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Can I ask what made you swap over to neutral? I've been running in a pair of less stable shoes and I'm not sure whether they're right or not...
Will need more time with them to see.
jackc-
It's a good question, and I think it was a slight accident at the time! When I first started running, gait analysis suggested I was (mild/moderate) overpronating, so ran in various support shoes, and got on to Nike Zoom Elite as a lightweight trainer/racer. This became my everyday training shoe and at some point it just turned into a neutral shoe from a mild support shoe, but I carried on with it anyway and got on OK. More recent gait analysis suggests my running style might have got a little more efficient, so I've been happy using neutral shoes for everything for a while now.
Not that I've been completely injury-free but the injuries have been all over the place and certainly not anything I can confidently blame on whatever shoes I'm wearing. (Compared to having tight calves, getting old, etc...)
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I've looked in to these as I've been converted to running in neutral flats and have mild/moderate overpronation. I wouldn't worry too much as nowadays "stability" shoes are less corrective. Find a model that you feel comfortable in and work on your form/biomechanics.
Personally I've found that running in a stability shoe with a supportive insole leads to less input. I've gone from the Adidas Ultraboost ST with a custom insole to the adidas adizero adios 3. I do all my runs in the adios apart from short recovery runs. I'm considering adding the fasttwitch to do speedwork/threshhold stuff as I'm curious about how I'll find less drop.
If you need more convincing:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=102856
some other "stability" flats:
- New Balance 1500
- Saucony Fastwitch
- Asics DS Racer
- Brooks Asteria
- New Balance 1500
PhilPub
delidigs
My personal experience of Fastwitch is out of date but might be of interest. I really liked version 4 for racing (still holds my London Marathon course pb) but went off them for version 5 when they lowered the stack height by a few mm, and for me lost a nice cushiony feel, and made my arch sore over a half marathon. A running club mate works in a running shop and really rates the newest version; if I hadn't swapped to wearing more neutral shoes I'd definitely consider them again.
...edit... Just been looking at version 9, still only 4mm stack height, and described as firm. I'd be concerned that they still wouldn't be great for me racing over longer distances, compared to say a more cushioned but lightweight neutral shoe with more stack height.