Hoka's hate page

I hate that my knees don't hurt as much.

I hate the Hoka Bondi and other Hoka models with semi-rigid rocker soles because they prevent me from performing surgery on runners suffering with hallux rigidus (sarcasm, and hint to those suffering with this condition).

What a ridiculous topic. If there are a lot of people who like running in Hokas and have had good results, who gives a #### about the people that don't like them? Go run in whatever shoe you like and STFU.

Hoka sucks big sweaty ones. I run too fast for Hoka shoes. They are great for the slow runners with zero talent, but anyone with even 1% of talent should never buy them.

You sound down, can't you break 30 min for 5K? You have zero talent I would assume and if I met you I'd punch you in your pus^y!

I too own a Hoka hat!

...wait, what?

peaceful runner wrote:

Save your hate for the 800.

LRC comment of the year 2015

You like whatever works for you. Stop hating and go put on your shitty pegasus.

Stockpiled...still have a box of unopened shoes... found them in 2015 off of FootLocker

Poor balance? You wouldn't say that if you saw adept I've become hopping around on one foot for the last 5 weeks!

I've definitely seen a drop in my knee pain. I'm a huge fan of somewhat minimal shoes such as the New Balance 1400, or Asics Hyperspeed, but the Hokas have really helped my knees recover from running in shoes like that. Hope this helps.

Dan Murphy wrote:

but I don't see these shoes as helping much with alleviating patellar arthritis pain. I do feel Treadmill running is far easier on the joints, now!

Try raising the incline on the treadmill and doing some runs at 5 or 6%. You can get an even better workout in that is easier on the body. I had some back problems over the years and was able to still train pretty well.

As a rule of thumb, if I am at 6%, my pace should be two minutes slower than running on level. Once you have run a few minutes, you can adjust accordingly.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

Hoka sucks big sweaty ones. I run too fast for Hoka shoes. They are great for the slow runners with zero talent, but anyone with even 1% of talent should never buy them.

Manzano, Rutt, and Tully disagree

weak runners? how?

I hate when I get through two pages of a thread and realize it's from 4 years ago!!! That being said. Hoka's have saved my running.. Stinson ATR for regular runs... SpeedGoats for hiking/backpacking/mt running... Want to try the Mafete's

After buying 5 pairs of different Hokas, one of them being for my wife I can definitely say these people know not what they're doing. After wearing nothing but Hokas for a period of time I have now a bunion on my right foot and a massive calloused area on my left foot. These were cause by my brand new running shoes and boots respectively. Not only that, my wife has decided to finnaly wear her running shoes for work. After only one day you wouldn't believe the the size of the bubble (not the correct term I know) she had on both her feet. Shame I can't post images for your appreciation, you'd be repulsed is all I can say

The worst is that after contacting hola they somehow told me it's kinda my fault, on our first emails and completely stopped replying after issues just mounted and email to them followed.

Definitely be pursuing a legal case as I now need surgery on my right foot due to the bunion I contracted wearing Hokas running shoes.

Bunions are primarily caused by genetics more than anything, sorry dude. Sue your parents

Personally, it doesn't work for me. It's like running on a bed of puffed up cardboard boxes. Not against max trainers per se but Hoka is just off.

Please let us know how your lawsuit goes!

(This should be good for a laugh)