To the Newton shoe wearers:
I just received an order from Running Warehouse. I have a pair of Newton Aha's that I'm trying to figure out if they are too large and should be returned. Typically, I wear a 10 in my run around sneakers/shoes, a 10.5 in some of the running shoes that run small (ie NB 890) and these are an 11. My question is, where on your foot should the lugs fall? Mine stop just at the ball of the foot before the little sulcus under your toes begins. It feels okay jogging around the house, but these things feel like boats on my feet. I just don't know if that's typical of the shoe, or I'm feeling it because they are too big.
By the 'old school' (or maybe it's still current?) rules of shoe fit, I do technically have a thumbs width (laying flat ie, palm part of thumb down) of space between my second toe- my longest- and the end of the shoe. But man, this feels like sitting in the drivers seat of gramps' Town Car when you've been used to driving a Corvette- I feel like I have extra shoe for days.
Just wondering if others could chime in on how their Newton's fit and where their lugs fall on the plantar aspect of their feet.
Thanks guys!!
(sorry for the cross post- I asked this on the board of one of the races I'm registered in, but noticed quite a few people here said they run in a Newton)