Nothin' but traction

By Chas. Ranked #815 - Men's Trail Run Shoes November 25, 2009

I spent the summer of '09 running "barefoot" with a pair of Vibram Five Fingers. Single track horse trails through the woods in Minnesota that are covered in pine straw and horse**** provide a soft and sometimes squishy track that is ideal. This fall, as the trails turned to a slippery mess I knew that my Five Fingers were not going to keep me upright on some twisting and fast descents. I wanted a shoe with tremendous traction like a fell running shoe and as little extra B.S. as possible. The Crosslite Trail is the perfect shoe for the muddy, hilly terrain I run. As a forefoot striker, I rely not on my shoes to provide cushion, but on the perfectly tuned toe,sole,ankle,calf,knee,thigh,hip thing to keep my aging joints together and to get me from A to B. The only thing missing was a good connection to the ground. I highly recommend these shoes for serious, technical trail runners that don't need ankle support (it's also a very low shoe) and who don't need or want all the bells and whistles of over thought shoe designs. They look pretty cool to boot!

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