About a year ago I bought the this very shoe from famousfootwear for over $100 and they were excellent shoes! I used them to run in the 2009 Portland Marathon which aided in my completion. The reason I choose NB shoes in the first place is the wide toe option. Other running shoes like Nike and Addias are narrower and end up hurting my pinky toe. Besides that there are many other great reviews on here. I would just like to add that if you have an old pair of MR993, stick your old cushion into your new shoe and it makes it a whole lot more comfortable not that it wasn't already. But more cushion doesn't hurt does it?