A friend who runs together has probably found that I liked Hoka One One's shoes, but I and Hoka One One are definitely not at first sight, seeing it before, I never heard it, the first time I saw the feeling is just how surprised Will be in the Skyrunning champion runners feet to see a pair of big and thick, looks a little strange shoes.
Speaking and Hoka One One's fate, in fact, stumbled start ...
The first time I saw Hoka One One in February 2015, I am having a lucky chance to meet the cross-country run for more than a year. I am invited to Hong Kong to participate in the Sai Kung 50 Racing Championship. There will be a chance at that time in 2015 Skyrunning World Champion on the road, and later also won the championship cross-country star Nepal legendary runners Mira Rai some interactive, privately very cordial and lovely, the track on the handsome girl!
After the game, I watched the electronic album to enjoy the event invited international players are beautiful posture, see Mira game wearing a pair of flat shoes, I am a little dumbfounded ... this event to see the most Salomon is also a player of the most invited team; and cross-country rookie as I, only through the five-toe shoes and the game came Merrell cross-country shoes (thank Merrell for high quality Cross-country races and runners support), Mira at the foot of the pair of green fat shoes feel very puzzled and curious, pass photos to the cross-country run predecessors inquire about the original she was wearing the Hoka One One, suddenly a lot of question mark: What is the number of cards have not heard? Then the big pair will not be heavy? Looks like a dwarf music to wear up will not be a little funny? Soles so high will not be easy to capsize? If the overturned so high is not it miserable?
The first time to wear Hoka One One is also a mistake ...
in September 2015, I finished my first road in Kyotango, Japan 100 K, reported that day, we are busy at the venue, the venue only hot dogs, Beer, energy glue, energy bar, the General Assembly to commemorate the goods and a sell shoes stalls, selling is Hoka One One. I and the other two super-horse predecessors Yan Sister, watermelon at the venue at a very favorable price to buy my first pair of Hoka One One, I and Yan Jie sister nickname it "chubby shoes."
The day before leaving Japan, I went to Osaka to visit a friend recommended off-road shop, ask the clerk to recommend a pair of Hong Kong 100 HK100 track off-road shoes, clerks recommend a pair of purple Stinson3, although still feel like it looks a bit like Dwarf music, but put on a few steps to feel really comfortable, checkout, suddenly thought to the clerk to see my day before the shoes to buy photos,
The clerk said, "Oh, you bought that day is Stinson"
I thought "what, I bought two pairs of shoes like the same ..." but has checked out, who told you to buy their own shoes do not do homework
The clerk is probably a bit to see my mind, comfort me "you buy today is Stinson3, the venue to buy the pair is Stinson1 market has no distribution, should be inventory, the outside can not be sold so cheap" uh, well, I Did not do homework, but you said the prevail
Stinson3, a pair of trust shoes let me enjoy the pleasure of cross-country run to
buy shoes, I still do not get used to the Internet to see the evaluation, it has been used to buy the road crossing the stall of the Stinson1 highway, with off-road shop to buy Stinson3 run long distance off the road, feel super good wear, with a pair of shoes a pair of running a pair of road running off-road I feel no sense of violation ... until Stinson3 ran more than 500K to retreat on the occasion, only Hong Kong runners told me "You are wearing a pair of Stinson3 is actually running shoes" uh ... with Stinson3 was originally a beautiful misunderstanding
I used to run a lot of runners told me that "you are a pair of running shoes" I vaguely replied "may be all the road shoes, road and cross the road are suitable for it
Until the runners of Hong Kong is sure that I wear a road running shoes, I went to the Internet to check, Huh The Really yeah! The The original soles of the flat Stinson is the road running shoes; another shoe stitching deep Stinson ATR is cross-country shoes ... but so clear when I have been used as off-road competition shoes Stinson3 has been running hundreds of kilometers, To retreat to my mother when walking shoes ... take it by step, my mother every morning to walk 2 hours exercise, she love my retirement Hoka One One shoes
Ran more than 500K Stinson3 soles, retreated from the game shoes, or very good to wear walking shoes
Stinson's soles are very shallow, and every time I wear it, it will be asked, "it is not completely free, it should slip," but it is really not slippery, especially in the North Taiwan specialty wet stone steps, slate , Never let me slip, is my very trust shoes. Also this pair of shoes, let me break some myths, not the best shoes, only the most suitable for their shoes.
The deeper the carving, the better?
My running method is more conservative, and carved deep shoes in the dirt road grip for the positive run may be very helpful, but I do not necessarily have significant differences, and therefore I for the depth of the carved, direction, style ... no research, but for the talc board can give me a sense of security sole material more concerned about.
Hard soles wear and grip good?
In fact, I am very hard for the sole material used in cross-country running no good impression. From the climbing period to wear Vibram climbing shoes that it is good in the dirt road grip, wear strong, very suitable for ventilated open mountain, but wear to go to Yangming Mountain shade stone stone road often screaming again and again. It was not until this year that I realized that the original Vibram soles had many different recipes, and the material properties used in cross-country running shoes were usually measured between wear and grip friction. And recently received many shoe favored Vibram Megagrip material, is Vibram by a large number of runners sure non-slip measures.
The first double "real" Hoka One One off-road shoe is Speedgoat
The first pair of Hoka One One off-road shoes is the United States and the size of the United States and the United States to buy big, and try to run after a habit, offer sold to me, pink color is very pleasing, the first time to go out to try to run on the Megagrip Of the powerful, but also immediately know why the United States to wear it through the road after the road that is not used to sell, because the megaprip material asphalt road has a sticky feeling (this description is not very accurate, but I can not think of other adjectives), this The friction on the stone steps may become a bit of resistance on the asphalt road. But it is in the wet slate stone slippery on the performance is really amazing, in such a road, wearing their own trust shoes, speed and mood will be much worse.
Also equipped with megagrip, more suitable than Speedgoat wide foot Mafate Speed 2
Speedgoat's megagrip soles were well received in the off-road community discussions, but there were a lot of people who were distressed by the narrows of the last, and the Mafate Speed 2, another megagrip soles, solved the problem of narrow lasts, more suitable for wide feet, There is more space, and soles in addition to the use of Megagrip material, engraved deep, show that the shoes want to master the road map of the heart.
I am in the snow season wearing MafateSpeed2 on the snow-capped mountains, stepping on the previous day also had a soft snow, not on the claws to firmly onto the main peak, slip and grip performance is very good, MS2 thick bottom with impermeable upper (Later wash shoes was found), let me step on the snow in the snow and snow feet completely wet. It will be lifted after the river will be faster than the mesh side of the speedgoat slow and slightly airtight (so need to soak the water to the knee height of the beasts of the beast track did not choose MS2 play), but the impermeable table cloth material is very smooth, dirty In the water column with a finger wiping or brush light brush to wash the mud is very clean, do not wet the whole pair of shoes, shoes is very convenient.
Challenge ATR3
Before the Stinson ran off the road was asked why to wear a super-road running shoes running off the road, I have chaos Huarong thought it is the answer "it should be road running / cross-country use of the whole road shoes", and later learned that Stinson had runway and Stinson ATR off-road differences, and Challenger ATR3 is the port of the demands of the whole road shoes, wear it run through the road and cross-country horse, really very suitable.
But I and my sister feel ATR3 color tend to be conservative, we like ATR2's lively color, but the color is personal taste, a matter of opinion (photo blue / pink is ATR2, black / gray is ATR3)
My Yangming Mountain vertical to go personal PB: 4 hours 52 minutes, is to wear Challenger ATR3 completed, but also in the morning after the warships rock 7K, then take the shuttle bus to the Qing Dynasty palace, west into the east of the mountain, Not very fast speed, but can run the place must run up, and this pair of shoes so I am very relieved in their own running section to speed up the speed to run up.
Challenger ATR3 is a very practical and easy to wear shoes, it is suitable for people who run off-road and super-horse to start the first pair of Hoka
This film is a very detailed introduction to the Challenger ATR3, but also I used to describe the text or difficult to convey the middle of the right soft Q and cushioning is very clear, of course, if you want the most accurate understanding of what in the end is the feeling, Be sure to find a point of sale to wear it a few steps to try, or, even better is to use Hoka One One from time to time try to run the test run, personally experience it, I hope you will like me like it.
Carefully read this short film can still long knowledge Oh, you will know Hoka One One the correct reading method (in the beginning to introduce carefully listen)
