HOKA One One Carbon X
Carbon X is more a lightweight trainer, by category, but it’s going to be my racing flat and maybe it should be yours too.
by Dan Empfield, June 29, 2019Carbon X is more a lightweight trainer, by category, but it’s going to be my racing flat and maybe it should be yours too.
by Dan Empfield, June 29, 2019It’s the reissue of the original (and still the best) Bondi B. This retro issue is for hipsters and “jog walkers”. But that won’t stop me.
Footwear companies are famous for wrecking a good shoe. In this case, a good shoe keeps getting better.
Odd editions (Bondi 3, 5) are fails. Even editions (2, 4) are wins. Does the Bondi 6 follow the pattern?
HOKA’s sweet spot, for road runners and triathletes, lies between the Clifton and the original Bondi B. Does the Elevon continue that tradition?
The HOKA One One Bondi 5 is a really nice shoe. But it’s not the shoe I fell in love with, and that I wrote about so exuberantly 7 years ago today.
Memo to triathletes: Saucony makes more than the Kinvara. If HOKA is a great idea but a bridge too far for you, consider this shoe.
Now we’re down to it. The final installment of our 3-part series on the run shoe market. The killer app? Organic Support.
Neutral, Stability and Motion Control, run shoe tech’s onetime Holy Trinity, have also caught the last train for the coast. (Pardon us, Don McLean.)
The Vaporfly 4% is the hard-to-get, expensive, much lighter brother of the Zoom Fly. Is this shoe better than the Zoom Fly? Nope.
Why is this shoe fast for me? I can only say that it works, but not for certain why it works.
It’s like the Asics GT2000. But more cushioned, more springy, and much more flexible in the forefoot.
Is Newton Running back on its heels? Or in the starting blocks for another run for the tape?