Oh man I love my vibrams. They look stupid as fuck, especially worn to a date (who does this unless the date activity is hiking?!), but they're the best shoe I've found for long walks. I'm even able to go on runs now thanks to them, which I couldn't before because having fibromyalgia, my joints would always hurt. But put on my vibrams and the only thing slowing my running is my shitty lung capacity from 10 years of smoking (I quit 6 months ago).