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Chris Pope, director of footwear, takes us through details of new Sylan 2 trail race shoe
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This is Dominic Layfield for Road Trail
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Run. I'm at the running event 2025 in
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San Antonio, Texas. I'm at the Octterix
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booth with Chris Pope, uh, director of
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footwear. So, uh, Chris, you have an
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exciting new shoe to show us.
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Yeah. Yeah, we do. Um, so this is our
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Siland 2. Um, we we sort of sometimes
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approach shoes through a evolutionary uh
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direction, but we'd like to say that
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this one is more of a revolution. Uh if
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I can actually go into the parts and
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pieces, you can see that this is our
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first shoe to utilize super critical
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foam and then we also have a carbon
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composite plate. We really wanted to
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make sure the athletes get stability in
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really technical terrain. Um so we have
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a TPE
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um tub essentially that the super
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critical goes in. And this is just
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really going to give you that dynamic
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stability and and really enable you to
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go fast on pretty technical terrain.
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We've actually developed this alongside
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um our full roster of athletes, but
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Jasmine Laer in particular has been
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running in it and Jesse McCauley
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actually won the Squamish 20K out the
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gate. First time wearing the shoes, so
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that was pretty exciting. Um overall,
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you know, we've got this really great
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package that comes together with this um
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fully knitted tongue and anti-deb.
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Um, we've got this custom engineered uh
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woven upper as well for that high
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support in technical terrain, but
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amazing breathability, too. And then to
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kind of round things off on the bottom,
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we've got VBR Mega Grip. Um, with this
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custom lugs so that it won't retain any
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mud. We learned some lessons from the
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first one. Um, it it held mud a little
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bit, so this one won't hold any. It's
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it's really going to shed. And then we
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talk about some of the technical aspects
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of the shoe. It's going to be a 20 26 uh
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drop. Um
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and yeah, it's
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a 20 26 stack height.
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Y
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in a six six mil drop in in the last
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Yeah.
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And do you know the the weight?
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And it's around 270.
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So it's it's pretty light. It's
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basically going to be our fastest
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men's nine.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. So it's it all kind of adds up to
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being our fastest trail offering.
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Lovely. And when is that available?
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This is going to be coming out in March
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of 26.
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And do you know the US pricing?
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Uh, I believe, yeah, 220.
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Lovely. Thank you so much, Chris. Thank
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you very much.