Hoka

Transport X

Unisex

HI i bought this on may no its just ripped my sides are so ripped ... its not durable at all.. i wore this only for running after few scratches it ripped... durabilty not even one year.. 4 months of wearing it .. it was cool looking shoes but 200 for just 4 month .. i dont think i would buy again .

I am a longtime Hoka wearer, for at least 5 years and have owned probably 25 pairs. I am an avid runner of 75 miles+ weekly and burn through shoes fast. I gave these a try for running + lifting days. I don't love them for either, but they cross-over enough that I don't need to bring two pairs of shoes to the gym and change midway through. They are too clunky for me to be a great running shoe. For my running shoes, I like the Hoka All Gender Rocket X (have bought at least 8-10 pairs) but I hate the X2 colors so I am working through my stashed reserve. Bought these in white because I am sick of the loud, vibrant, in your face colors sometimes. For the gym, the heel is too stacked to be a great cross trainer, but again, it's good enough to not bring 2 pairs of shoes for a workout. Biggest complaint though is that the toe box is SO WIDE. Look at the top-down picture of the shoe, it's very wide. It's like a Ronald McDonald shoe up there. These are cut for someone with a wider foot and/or a man since men genetically, as a whole, have wider feet than women, even if length is the same. I am a women's 12 to 12.5 which should be a men's 10.5 or 11, and unisex womens12/mens 11 fits in the length but they are very wide and I have to cinch them down like crazy.

I am an oddball when it comes to fitting my shoes, normally I have to buy the 2E extra wide version of a shoe, but not with these. For the first time in my life, I was able to buy the normal shoe (non wide) and put in on and literally hit the ground running. To give some context, for the past 2 years I have only had Bondi's size 11.5 2E, but back then I was heavier (about 290lbs+-), Bondies where very forgiving to my untrained/wrong/incorrect striking to the floor form, but they allowed me to lose some weight and practice my form and make corrections. Now that I am lighter, I have shifted my normal running stance, corrected my striking form. Because Bondi's tend to be on the plush side when striking the floor, I noticed that was absorbing my momentum energy as well, thus robbing me 2cents of momentum, it was a little, but when aggregated would signify a great deal of energy/momentum being lost into the sinkhole. Enter the Transport X, they are bouncy rather than plush, they are extremely comfortable at the wide of my feet!!! They fit like a glove the very first day, to me that has never happened. I run 5k at a minimum when I go out and the 3-4 time I used them, I started experimenting with different strike styles that I have learned. Suddenly I felt like there was a gust of air around me, but there was no wind that day, to my own amazement, was the wind hitting my earphones because I was displacing the air in front!, I immediately thought to myself, "I have never being able to go this fast!!!", once conscious of this, my vision started experiencing this eerie effect that I don't know how to better to describe (parallax maybe). Long story short, my very first run got me to beat my personal all time 5k record, the second day went even faster and so on... you get the gist. To be honest, I have had them for not more than a month and I don't never ever write reviews for anything, but these Transport's I thought deserved a mention. In my book well worth $.

I have a bunion on top of my big toe rather than on the side and have been looking for a shoe that has a rocker soul and doesn't break across the front. This one is perfect. It's lightweight and very sturdy at the same time. Yay Hoka!

Usually a women's 8.5 but it was huge, probably getting a 7.5 when back in stock.