I have seen a lot of people wearing the 5 toe running shoe so it peaked my interest. But I was not interested in the 5 toe shoe design. So then I saw the Merrell product a normal running shoe design (yes). I purchased the barefoot trail glove and love them. I started off slow with a 2 mile run for the first week for 5 days so far so good. I'm looking forward to next week when i kick it up to 2.5 - 3 miles for that week. The shoe is very well design I thought I might roll my angle no not at all very happy. The only thing I did wrong was order a 1/2 size to big, i odered the correct size and sold the other pair. That other person love them and has been tearing it up during there work out!