Men's Altra Experience Flow, Gray/Green, 9.5 D Medium

The jury is still out on these. I read many reviewer online for those who were looking for alternatives to Saucony Endorphin Shift 3 shoes since they are no longer made. The key feature is the low heal-toe drop of 4mm. I’m unfortunately one of those flat footed runners that is severely sensitive to a heel-toe drop of over 5mm. It’s a dumb super power because I can put on any pair of shoes that fit me and run 5 miles in them and tell you if the heal-toe drop is over 5mm. I have always run in Altras in the past but their shoe durability is awful. They should be charging half what they do because I only get maybe 300 miles out of the outsoles. Saucony have been making shoes as long as I’ve been running (35+ yrs) and even longer so they’ve got the quality part down. It’s catering to us flat-footed runners that they need to design more shoes for because 5-10 mile easy runs are painful in the knees with high drop shoes. I guess I should have stated that I’m a mid foot striker who started with Newton shoes when I started running more seriously in my 30’s. Those shoes force the mid-foot strike, which alleviated a lot of my knee pain in long runs. I’ve moved on from them since their shoes have higher heal-toe drops now too.