Adidas Terrex Swift R3 GORE-TEX Shoes Jet Black Grey - 44

This should be a great shoe, but it has a design flaw that makes it completely unusable for me. Adidas put the first eyelet on a bonded pad way out at the edge of the shoe. When the shoe flexes, the pad creates a pressure point that raises massive blisters on the tops of my feet. Very poor design.

I bought this shoe last week. Wore them to work to break them in, then the next day, did a 10 mile hike in Marin Headlands. The shoes are pretty stiff, but had phenomenal traction for climbing, especially on wet slippery rocks. These shoes felt very comfortable during the climbing/uphill portions of the hike.BUT I’m immediately returning them because they destroyed my toes going downhill. Especially my pinky toe. There is no room in the tow box for your foot to expand laterally. This was very obviously felt when trying to lightly jog down hill. If the tow box was wider, these would be great shows.I previously used LA Sportiva bushidos (for 3 years) which were a god send. I will be going back to those.

Good shoe so far but definitely stiff it will take a while to break in and I am concerned about how much the sole is glued together and how long that will last. But I have owned other adidas shoes with similar construction and I wore out the tread on the sole and they lasted about 6 years