text: I got the shoes for their eye scorching colors, so in that they are excellent.<br />I'm not a trail runner so I cannot tell you how well the shoes actually work for what you are probably buying them for, they work fine for mowing the lawn. So I will call them average.<br />For fitting if you have wide feet I'd go half a size larger than what you wear in New Balance (my feet like the New Balance fit better). I can't compare them to Nike as I have to go so large in Nike, I end up with people trying to hire me to make balloon animals for children's birthday parties.