Running shoe and heel slippage...

I went through about a year of thinking that my heels were slipping in literally every running shoe I tried. The answer is that unless your heel is literally coming out of the shoe, you need to just get over it.

Trying to compensate by tying your laces tighter is going to give you tendonitis on the top of your feet. It happened to me!

One day I just decided to stop caring. Now I tie all my shoes loosely and I can still run fast and injury free.

Running shoes are not supposed to feel like soccer cleats.

This is the only problem I have with Glide 8, otherwise it's one of my best shoes ever. Over time the shoes broke in, got more flexible and the heel hold got better or maybe it's jut me getting more used to it.

Not sure if you tried this obvious fix, but many running shoes have an "extra" set of eyelets above where you would expect them to normally end. If you use them, the heel slippage is improved quite a bit, and you don't even have to tie the shoes quite as tight. I've gone though the same thing you speak of, and when through a period of tying my shoes so tight that I started having other problems.

Anyway, once I used the extra eyelets, they problem stopped. If your shoes don't have them, I'm sure you could carefully poke holes in the appropriate spots to create them.

I noticed this discussion on heel/foot slippage. I recently purchased a weird insole product that solves this: "Lockdown Insoles". I originally bought these for my basketball shoes (mid tops), to keep my feet from moving/sliding inside my basketball shoes which caused my toes to get black & blue - completely solved that problem. But then I also tried them for running and they also address my foot/heel slip problem. Because they keep your feet stationary in your shoes, you can lace up comfortably and not over-tighten. The only drawbacks are they're so grippy, it's a bit tricky to get your feet in your shoes, and also they're heavily cushioned so a bit heavy for runners. I hate having to use them because of the added weight, but they've eliminated a lot of problems for me.

certain brands have always had a wide heel for me.

New Balance seems to always have a wide heel and I don't even bother trying their shoes anymore.

Go to Runners Warehouse and look up various shoes. In the description there is a list of how the shoe fits in the heel, forefoot, and toe box height.

If the heel fit description says "medium" for your shoe then it probably is too wide.

If the heel fit description says "medium to narrow" then this would be a shoe to try.

I had a similar problem with the Asics GT 2000 3 a while ago. The shoe felt great but there was a pesky shoe slippage problem.

I bought a pair of Asics GT 1000 3 and there was no slippage.

The Runners Warehouse description for the heel fit in the 2000 3 shoe was "medium."

The description for the heel fit in the 1000 3 shoe was "medium to narrow."

So I will no longer buy a shoe unless it has a "medium to narrow" heel fit.

Heel slippage can cause achilles problems.