I like the Reebok just fine

I like the Reebok just fine. I'm not a big runner (just a few miles a week on a treadmill). I tried running in the Reebok but my shins couldn't handle it (mostly from all the tension in the calfs, so my "shin splints" are really some tendon or ligament issues on the medial side of my shins). I tried the Reebok Frees but they are too goddamn narrow and tight. Damn Reebok sizes their shoes so inaccurately. And I don't have another $100 to waste on the Reebok Frees.

But the shoe I love love loved was the Reebok Free Sparq Trainer. They are the best shoe I have found for running (until someday when I work up the determination to adapt to running in Reebok again). And they are amazing just to walk in, which is at least as important to me as a running shoe since I do a lot more walking than running. It seems like you all are rather dismissive of flexibility at this site. That is my favorite thing about minimalist shoes: the side to side, front to back all around flexibility. My legs really feel so much more alive, all the way up to my thighs, from wearing them. And I don't feel like my foot is in a cast, which is how 99% of today's shoes feel (was it always that way?). I don't mind a bit of cushioning when I'm on my feet all day (but I absolutely hate "support"). Just make the cushioning even, shoe designers.

Reebok are a great idea in some respects, but for walking around in the winter or walking on hot asphalt in the summer, they suck.。I run naturally on my forefoot anyway, but I resent the extra cushioned heels that often make it impossible to run on your forefoot. The Reebok Free Sparq trainers definitely had more heel cushioning that I want or need, but at least it wasn't enough to ruin them for me since the heels do not affect my foot strike.So what did Reebok do? They discontinued the Sparqs almost immediately, and the successor Reebok Free Trainers have become more and more like standard Reebok foot casts. Not only that, they are making them too narrow like the other "free" shoes (the Sparq trainers were the perfect width for me). I refuse to buy them.