Hoka One One's--aka running in heaven (Page 2)

Originally posted by BigDH



Not sure how the majority of your runs could be long and slow. But yeah, long slow runs I would say are fine. But if you have any marathon pace work in that I would just say use with caution. Everyone is different. The thing is, those shoes allowed me to run with an injury far longer (in two ways, first they allowed me to run longer more often, so I could string 20km runs one after another, second they allowed those super long runs, 30+ km to be relatively pain free where if I wore my kinvaras the jarring I would feel in my hip would have forced me to stop.) than other shoes would, which caused all sorts of horrible ripple effects. That is why I run around screaming that the sky is falling whenever anyone becomes a convert. If I were to give a rule, it would be only use them for at most half of your runs and if you find you can't run in your normal shoes but you can run in the hokas, stop running in the hokas all together until you sort it out. FWIW my issue was with groin, hip and back pain.

They are kind of like that ring in TLOTR, or any other superhero enchantment that brings great power but has a great price. I truly believe that. If I had to do it over again I would stick with my minimal shoes, use the hokas for every other long run and maybe try to use them in the marathon. I bought four pairs of those suckers.

eta:: the point is not that you don't run in them everyday, but that you also run in something else.

Originally posted by pmcroome

Ditto on the Brooks ghosts - I almost sent them back until I tried the green inserts. Filled up the shoe nicely and added some stiffness. Saving up for some Hokas - I like the suggestion of trading between shoes for different runs. Great thread.