Review on 🏃 Performance Boost: New Balance Men's Fresh Foam Hierro V6 Trail Running Shoe by Darth Calder

PRO Bits - These are great shoes for a LIFT. It just seems that all the curves, bumps and dips are right where MY foot is. NB has always been a good fit. I've been wearing them since the 70's. This style fits significantly better than other lower-priced New Balance models. A lightweight. I think that's also something NB has always done well. Again, this pair is just "slightly better" (lighter) than their cheaper shoes. Soft yet flexible outsole. The bottom of the sole is quite hard. Difficult to pierce with rocks, cactus needles, sticks, etc., unlikely to survive a rattlesnake bite. (Doesn't everyone live on a desert ranch?) The inside of the outsole, on the side of the foot, is a regular, very well-formed NB insert. I have never found a good replacement if/when the original NB inserts wear out. They're just really good. Somewhere between this outer and inner layer is a kind of magic foam that is quite soft but always seems to rebound after wearing. You won't see a "stain" on the sole for years. Whatever they put in there and whatever design the engineers come up with, it works great. Great for me, a fat guy who runs all day and works on the ranch. Significantly reduces stress on joints from head to toe. CONTACT - Color - Imagine a boardroom full of people with different ideas about what color a product should be. Some people want darkness. Some people want light. Someone needs wild stripes, dramatic graphics. Someone needs a bend, someone needs camouflage. I consider the color of these shoes to be a "bad compromise". One of its colors is "pigment". For real? Do you call the pigment "pigment"? It's like designing a new fruit and naming it "fruit". These shoes come in blue, green, brown, tan, purple, grey, in some places all at once. As if all the paint leftovers were mixed in a vat and got some kind of grey-purple-blue. The heel detail looks like a holey airbrush that has applied and splattered paint. This is a design, not real splashes. In some places strange splashes of pigment of dirty paint are applied. Flippy Things Heel - There is a rubber tab behind the heel that pulls back about .500 bananas (12 M&Ms). I believe(?) that the rubber valve is some kind of "design feature" that greatly improves your marathon times or something. For me, the ranch walker, it tends to grab small pebbles, sticks, and bug droppings and stuff them into the cuffs of my boots. Insect excrement in the socks is annoying at worst. But still an annoyance. Despite the cons mentioned above, I still rate them 5 stars for at least one other reason, because they just fit so well. Those shoes were 160 shells, Murikan. They fit noticeably better than the $100 or $60 NB shoes I wear, exactly the same size. Needless to say, my legs are not your legs.