Ah well, I had good half a year of running, then all of sudden, my fivefingers just stopped working. My right calf gets painfully stiff when running with vff. Before vff, I was desperately searching for good wide "ultra-minimalistic" shoe, spend a good amount of money to try several differend shoes and brands. Seems like not much has happened since I started barefoot/minimalistic running in choice of shoes. There still are only vivobarefoot, huaraches and fivefingers and pretty much nothing else. Tons of zero drops, but it seems that they are too thick, too narrow or just somehow else not good.
This calf getting stiff, well, with vivo ultras and altra adams, no problems. Ultras and adams work, but ultras give me blisters and are bit too cold at winter and adams - well, I just don't like them much, although they are the most reliable shoe I have ever had.. Fivefingers felt much better when they were not giving me stiff calf. It kind of feels like replacing spring with stiff stick, every foot strike feels like jarring impact, especially in calf, but also at the ball of foot, knee and thigh..
Sigh, I guess it's second round with huaraches.
Flammee, have you looked at the new Merrell Vapor Gloves? Don't know about the width, but Justin at Birthday Shoes thought they would work well for wide feet.
http://birthdayshoes.com/vapor-glove-merrell-barefoot-initial-review
Personally, I've gotten so used to wearing huaraches, I have a hard time wearing shoes.