment if you think I should try out a new bit of kit, but if I see the words “running” and “skirt” in the same sentence I might have to hurt you.
Running. Skirt.
Okay that was just cruel and uneccessary, even if you only look at the syntax. I think you should write something about running tops and the materials they are made from (like you were telling me about the other day) also running shorts (ranked in order of their ability to make my legs look tanned and muscly).
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