I've been a funner for many years; my dead shoes are 90% Saucony.  They have kept the same shoe last for those years and as long as they do I'll continue to prefer them for my running shoes; my size is 2 sizes larger than my street shoe size in the Saucony brand shoe.

Long distance runners know the pain of finding your shoe; the peculiarity of a shoe to your foot is information embedded into memory and getting it wrong isn't a good thing when you're 5 miles from your front door and have a 5 mile walk back.

For me Saucony is the shoe.