Originally Posted by
BassNotBass
IMHO keep wearing your running shoes. With flexible soles your feet need to work and exercising your feet helps keep them strong. Start wearing stiff soled shoes on most rides and certain foot muscles may atrophy and you may eventually HAVE to rely on cycling specific shoes.
Way off base. The OP's feet aren't going to atrophy by wearing cycling shoes. Firstly, cycling doesn't exercise the muscles of the foot like running or walking do. Secondly, most people have lives outside of cycling where walking or running is involved. It's not just cycling and sleep, so his feet aren't going to atrophy.