No, I must admit that I haven’t tried them, DWrek. I’m judging based on my own perception of stack height as it relates to proprioception.

There has been much talk about how minimalism is dead. The comment was obviously sarcastic.

That first hill up is a real killer!

Racing flats are virtually never zero drop. The term “flat” is a misnomer.

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This is a racing flat. Racing flats have always looked somewhat like this. This has nothing to do with minimalism, unless the term has become so ubiquitous as to include racing shoes.

Here’s a bonny photo from one of those runs:

This looks to be Peal Izumi’s most minimal shoe to date – low weight, zero drop, low stack heights, minimal upper.

Not quite sure how you can claim that everyone is abandoning minimalism when new shoes such as this one are specifically made for the minimal market – just listen to language used by the sales guy.

While there are new max cushioning shoes appearing on the market, there are still plenty of new minimal shoes coming out as well. What I see if shoe market spreading out both upwards and downwards w.r.t cushioning, and generally downwards w.r.t weight.

Most companies produced their minimal shoes in the past two years, big news when they came out but now these are just in the update cycle. The new stuff coming, which naturally gets more press, is more on the cushioned end. It’s become trendy to say minimal is dead, when really what has happened is that as a trend for the masses it has died off. Most who have gone minimal and found benefit are not going to give it up.
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oops, looks like I got caught being obsessive.

Curious, have you tried them or just going off stack heights? I ask because Petes review yesterday said the 1’s were firm and Inside Triathlon reviewed the 2’s and said there is a decent amount of foam, but not a lot of cushioning (IE also firm). Which surprised me since the 1’s were firm as well, you would think the 2’s would have some give. Just looking for another opinion…