A shoe designed to cooperate with an apparatus through a pedaling action, the shoe including a base extending lengthwise from a rear end to a front end, widthwise between a lateral side and a medial side, and depthwise between a surface for cooperating with the apparatus and an inner surface, the base having, from the rear end to the front end, a rear zone, a central zone, a metatarsal zone, and a front zone, the shoe including a lateral wall and a medial wall. The lateral wall and the medial wall are affixed directly to the base, and the base, the lateral wall, and the medial wall are rigid subdivisions of the shoe.