“When you’re standing barefoot, your heel and forefoot both make contact with the ground,” explains Ben Stark, an avid ultra-marathoner and performance marketing senior specialist at Merrell.

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I live at least half of my life in a robe, so I mean it when I say that this robe has shaken me to my core in a good way.

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