ÿþbut I can assure you that shoe stores asics gt 3000 still use these categories, and runners are still fit to Asics shoes based upon them (my wife was). I share your frustration and I wish I could personally educate retail actually that is exactly what I am doing right now in Orlando. It's tough Pete retail is retail and I cannot control what is said and done out there even if we both know it is wrong. It is the same with some of the medical community things being said and done that are nonsense maybe years out of date and not accurate.

Having worked for many years at a running store and sold hundreds if not thousands of Asics shoes, worn through and loved a dozen or so myself, I would love to see how our newly design Altra Zero Drop shoes compare in a clinical asics gt 2000 4 womens peer reviewed study. Is Asics in? Based on what you said above, you are in. Just need to convince the next guy up the ladder& That's a well put together discussion. We might even be able to ignore some of the science for a moment think about the asics kayano womens 23 business aspect of all this. The fact of the matter is there is a market for minimal shoes. Why would a running shoe company want to avoid making money from this market? If ASICS isn't careful, they might become the IBM of running shoes.

Will this group of runners be more or less likely to purchase a pair of Asics running shoes after reading his polarizing comments? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just asking an honest question.I've been running in ASICS GT 2150 since about Jan 1. In that time I've gone from running 30 asics kayano 24 mens seconds and then walking, to running 13-15 miles comfortably. To be honest, I bought the 2150s because the sporting goods store had them in a EEEE width, and knowing that my forefoot tends to splay and expand a lot on impact, I always go with a shoe wider than my foot measures. (Never one blister for me in the 2150).

I bought a pair of Saucony Kenvara 2 in size 11 yesterday (that's about a half size bigger than I normally wear). They don't come in wide widths, none of the minimalist shoes they had seemed to (I'm wearing a EEEE in my Asics). The guy at the running store said that I do pronate a bit, but that doesn't mean it's a problem and it doesn't mean I'm benifiting from the support shoes. He advised me to keep an open mind while transitioning and perhaps even try using my superfeet inserts in the Kenvaras during the transition. The thing he seemed to stress the most was to only run no more that 10% of my weekly miles in the Kenvaras at first.

As a minimalist runner myself, I feel sometimes asics nimbus 19 mens almost bad about selling heavily cushioned motion control shoes for lightweight people with only slight overpronation, but if someone comes to store and says "My doctor/physiotherapist told me to get a shoe with a lot of cushion and pronation support", who am I to tell that he's wrong? Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Then I just sell the Asics Kayanos or Mizuno Nirvanas and hope for the best. And mention, that we also sell Vibram FiveFingers, which may help strengthen the feet. (They are becoming really popular in Finland, actually they are our best selling product at the moment.)