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EPISODE · Sep 15, 2026 · 2 MIN

What's Actually Causing Your Toes to Hurt on Descents

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Most advice for sore, bruised toes on long descents points to sizing up, but the length of your shoes isn’t really the issue. Wide toe box hiking shoes give your toes the width to splay and brace against each other, so the pressure of a downhill stretch is more likely to spread across your whole forefoot instead of landing on one toe or nail.Find shoes built to handle every downhill at https://www.topoathletic.com/

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