can anyone summarize nike's running shoes for me into easy-to-understand categories? here are some general questions and reasons i am confused:
- nike free runs are supposed to be barefoot/minimalist, yet most of them have a 4 mm heel-toe drop and their heels are actually super cushy. i have a pair. they feel a bit like my adidas tempos. doesn't seem super barefoot/minimalist to me.
- the nike racing line has shoes that also have 4 mm heel-toe drops (zoom streak, say), yet they don't call these barefoot/minimalist shoes. why?
- does anyone train daily in shoes from the racing line? is the whole "racing" label just a marketing gimmick? why aren't they all just lumped into "minimalist"? (ok, maybe track spikes would preclude the minimalist label, but barring that...)
- so the air pegasus and lunar are supposed to be "neutral" shoes, yet the lunarGLIDE are supposed to be "stability," pronation-control shoes?
fwiw, i am a n00b runner so i don't know if i have any particular needs or wants. i won't embarrass myself by posting my mpw. :)
thanks!