Is it possible that stability features make my feet hurt when running?
I have a mizuno stability shoe w/ the "wave plate" for over pronation. My feet hurt within 20 minutes in them and I don't have a specific reason why... I can run in the kinvaras no problem; it's only that if my footstrike gets sloppy, my feet will start to hurt. It sounds strange, doesn't it.
Are you in the Inspire 8? My right foot goes numb in them now. I've had Inspires for 10 years w/ no problems. I even had the Osaka inspire 8's - no prob. I thought it might just be me.
Your experince is not at all unusual. Sorry to say. Stability shoes have been overprescribed for a long time. They make up about 70% of all running shoes sold when in reality only 35% of runners demonstrate a need for them. Meaning half the population wearing stability trainers may be overcorrected. Sounds as if you are getting better results from your neutral shoes, you may want to stick with them.
The shoe probably is to high of a stability support. If you try the Saucony Guide 5, it offers the same kind of support, but gives a little less than the mizunos I believe.
You may have more of a neutral foot, which is why the kinvaras work better for you, but for a inbetween neutral and stability shoe is the Saucony Guide 5s.
It probobly isnt so much that a neutral runner wants the stability shoe but more like the running store expert told him thats what he needs.