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What Hoka trail shoes do you recommend? I need a pair and searched for stability ones on their site but couldn’t find any.
jackc-
I've done about 20 miles in the Torrent 2s and am pretty impressed so far. I mainly run on grass on Blackheath and in Greenwich Park which can be very greasy after prolonged rain but its rarely a proper quagmire.
https://www.runnersneed.com/p/hoka-one-one-men-s-torrent-2-L1314909.html?colour=3661
I wear an 11 in Kayanos and had to size up to an 11.5 for the Torrents. They seem to fit me almost exactly the same way as the Kayanos apart from maybe being a tiny bit narrower in the middle if the shoe where the arch support is.
I don't know enough about shoes to recommend them, but they work well for me.
Stonehedge
I'm having the same dilemma with expensive kit. I've run in Gel Kayanos for more than ten years and can never quite bring myself to try something cheaper/different. I'm a 90kg chunk of spunk...there's no way I'd notice a difference in GT2000s but I still can't bring myself to move outside of my comfort zone.
Two pairs of Gel Kayanos a year over ten years is a lot of money.
EDIT: I have recently managed to wean myself from Asics to Hoka for trail shoes though, so maybe there is hope.