I have wide feet partly due
I have wide feet partly due to genes and mostly due to wearing sandals, flip flops VFFs or nothing most of my life and since starting to run BF 18 months ago it is even wider. Shoe companies just haven't got a clue. I need a wide toe bed so my toes can splay out and work naturally. Most shoes think they are pumps and cram the toes into an area the size of a dime. New Balance generally has been a wider toe bed but the MT 100's are a massive disappointment with a ridiculously narrow toe.
I will applaud the company that finally comes out with a wide shoe, decent grip, zero lift, small rock plate and lightweight that doesn’t cost a fortune. I love my VFF’s, there is just nothing on the planet wrong with them other than they are slippery on mud and they do offer a slight overconfidence that barefoot doesn’t and I have bruised my feet not paying attention. A rock plate might have avoided that. Barefoot on wet clay is no better. I slide all over the place if the trail slopes to the side or downhill. It is rare to have a perfectly flat trail that is wet and how fun would that be anyway?
KSO treks, they are no better in mud, they are slippery and slide. I anticipate the Lone Peak and really would like to try them out. They seem like the perfect shoe if they aren’t too thick of a sole. The Inov8 X-Talon 190 seems like it would be a great shoe but like many said, it is narrow so I can’t wear it.
I guess I just need to glue some knobby’s on the bottom of my feet or maybe buy some X-Talon’s or MT100’s, cut the top off and make Huaraches out of them. After all, a minimalist shoe just needs to hold a minimal amount of material on the bottom of the foot, not the top. That is minimal, is it not?