Looking for shoe recommendations.

Look online at Cabela's big selection of footwear. Usually Danner and Merill have a wide size range. Call Cabella's and ask about availability.

As for footbed problems you'll have to remove the factory insole and get a custom moulded footbed, the kind that use heat to mould to your foot. It sounds like you'll also need a good arch support beneath the insole as well.

Eric

Thanks for the info eric.

I was hoping someone with a similar foot could recommend some specific shoes. I wonder if the performance version of the inov 8 shoes might fit me better.

Inov-8 themselves recommend adding their 3mm insole under the standard 6mm. Superfeet might accomplish the same thing.

I don’t know anything about low-volume shoe brands, as I have the opposite problem.

Sportiva tends to run on the narrow side, but still have a roomy toebox.

W/r/t rolling your ankle, do you think you need ankle support, or a less torsionally rigid shoe?

In regards to your ankles rolling this is a symptom of any shoe without direct ankle support. Working on your own balance and ankle flexibility will keep you from actually injuring the ankle. This has been my experience anyways.

The way I test whether shoes will cause trouble with turned ankles is to stand in them and turn out your ankles, meaning to push your ankles to the outside so that you are standing on the outside edges of your soles. If the shoe easily buckles under you then you can be sure the shoes will buckle under you while walking on uneven surfaces. This usually happens with shoes that have high soles and nothing on the outside edges to prevent the outward pronation of the feet. It's one reason I have trouble with the GoLite shoes… the lugs are so tall that the shoes easily twist to the sides.

i'd say look at brooks & nike first – they have higher arches on average and also make many of their shoes in narrow widths

do you have a fleet feet sports near you? or some other running store with a lot of selection & staff trained to assist with proper fitting & such?

Surprised I'm the first to put this out there but ankle rolling is not really a shoe problem. It's a weak ankle problem. If you put a crutch on the problem (boots, hightops, etc) it'll never get better. In my experience a low shoe (with no ankle support) is more likely to pull off your foot if you go to turn it where a boot or something that covers the ankle is more likely to take your ankle with it. I'd always rather have the shoe pull off than take my ankle with it when it turns.

My girlfriend has seriously loose ankles due to hypermobility and ligament issues and used to twist them at least once a trip until she switched to a trail running shoe. Since then she's turned them maybe twice over the last year or so. This can be attributed to the lack of support forcing her ankles to get stronger and rely on themselves to prevent turning.