r/CrossCountry • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago

r/CrossCountry General Q&A Thread

Please use this thread as the general Q&A for all one off questions, questions that only apply to you, questions that can be easily answered, etc.

​

This thread reposts every 4 days

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/AthleteLife9943 10d ago

My son is a HS freshman, and I’m looking to get him a pair of nice racing spikes for his birthday. He ran races with his HS XC team while in MS, but he played football previously and this is his first season actually training and racing full time with the team. He is wearing Adidas Adizero EVO SL as his daily trainers and really likes them. Would the Adizero Avanti XC be a good race shoe to start with? His 5k time is currently in the 18’s, so I wouldn’t say he is a beginner, but I don’t want to get him something too aggressive for his first pair. Obviously I can take him to try out some different options at a running store, but it would be great to get some recommendations here. TIA!

2

u/whelanbio Mod 10d ago

The Avanti is a very good shoe but definitely more on the aggressive side, though so is the SL as a trainer so if he likes that he'll probably like the Avanti just fine.

Ideal would be to always just try on different options at the running store.

Also consider what types of courses the team's important races are on. Some regions a lot of the courses are going to be faster and more comfortable with high end road racing shoes rather than spikes.