I've been wanting new shoes for a while since mine were too big, and I finally got around to it last weekend. I had the good fortune of having an excellent salesman who is a runner and really wanted to help me find the right shoes. He pointed out that my feet are wide--8.5 D on the measuring thingy. Huh? How have I gone through my entire life without anyone ever mentioning that? But the measuring thingy doesn't lie, so we started looking at options. I have been buying shoes that were too long in an attempt to fit the width, so he switched me to a smaller men's shoe. I wound up with the Asics Kayano. I've had two runs in them so far, and I really love these shoes! Today I did 4 k (4.8 if you include my warm up and cool down). I ran the first k at 8 minutes and then the remainder at 7.5 minutes. I'm really pleased that I'm starting to go farther faster.