I ran in these shoes and loved them, until I took them off road.

Let's start with the good. They are light and great for front to mid-foot strike running. The mess fabric helps keep your feet cool, but that's this shoe's Achilles heel (pun intended).

I took these shoes for a three mile run on a dirt road in Arizona. Within the first mile, I had three ounce of sand and dust in my shoe. To make matters worse, the mess picked up every stick, leaf, seed and plant material that brushed against them. It was terrible. I had to stop several times to pick out painful debris from the mesh.

In short, great shoes for city or paved running, but not the shoe for any sort of running that crosses dirt.