This Was a Pleasant Surprise

September 19, 2025

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your spouse lets you buy more shoes: https://supwell.circle.so/checkout/marketplace-and-forum-ld3nz (along with DAILY motivation, the most supportive hobby jogger community, best buy, sell and trade shoe marketplace and exclusive Hobby Jogger gear discounts) The Mount to Coast R1 is a lightweight non-plated shoe designed for road ultramarathons. Priced at $160, it's carving out its own niche in a distance running market dominated by high-stack behemoths like the Hoka Skyward X ($225) and Asics Superblast 2 ($200). In this video, I give an overview of the R1, take it out for some miles and let you know my thoughts. If you're going to buy any of the gear or shoes mentioned, use my Running Warehouse link to support the channel: Mount to Coast R1 https://www.runningwarehouse.com/search-mens_nocat.html?sort=no&start=0&count=30&searchtext=mount%20to%20coast&prevsearch=catpage-MOUNTCOAST&from=supwell 0:00 Intro 0:56 Overview 14:39 Weigh In 18:50 Stack Check 22:11 Fit & Feel 27:44 Running in the Mount to Coast R1 33:08 Post-Run Thoughts Thanks for watching! Here's how you can support the channel. 1. Join my app to take your training to the next level. Buy/sell/trade running shoes and swap training and shoe advice with fellow hobby joggers: https://supwell.circle.so/checkout/marketplace-and-forum-ld3nz 2. Buy your new shoes, running gear and fuel through my Running Warehouse link. I also have a discount code on the app above that gets you 20% off apparel and 10% off fuel and discount https://www.runningwarehouse.com/?from=supwell 3. Get matched with the best running shoe for you at https://runningshoematcher.com (I built the running shoe database and matching logic. It's pretty cool and actually works) 4. Buy a hobby jogger hat and other cool Supwell Certified drip at https://hobbyjogger.com 5. Follow the Instagram https://www.instagram.com/supwellrunning/