What we don’t like in regards to the Hoka Transport GTX
ROBBE: I’ve worn this shoe on a 7-mile run and as an on a regular basis shoe for a few week. I’m nonetheless praying each the higher and midsole break in, however I’ve my doubts.
I’ve zero doubts that the Cordura abrasion resistant textile that makes up the higher is extremely sturdy. It’ll definitely final a very long time. Nonetheless, what it has in sturdiness it lacks in consolation. The higher is straight-up stiff as a board, to the purpose that it’s actually awkward and uncomfortable. It feels prefer it’s not possible to get a superb match as a result of it doesn’t conform to your foot in any method. The toe field is so arduous and stiff that there’s nearly no flexibility.
It feels such as you’re carrying a shell, particularly because the toe field ceiling is so low. There’s a superb quantity of rubbing on the medial facet of each large toes, nearly just like the toe field portion of the final cuts in too arduous and too quick.
When it comes to the midsole, it’s supposedly a excessive stack shoe, however feels extra like one thing within the 25 mm vary. It’s not tender or bouncy, as you’ll perhaps anticipate from a Hoka. I sometimes blame this on the sugarcane EVA; 90% of the time after I see that in a shoe, I discover it to be usually agency (howdy, Allbirds). Once more, I don’t suppose it’s terrible, I simply suppose that you must reset your expectations, as a result of they’re most likely fairly totally different for those who’re shopping for a Hoka shoe.
