Quote Originally Posted by jessmarimba View Post
Which ones are you talking about, Colby? The WT101? I'd imagine it's because the shoe is so thin in the forefoot that you couldn't run rocky trails without it. They'd fall apart. After wearing mine for about 5 months (~200 miles?) they feel pretty flexible. But as I have to wear insoles in them to make them fit, I can't really tell you how the shoe itself really feels.

The NB WR10 (the new minimal road shoe), to me, seems pretty similar to the Altra Intuition.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking - the extra reinforcement IS structural.

I am probably going to get some knobby vibrams for running trails, and to do the dirty dash in August. They may not help a huge amount in that quantity of mud, but the regular vibrams will definitely not help in mud

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