The New Kids on the Block – True Motion Running Shoes
Blog has been updated on 20/10/2022
True Motion Range
The True Motion Solo is an incredibly versatile everyday trainer come faster-paced session even longer slower runs. The blend of cushioning, weight, and providing such a stable platform for your foot to work from is a runner’s dream. Ideal for on the roads, track, or even very light gravel tracks.
- Lightweight road running shoe
- 8mm drop, 22mm/14mm
- 220g in men’s size 8UK
- 195g in women’s size 6UK
True Motion Solo Running Shoe Men’s >> Women’s >>
The True Motion Nevos is the do-it-all shoe in the range. It has a great blend of soft cushioning on landing ideal for longer easier runs to an incredibly pingy feeling toe-off that makes faster runs and sessions go by like a dream.
- Road Running
- 10mm drop 24mm/14mm
- 260g in men’s size 8UK
- 240g in women’s size 6UK
True Motion Nevos Running Shoe Men’s >> Women’s >>
The True Motion Aion Next Gen is built with the goal of comfort, mile after mile and wow does it do that! With heaps of U-Tech cushioning and a spacious fit, it’s the kind of shoe you could wear all day and not even notice.
- Everyday road running shoe
- 10mm drop, 27mm/17mm, however, 0mm drop when your foot sinks into the center of our U-TECH™ allowing for a dynamic foot-neutral offset
- 270g in men’s size 8UK
- 230g in women’s size 6UK
True Motion Aion Next Gen Running Shoe Men’s >> Women’s >>
The True Motion Elements is built on the same silhouette as the Nevos just with a grippy outsole. It’s a great all-rounder if you run on a mix of surfaces through your weekly runs. From leaving your house for a few miles on the road to getting to light canal towpaths and onto more technical terrain the Elements can handle it.
- Trail running
- 10mm drop 24mm/14mm
- 290g in men’s size 8UK
- 250g in women’s size 6UK
True Motion Elements Running Shoe Men’s >> Women’s >>
Special Purchase!
Accelerate Price £120 RRP £150
The True Motion Aion is a shoe you can spend all day in with the aim to be comfortable. The True Motion Aion features their U-Tech cushioning system that centres your heel to the middle of the shoe and gives you a pingy toe off.
- Road Running
- 10mm static drop, 0mm dynamic 25mm/15mm
- 290g in men’s 8UK
- 250g in women’s 6UK
True Motion Aion Running Shoe Men’s >> Women’s >>
OK, here’s the thing.
Right now, within the running industry, there is much talk that running shoe design is becoming more and more dictated by the ‘next thing’ and not science. I recently asked the question:
‘What is becoming of the industry I so love?’
For me, having worked in the running industry since I was 16, having helped with shoe design and tested how many different shoes for magazines and the brands themselves, there is a feeling of disbelief in what I am seeing. Asking what research and science base is there to this ‘new shoe’ I am being shown is to often met with a shrug of the shoulders. ‘It’s what consumers want’.
Oh too often I hear that these days from brands, especially those trying to get onto the shelves at Accelerate. Come on, on what basis? Back it up then… Yeah.
A Breath of fresh air
So what a breath of fresh air to be approached by a company that wanted to talk running mechanics first the shoe second. To talk good technique and providing the foot with a great platform to influence that. I was all ears.
Nothing too soft and unstable under the foot. The platform has to be something the foot can move onto and from. Yes, it has to be cushioned, yet not to firm either. Most of all the heel has to be stable, not wallowing. Back in the early years (80’s into the 90’s) brands were trying to achieve this. External heel counters, introduction of thermal-plastic heel cups, additional support straps and so on. Midsoles were mostly firmer than most of today’s shoes providing that all important base for the foot to sit on and then work from.
Then as midsoles became softer, the problems began and over pronation became a thing. Oh my, they so got that one wrong and here we are today with all the anti-pronation ideas gradually been withdrawn from shoes.
Runners should be the centre of the design process, not the shoe
So here we are, True Motion, a new shoe brand developed by three very clever runners, about runners for runners.
“Countless runner types and even more shoe categories, material battles about the fluffiest cushioning, the best energy return, and carbon plates. Neutral, cushioning, guidance, support, motion control – so many “treatment options“ that all miss the actual cause of the problem. In the end every runner wants the same: a perfect running experience – as comfortable, natural, and efficient as possible.
That is exactly what we strive to achieve. Your running experience is our motivation. Which is why we turned our backs on the mainstream industry to found True Motion. We unite comfort and support to create something entirely new. Perfunctory category compromises like neutral or support have become obsolete. Once you get to feel this, you will see running shoes with different eyes”.
In truth the True Motion Running Shoe range look just like any other shoe. They use excellent materials, looking for those that will hopefully provide plentiful kilometers of service, be comfortable and do what a running shoe should do, namely cushion us from excess forces during the running cycle. However, they are all about that all important platform for the foot.
What is the best combination of performance improvement and injury risk reduction in running?
“Finally – after more than 25 years of running shoe research and development – we found the answer: it is you! Inspired by evolution, our running shoes are based on the shape and function of human structures. The result: the revolutionary U-TECH™ technology. THE ANSWER IS U.“
Simply a ‘U’ Shaped heel platform helps the centre the heel. This allows the runners joint and limb alignment through the ankle, into the knee and into the hip to be as natural as possible.
“Two years of research resulted in a large-scale study that credibly confirms the superiority of our innovative sole design. True Motion running shoes were compared to the leading running shoes on the market (supported and neutral). 166 legs of 83 runners were studied. 200 variables per stance phase and over 1.3 million pieces of data were collected.”
So for us, here at Accelerate, over a year ago we began our own testing. By running in the True Motion shoes. Initially, it took us a moment, well a couple of runs. Then something quite unusual happened. Off the five pairs we had out on test a unanimous ‘You’re not getting these back!’ Now that is unusual.
Feedback was extremely positive, even to the extent that those with the Solo, the True Motion ‘fast shoe’ was appearing for track and speed sessions. The warm up shoes were coming off, the Solo was going on. In every case. It’s still happening.
That for me is the biggest endorsement any shoe and brand can receive. Time after time, folk wanting to run in the shoes.
We just think if you are on the lookout for a new shoe then the True Motion Range is really worth a try. Pop them onto your radar and see what you think.
About Run Stu
Accelerate Performance and Healthy Run Coaching, Heart rate, Periodisation, Strength & Stability. Business owner @accelerateuk Coach to #TeamAccelerate The open road, fell, moorland and high places. Sunny days, days the wind blows and rain is horizontal - 'You're Alive!' Twitter and Instagram: @RunStuCoachThis entry was posted in Buzz and tagged Accelerate, Road Running, running shoes, Tried and Tested, True Motion by Run Stu. Bookmark the permalink.