Running Shoes with a Wide Toebox

[snapdragen]

I needed a bigger toebox too, my LRS put me in a pair of Nike Zoom Vomero+ 5s. I really like them, but they might be too much shoe for your taste.

One thing you might try is roadrunnersports. com -- they have a shoe search, it helps you find shoes that might be a good fit for you.

It looks like the NB Minimus is scheduled for March 2011. Even though my "marathon career" is over, I'd be interested in seeing these.

[OakLeaf]

Well, as long as a spammer has revived this thread ... as I posted elsewhere, Altra Intuition has a very square toebox, which is great, although unfortunately for me they're not particularly wide in the forefoot and don't come in widths.

According to the staff at a NB corporate store I visited recently, NB Minimus series uses the same last for women's and men's shoes, which is kind of odd, since they really pioneered women's athletic shoes back in the day. I'm wearing a pair of men's wide NB Minimus cross-trainers in the gym now and the heel slip isn't intolerable, so I'm considering a pair of the road shoes, even though the toe box is pointy and leaves a lot of clown shoe. Next year's model is supposed to have zero heel/toe drop (the current ones have 4 mm).

[GLC1968]

The Altra's weren't wide enough for my toes even though the shape is correct. I suspect if they came in a wide-width, they'd be perfect.

Currently, I'm now happily running in the NB Minimus trail (women's D width) and they are perfect for me, even for road running. I tried on the Minimus road (last years version) over the weekend and found them too cushy and not quite wide enough. Of course, the store didn't carry women's D width, so I was trying on the regular width. I had NO intentions of buying anything from them purely because the sales associate was horribly ill-informed and I didn't want to give them my business for that reason alone. She was rambling off all sorts of misinformation! She insisted that NB didn't make the Minimus in a wide width for women (multiple times) even though I told her that's what I run in. She told me I must be mistaken. Wrong thing to say to a customer - even if I had been wrong (which I wasn't, of course ).

[OakLeaf]

Anybody run in the Brooks Pure Connect yet? (2 mm drop) I wonder how they fit ...

ETA - but they don't come in wide. Sniff.