I ran the 5 miles down to a big shopping center called Zona Rosa in Missouri with running stores and sporting good stores to search for some outfitting for the trail run this weekend. Apparently nobody runs trails in Missouri because it was a serious search. I was looking for some Brooks Cascadias, but no luck. The third store had some Brooks True Grit trail shoes on the back shelf and amazingly enough the reviews on them were really good. I bought a pair and some new socks and ditched my old shoes in the can by the register. Then I took off for a few hours of running. These shoes are really cool! I hate the line of trail shoes that are like gigantic marshmellows and have a hard time with the ones like bricks on your feet. These seem a lot lighter and still fairly cushioned. Pretty excited to get at least a few decent runs in them before attempting a 50 mile trail run. | 