I put off buying tennis shoes for ten years. TEN. I had been a dedicated Nike user for better than thirty-six years...but the escalating costs, the ubiquity, the useless (and harmful) balloons of air in the sole and the unattractive product led me to take a time-out. Given, Nike has swallowed up nearly all their rivals and has continued to give us the illusion of choice (okay, that's business), but to get color and style from them, you have to crap out a brick, sell a lung, perform a perfect hit on a high-profile target, or win the friggin lottery! For a tennis shoe? I've even heard you could trade them for a happy ending. Damn!
But I digress...sorry.
Saucony, a brand at which I scoffed when I was an over-trained athlete, has developed this snug runner with human structure in mind: tissue over bones. This means the shoe is tres light, has sufficient cushion for a three-mile run, breathes well because the upper isn't thick, is durable, the lacing grid and tongue create a no-slip fit and (if you time it right with Amazon), you can keep your inner parts, sparing them the wear and TEAR. And boy do the shoes look nice! I now have six colorful pairs of super light tennis shoes that I use  daily. Bonus: My breathing, bowels and citizenship remain unhampered).