I loved my first New Balance Men's MR993, but after a few months, I started to see a little hole around my right big toe area. After a few more weeks, my toe had poked out of the front part of my shoe and made a huge sun roof for rest of my toes to enjoy.  So, I bought another MR993 for under $90 and kept my toe nails really short and wore thick layer of socks, but after a few months, another hole!!  Anyway, I switched to ASICS Men's GEL-Nimbus 12 Running Shoe and Wow!, it has a plastic around the big toe area that will keep my big toe from poking another hole!

Anyway, now that NB or Amazon is out of their mind, trying to sell this for over $135 bucks, I'll have to stick to Asics. What's with NB?  Made in USA?  Is our recession driving up New Balance shoe prices through the sky?? Gimme a break.