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Hundreds of new running shoes hit running stores this year with new midsole foams, new upper materials, new colorways, and new designs that helped make running more comfortable, more stylish, and more energizing than ever.
We, the editors of Women’s Running, Trail Runner, and Outside, wear tested dozens of road and trail shoes in 2023, and these were the models we liked the best.
Road Running
Altra Rivera 3 | $140
- Weights: 8.2 oz. (women’s size 8)
- Heel-Toe Offset: 0mm (28mm in the heel, 28mm in the forefoot)
- Fit: True to size with a medium/narrow interior volume and a roomy toe box.
Altra has built its reputation with shoes that have a level or zero-drop platform and a spacious toe box. The brand’s founders pursued that design paradigm to encourage runners to have a more natural, uncompromised gait that, they claim, will reduce the propensity for…
