Originally Posted by
berner
As always, Hermes has thoughtful, intelligent and useful posts that should be paid attention to when attempting to improve cycling fitness, bike fit, training and so forth. He has spent large sums of money and much time finding this stuff out.
He has a ton of knowledge, comes in handy sometimes.
OP, you can get cycling shoes made for flat pedals, some of them are pretty cheap like at Nashbar, etc. Way better than sneakers.