The Saucony Peregrine 13 ($140) is the most recent iteration of this fashionable path shoe. We discovered that this model went again to the fundamentals, with plenty of what we cherished in regards to the authentic Saucony Peregrine, which can have been misplaced alongside the way in which in some subsequent iterations. Regardless of some sturdiness issues with a number of the overlays on the higher, we have now discovered it to be a great all-round shoe for a mixture of terrain.
We get pleasure from this shoe a lot that it options in our Greatest Path Operating Sneakers information.
Watch the video beneath for an in depth evaluate.
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Saucony Peregrine 13 Assessment Transcript
Hey and welcome to Path Trials, the video evaluate part of iRunFar. My title is Travis Liles and on this video we have a look at the Saucony Peregrine 13. Let’s test it out.
Let’s begin off by speaking in regards to the specs. This shoe is available in slightly below 9.4 ounces (265 grams) precise weight for a U.S. males’s dimension 9. It has a 4-millimeter drop from heel to toe. It has a luggy outsole. It’s meant to be low and athletic and a great, tight-fitting sort of shoe.
It’s the thirteenth iteration of the Peregrine, and so it’s been round some time. It’s gone via some very fascinating modifications through the years. From the place it began, which was one thing I’ve all the time had a comfortable spot for, certainly one of these early highway operating manufacturers that launched a path shoe that was path particular. It wasn’t simply this current road-shoe mannequin that they slapped a grey higher on, or possibly a darkish blue higher, and added some type of luggy-ness to the underside. They made a selected shoe on the time, and I used to be all the time a fan of it. I preferred the decrease stack peak. I preferred the truth that it was grippy and had some aggressive tread on it.
However the shoe has vacillated through the years. It’s gone in every single place. It began off and the primary a number of iterations have been very very similar to what the shoe began as. Then it hit some stuff within the center that removed rock plates, the shoe obtained actually heavy, simply plenty of stuff modified. I’m joyful to say that on this newest model, it’s very a lot nearer to what the preliminary intent and what most individuals most likely had of their minds in the event that they’ve been path operating for some time, of what the Peregrine initially was.
They try this with some updates. Up to date foam, up to date sock liner, up to date supplies. That’s what we’re going to speak about immediately: all of the modifications, what’s new, what’s completely different, what’s good, what’s not. Let’s stand up shut and private. Let’s see what this factor is all about.
The Saucony Peregrine 13. All photographs: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Saucony Peregrine 13 Outsole
Alright, let’s leap in and begin on the Saucony Peregrine 13 outsole. One of many defining traits of the Peregrine line, actually from its inception, has been a luggy, aggressive outsole. That continues with model 13, albeit a bit bit up to date.
If you happen to’ve worn them up to now, they tended to be a bit like lengthy blades. These are extra chevron wanting, and bigger lugs with more room in between them. The truth is, for a fast comparability, that is the Saucony Peregrine 12 — look again at our Saucony Peregrine 12 evaluate — on the right-hand facet with the bubblegum purple-blue cosmic outsole. You possibly can see there are much more lugs, and they’re smaller. Over on the Peregrine 13, we have now fewer lugs which can be farther spaced out.
The benefit in my testing is that this permits mud to filter out a bit bit higher whereas nonetheless offering grip. You’ve obtained these uphill going through lugs, so that they face backward in order that your traction is behind you, the blades dig in and permit for traction going up. Then there’s some various lug patterning on the again. Primarily on the surface although, are the braking sorts of lugs, after which the center a part of the again.
General, the outsole works rather well — clears out mud a bit higher. It gives what the Peregrine has usually been about, which is sweet traction in a path shoe. This makes use of the PWRTRAC outsole. That’s Saucony’s rubber compound, and in comparison with say the Peregrine 12, this one feels a bit stickier. There’s a bit extra traction once I put on the Peregrine 13 in comparison with the Peregrine 12, particularly on moist issues. However a few of that may very well be due to this lug spacing.
Issues can get in between the tread on this. Whereas on the earlier model, they have been tighter, so it made it tougher for that to occur. I don’t know if it’s essentially the rubber compound or the lug, however total, this has gotten a bit extra traction than the earlier variations, and possibly over any of the Peregrine tractions earlier than. It’s possibly probably the most assured feeling outsole I’ve handled on a Peregrine.
The Saucony Peregrine 13 outsole.
Saucony Peregrine 13 Midsole
After we have a look at the midsole on the rear of the Saucony Peregrine 13, you’ll see that there’s no rock plate or something like that in there. Whenever you transfer as much as the entrance of the shoe, you see this inexperienced coloration inside and that’s the rock plate. Very a lot, while you’re operating downhill, while you’re not heel putting, or in your heels actually laborious, this shoe excels. If you’re somebody that’s in your heels extra usually, you possibly can really feel a bit little bit of that stress and pointy-ness coming via on the again of the shoe as a result of there simply isn’t as a lot to deflect it. As a result of it’s a shorter midsole stack, you don’t have as a lot safety for cushion, for issues to soak up into.
The midsole makes use of PWRRUN. PWRRUN is a medium sort of cushion. What I imply by that’s it’s not overly comfortable, and it’s not overly agency. It’s very a lot a center floor sort of midsole. I believe it’s good. Most likely if I used to be to explain the place this suits, it suits extra towards the energetic facet of cushioning, that means that you simply get a bit extra rebound out of it. That’s actually what the main focus is, it’s type of, “operating quick” and “propulsion ahead,” versus, “I desire a bunch of cushion and luxury.” It’s snug. It walks a pleasant line there. However total, that is positively what I’d name a faster midsole. Whenever you have a look at it, it’s simply single foam all the way in which throughout.
This shoe has a 4-millimeter drop, which is basic within the Peregrine line. You don’t have a ton of stack beneath right here. However you very a lot have sufficient safety. It’s doing sufficient to be a very well-rounded midsole that serves properly in plenty of completely different environments.
The one factor that provides to this shoe that I typically don’t name out fairly often is the sock liner. This sock liner is fairly fascinating, I consider that is the PWRRUN. I’ve obtained another Saucony highway trainers which have such a foam within the midsole and this can be a actually glorious sock liner. It holds up rather well and has plenty of life to it. I’ve obtained miles in these sneakers and it hasn’t pitted out. Plenty of sock liners get pitted out within the heel and within the toes the place all of your stress is. That is very good and cushiony and rebound-y. What this shoe lacks in cushion and a few safety within the midsole, you get a bit bit further within the sock liner. Only a good contact that you simply typically don’t see in sneakers normally.
A medial view of the Saucony Peregrine 13.
Saucony Peregrine 13 Higher
Let’s transfer as much as the Saucony Peregrine 13 higher. The higher is pretty primary, in that it’s simply mesh, for probably the most half, all the way in which round. There aren’t a bunch of overlays creating stuff on the shoe essentially, in relation to anchor factors down. From a consolation standpoint, you don’t have to fret about issues poking towards your foot or hurting or doing something like that. So long as your foot suits, the mesh grips rather well. There are a few of these laces that add a pleasant wrap on high of the foot. General the higher does a reasonably good job of locking your foot down and creating an athletic match. It’s largely gusseted all the way in which down, which is sweet to see, going from the highest eyelet all the way in which down, which creates a pleasant, sock-like really feel. I’d like a bit bit thicker tongue however, you recognize, I’ve made the remark earlier than, that tends to be the way in which that issues are going. The higher appears to be in-built a method that I don’t really feel a ton of stress, even when I’ve to crank the laces down. This may differ relying in your mileage.
The very last thing I’ll name out is all this overlay materials that’s on the higher. It’s fairly minimal for probably the most half, however there isn’t any stitching. There’s a bit bit below these eyelets, these loop eyelets that assist wrap the shoe in your foot. You don’t discover these due to the bootie and sock liner, gusseted tongue state of affairs. However what you possibly can see is a few of these black, darker spots, and that’s really the place this overlay is cut up. It’s coming aside. You possibly can see on the fitting shoe it’s taking place much more so. On the inside facet of the shoe, this overlay is sort of coming all the way in which off.
As a optimistic, what I’m not seeing is any of this mesh being chewed up or an issue as an final result of this, on both facet. You possibly can see these excessive stress areas. The mesh is holding up properly, however this overlay is unquestionably coming off. It’s unglued, it’s unstuck, no matter. Particles has a possible to get down inside. What this was doing for abrasion on the surface, we’re buying and selling that for the truth that it’s not staying caught, that I might doubtlessly get particles down inside, and will trigger some longevity points for the shoe. However because it stands presently, all this apart, the mesh is holding up properly throughout the shoe, and I don’t see any mesh breakdown like I’ve seen most likely in another variations of this shoe up to now.
A lateral view of the Saucony Peregrine 13.
Saucony Peregrine 13 General Impressions
In closing, there’s quite a bit to love in regards to the Saucony Peregrine 13. If you happen to watch my opinions, you recognize I’ve a class. I like a shoe that I can do plenty of various things in, that doesn’t slender me into simply groomed path or simply rugged path, and a shoe that can carry out properly on a highway. As a result of the truth is, on most programs I run, there’s a little little bit of all of that stuff anyway, so it’s good to have a shoe that works throughout all of them. Then I’m not fascinated about, I’ve obtained to lock this shoe down as a result of it’s actually floppy and I’m going to do a protracted downhill. Or it’s sloppy and slaps once I’m on highway and hardpack.
This shoe suits properly. For my foot, it rides good. It does nice on highway. It does nice on groomed path. It does good on messy stuff as a result of the lugs are good and deep. It’s protected with a rock plate on the entrance. It’s low to the bottom so my wonky ankles are much less more likely to flip over, versus one thing possibly greater stack and rather less steady because it pertains to that experience. There’s quite a bit to love, and I do like this shoe quite a bit.
The largest draw back is that this overlay stuff. If you happen to watch my Hoka Torrent 3 evaluate, I had the very same drawback with it. It’s a shoe that’s below $150. It’s falling aside at about 150 miles.
On that entrance, these plastic overlays, proper now, appear to be a giant deal. That’s what’s being placed on sneakers so as to add construction. Possibly a few of it’s simply visuals, simply so as to add one thing to it in a light-weight method, however they’re not staying on. If abrasion resistance is the aim of getting this as I’m operating, possibly catching my foot on stuff, it’s nice for this half. However then I’m operating in locations which have grit and sand and filth and wooden and all types of stuff, that’s flying up and it’s going to get caught, and over time, most likely rub holes from the within versus from the surface. This has to get higher.
Possibly that’s a bigger commentary over simply the Peregrine as a result of I don’t wish to be in a spot the place shopping for a $200 shoe or $250 shoe or $300 shoe is what I’ve to do to get a shoe that’s going to final an extended period of time. Hopefully this can be a bump within the highway as applied sciences replace and alter, and as we’re seeing extra of this, it turns into a bit bit higher.
The optimistic facet of it, although, is that not one of the mesh beneath is beat up. The mesh on this facet that’s not coated in a few of this rubbery stuff — it’s holding up simply nice.
From that standpoint, aesthetically, I might most likely reduce this off or I might glue it again down. However you simply need to know that getting in.
This shoe was white and now it’s not, which can be a foul coloration for a path shoe within the first place.
The efficiency of the shoe total, although, appears to be nice. I don’t have any issues with what it’s doing, by way of the mesh holding up. I nonetheless have a look at it although, and I’m like, that’s lame.
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A high view of the Saucony Peregrine 13.
