Question: Has anyone else heard of these no name shoes or others like it?
Maybe if we all start demanding cheaper shoes and refuse to pay these ridiculous
prices than they would cut the high tech crap out and start making running
shoes that are functional and not funny looking.
I've been wearing Nike's for about 25 years.
The reason is because they always seem to fit me the best.
The past few years, the quality seems to have deteriorated.
The springiness seems to go out of the shoes a lot sooner.
I've contacted Nike about this but received no response.
I could rant on and on, but what I really would like is help on
finding an alternative. The main reason I bought Nike in the
past was because they are wide in the toe, in proportion to
the rest. Since I have sort of flat feet, that are narrow in the
heel, and wide at the toes, the fit worked out pretty well.
I would welcome any thoughts on good quality shoes that
offer decent support, good cushioning (which I seem to
need even more of with this many miles on my body)
and decent flexibility, and hopefully with a good size toe box.
Answer:
I know that all Nike shoes are made in Indonesia. Although they are paid
deplorably by Western standards, they do provide needed income for locals
where jobs are few and far between. Sounds heartless but actually you can
live on $1 a day in Indonesia and it's certainly better then be unemployed
and starving.
However, I don't know much about this subject so I'm not condoning
deplarable working conditions, all I'm saying is that you can live making
$.10 an hour in indonesia just as well as you can making minimum wage in
America. That's all. Just thought I'd play devils advocate.
I used to religiously buy and run in Nike shoes...and eventually I had
a lot of the same issues that you do...I began to feel like they spent
a lot more on advertising than they did on a quality product. Plus,
they roll out new shoes so often that it doesn't seem like it's in
their best interest to make shoes that last for too long...
Anyway, I've since switched to Asics...I've used the DS Trainer for
the past few years and it has a roomy toe box with a narrower (though
not extremely narrow) heel and arch area...Asics are definitely worth
looking into.
Seems like a lot of people have had trouble with Nike, but I've run
exclusivly in Nike shoes for 10 years now and have not had a problem. I have
the luxury of not having any injuries or special problems to worry about
when buying shoes. I usually get the discontinued models at $40-$50/pair and
they last me a good 350 miles or so roughly.
