Zero-drop shoes are a type of running shoe with a unique design that levels the height between the heel of the shoe and the toe. The purpose of zero-drop shoes is to keep your foot parallel to the ...

The Experience Wild isn’t Altra’s thickest trail running shoe, but it is the only one that isn’t zero drop. Instead, you get 32mm of stack height in the heel and 28mm in the forefoot for 4mm of drop.

While on the surface Altra and HOKA running shoes look extremely different, there are in fact some similarities that might drive you to enjoy both shoes. In fact, I run in both brands most weeks!

More than two years after nearly every other brand entered the super-shoe fray, Altra has arrived on the scene with its unique entry into the modern marathon-racing genre. After ten runs in the Vanish ...

The appeal of running in zero-drop shoes is their alleged promise of promoting your “natural” form. Unlike other trainers, whose heel is typically 8mm to 12mm thicker than the forefoot, a zero-drop ...

Altra running shoes have improved my quality of life by leaps and bounds. When my wife first mentioned to me the idea of switching over to zero-drop shoes, I was intrigued by the idea of trying them, ...

When a shoe gets to its ninth iteration, it’s usually doing something right. That’s certainly the case with the Altra Lone Peak, a firm favourite among trail runners with a penchant for the longer ...

The Altra Lone Peak is a perennial favorite of both trail runners and thru-hikers. The Lone Peak 9 is the most recent iteration, and I’ve been testing them this season on trails around Montana, Utah, ...