I wanted to love these shoes and when I first opened the box it was looking very likely. They look great, they are very light and they even came with the elastic, no-tie laces that I was going to put on them anyway. The issue was when I put them on; they were pretty narrow but I was willing to work with that as I had read reviews that mentioned it. What I couldn't get past was that the tongues on both shoes were all about folding their outside edges in on themselves. That's uncomfortable and fixing it adds a significant amount of time to your transition (if you use them for triathlons, which was my plan). There was one more issue and it was that the right shoe also had some sort of notch on the edge of the tongue that, even when I had fixed the aforementioned edge issue, still dug into my foot and made wearing the shoe while doing any sort of activity extremely uncomfortable. The second issue is probably isolated but the first may be a bit more common. That said, I still love Asics and still believe in them.