text: I wanted to love these, but no love can come from discomfort.  The problem is the back of the shoe where it goes across your Achilles tendon... do you see that upper edge?  Well, he's the culprit.  The edge is done in such a way that it cuts into your Achilles, most heinously.  I had to buy heel pads to thicken the back of the shoe, just below the edge, so it would push my foot forward and away from the Achilles wrecker.  The thing is, once you've got to go to such measures to make a shoe the least bit tolerable, it changes the way the rest of the shoe fits, which is less than ideal.  It's not comfortable enough to go for walks, so it ended up becoming my gardening shoe... and let me be clear here, I don't garden much.