The shoes were comfortable from the beginning, no break in needed. I thought that I loved them until I walked from a gravel walkway to an asphalt driveway. The soles trap everything including small gravel. When I stepped onto the hard asphalt the stones trapped in the soles jabbed the soles of my feet. I looked at the bottom of my feet and found gravel, pine needles, dirt and fur from something (?).  After wearing them for a couple of weeks it feels like there is a stick in the right side of the right shoe. I had to add an insert just to make them wearable. Lowering my rating to two stars.