The first day I wore the So iLL Runner shoes to the gym, I caught people staring at them. Just the other day I was sport climbing indoors, resting halfway up a route, when a guy climbing the route next to me stopped to ask, “Hey, where are the shoes from? And what brand are they?” The only other time I’ve caught people staring at my feet was when I was a teenager and decided to wear flip flops in March, with snow outside and everything, for the “cool surfer lookgo to full review

Although these are a great training shoe for indoor bouldering, board climbing or routes, I got a lot more from them in an outdoor bouldering scenario than originally expected. You can’t heel hook in them if it’s a critical heel hook, but there are plenty of problems that don’t have heel hooks. They’re so comfortable that you can wear them at the crag for several hours at a time (useful if you’re in lazy boulderer mode), and they work well on friction-y types of rock. Overall, I’d totally..." go to full review