text: Highs: Awesome Build Quality, Light<br /><br />Lows: Narrower than expected, odd laces<br /><br />Overall: A good shoe to consider for serious runners, but watch the fit.<br /><br />I have a couple of pairs of Evo Wave Cursoris which I love. I do very short fast races and sprinting and have retired my first pair from running duty - they're still fine for slower runs or walking and are the most comfortable shoes I own. I've come to love the wider toe-box so my toes can splay out while running.<br /><br />Wanting to try the closest thing in the Mizuno line to the Cursoris, and having read that the toe-box was wide in the Hitogami, I wrongly thought these would fit similarly to the Cursoris. Definitely pay attention to the shoe fitting application amazon has begun using to check fit before ordering. I ended up ordering these a half size too small. According to the shoe fitter the foot-bed exactly matches the size 12 asics I've owned. Because the shoe was too small for me to run in, I can only give superficial information on the shoe itself.<br /><br />The materials and build quality is what I expect from Mizuno. The laces are a bit strange: they seem stiff and inflexible and appear designed not to slip between eyelets. I'm not sure how this would have worked out for me, as I rely on the slippage to fine tune lace adjustments while running. I either tighten or loosen the lace and let the change work down to the bottom of the lace while moving in the shoe. I can't tell how well these would do that, but the stiffness and surface roughness give me pause.