 may have made them a little bit dirty. Hello everyone my name is Stephen welcome to film my run if you've not seen this channel before. I've been around a little while but I make real-world running videos so I film my marathons, my ultras, some triathlons as well in the real world and I edit them down and post them online. I've not really been into making review videos but I am starting to do so because everybody is asking me to make product reviews so here we are. Disclaimers out of the way I am not sponsored by Hoka. You may have seen my recent video of the CCC Ultra Race in Chamonix which was partly sponsored by Hoka but I am not a Hoka representative and the shoes I am going to show you today I purchased with my own money actually probably my wife's credit card but nevertheless my own money essentially but I am sponsored by a company called Zwift they're an e-sports company we do running and cycling online so you can go to Zwift.com forward slash running and sign up they also do cycling it's an online game but you actually do do the running and the cycling so you run on a treadmill in a virtual world and I do a lot of that and if you look at my channel here you'll see a lot of Zwift online running videos as well. So that's who I am let's get into the review of the Hoka Mofate Evos. Here they are they are somewhat dirty I was going to wash them but I thought no do you know what let's show you them as they are after they've been well used and these have been well used over the past few years. Let me see what Strava says. Strava says I have done over 150 miles in these 250 kilometers. I have been wearing Hoka's quite a lot over the past few years so I started off with some Challenger ATR's I've also got some Clifton road shoes and for a long time now I've been wearing the Speed Goat 2. The Speed Goat 2 was a great shoe but it did have some flaws and the flaws mainly centered on the upper and let me just show you. So if you had the original Speed Goat 2's you would see that they always split here look can you see that split there where the plastic met the material here there was always seemed to split at the bend of the foot there. Then they came out with the Hoka Speed Goat 2 version 2 which kind of did away with the split down here kind of made that a solid piece of plastic there so it didn't split anymore but the other big problem for me with Speed Goats was the vibram sole which certainly for me on some runs I found that the lugs were not deep enough and I didn't get enough grip on certain kind of rock or chalk that kind of thing so I thought I'd try something new. Step in the new Mofate Evo's way back in 2009 the Mofate was the first shoe Hoka made it's developed a lot obviously since then and we've had the Mofate speed and now the Evo's Hoka say the difference between the Mofate speed and the Evo here is to do mainly with the midsole in that they've used a different kind of cushioning two different kinds of cushioning one called R-Bound which is more durable and lighter apparently but I've never worn the Hoka speed so I can't comment on the difference between the two. So let's have a look at the main features of the Mofate Evo's we bought these brand new at the Hoka stand in Chamonix before the CCC race at the UTMB week as long as you're confident that you've got the correct fit for your feet trail shoes should just mold in and be perfectly fine I wore these brand new for a hundred kilometer race over tough terrain lots of climbing I mean if you know CCC you know what it's like and they were brand new when I put them on and this is what they look like 150 miles later if you want to see them on my feet brand you go and look at my CCC video on this channel you'll see them beautifully shiny and clean and then you'll see them totally covered in mud at the end of the race so go and do that. The upper is a Kevlar mesh material it feels very durable and over 150 miles in it hasn't ripped anywhere at all as far as I can see so it seems after 150 miles that it is a good solid strong material feels very comfortable as well on the upper foot underneath is the usual Vibram mega grip different to the Speed Gut 2's in that the lugs are definitely deeper and I've definitely noticed a difference when I'm going downhill on chalk or rock the grip is much much better than the Speed Gut 2's so the only time that I actually slipped over using these shoes during the CCC 100 K race was on a very steep section of grass where it had been raining so it wasn't like mud where you could kind of the the lugs go into the mud and grip the mud they kind of stayed on top of the grass and the grass was wet and I mean everybody was slipping I didn't see anyone who was able to stay upright so I don't think there's any trail shoe really that could have coped I've never worn the terror claws or mud claws but I don't think there are any shoes that could have coped with with that terrain particularly and all the other terrain that I ran on that I have run on in these shoes these shoes have managed very well indeed obviously you've got lovely thick cushioning perfect for really long distance running very comfortable as are the ATR's and the Speed Goats I've never had a problem with the comfort in the Hockers absolutely wonderful to wear for 100 mile races and longer the main weird thing that I've noticed about the evos is the tongue now if I compare let's get these speed goat twos you've got quite a thick long tongue here quite comfortable doesn't slip around it's perfectly alright why they've changed it in the Maffate evos I don't know this is I can't even really get it out for me but it's a very flat very thin tongue it does lie nice and flat against your foot but it is a bit weird and there is a problem with this because I have noticed when running long distances that this edge here the edge of the tongue digs into my foot and when I've taken my shoes off I have got a cut an abrasion on my foot where the tongue has dug in I guess that will only happen to you if you're wearing these shoes for really long distances but then again these shoes are made for running really long distances in so it's not a great thing and perhaps something they might think about changing in the future and one other thing I've noticed after 150 miles of running in this shoe there is one place where they seem to be coming apart a little bit if you can see right on the end of the toe here some of the stitching between the outsole and the material some of the stitching is coming a bit loose let's see if the other one the other one is worse so you can see here that's after 150 miles the stitching is just coming away there there's no rip of the material as such but it's definitely the stitching has definitely come away from the join between there and the outsole that said in terms of a trail shoe these are without doubt the best trail shoes I've worn certainly for running distances of a hundred miles and more absolutely will wear these from now on over and above challenger 80 hours over and above speed goat twos and even the version 2 speed goat to the grip is much better comfort is about the same but still great but durability these do seem to have lasted a lot better after 150 miles than the speed goat twos and certainly the challenges challenger 80 hours when I ran transvolcania and 75 kilometers over volcanic rock the souls of my challenger 80 hours were completely wrecked the same race and other 100 mile races with the speed goat twos very quickly the split in the side happened that hasn't happened with the version 2 speed goat twos but I feel the difference is the outsole on these is better than the speed goat twos version 1 or version 2 and so I will be sticking with these from now on in terms of price well there's your problem the evos are expensive probably one of the most expensive trail shoes you are likely to find about 150 UK pounds what's that is that 200 US dollars very expensive for me they're worth it because mainly what I do is long distance ultra running where taking care of my feet is very important so comfort durability of the shoe really important factors but for you obviously you have to decide whether it's worth spending that amount of money okay in terms of width you might have a problem if you need a wide toe box hooker generally do tend to be a little bit narrow although you know I used ultras in the past because I thought I needed a wide toe box but actually these have been fine as have my hooker Clifton's and the speed goats as well I've not really had much of a problem in terms of width certainly the speed goat twos are wider than the speed goat ones and these are about the same as the speed goat twos I'm not generally one to suffer with blisters or hot spots on my feet when running I tend to be very lucky in that regard so you might want to take this with a pinch of salt but I've not had any problems with hot spots or blisters or anything to do with problems with my feet when wearing these shoes but I don't tend to anyway I do wear in gingy socks and I do wear a little rubber toe cap over my big toe and I always make sure that I cut my toenails before I go in the long run so if you do suffer with blisters in any type of shoe maybe just make sure that you wear decent socks you take care of your feet in terms of cutting the toenails right down before you do a really long run and maybe yeah you might you might want to try the silicone or rubber toe caps you need to get specific running ones because the ones you can get off Amazon will shred very quickly so in summary it is a win for the Hocker Maffate Evos in terms of durability in terms of comfort and they look pretty good too so it's a win there in terms of price maybe not so much depending on what you think you're gonna need them for how much you're gonna use them it's very easy to get sucked into the hype about this shoe at the moment this shoe is the one that is being marketed by Hocker as the shoe for long-distance trail running and you know Jim Wamsley wears them Tom Evans who won the CCC that I raced in he wears them they really are being pushed by the Hocker team as the shoe to wear so perhaps you don't want to get drawn into the hype but honestly I urge you do try them out because in my opinion they are definitely the best shoe that Hocker have produced so far the most comfortable shoe that Hocker have produced so far and the most durable shoe that they've produced so far what else am I supposed to mention in a review of trail shoes upper durability comfort cushioning the sole grip heel drop I mean you know I guess I should try and create some kind of scoring mechanism for my reviews as yet I haven't worked out one but you know I will I I will I will at some point work out how to score all this stuff the problem is you don't want to copy other people do you so I need to kind of create my own what how do you do that because like this right the only there are only certain things you can score you can score the outsole you can score the upper you can score how good they look you can score the cut the price of them so there's only so many things you can do you know without I don't know appear like I'm copying Ethan for God's sake I mean let's be honest there are other reviewers out there who do product reviews I'm not I don't want to try and be like them I don't want to try and copy them but at the same time if we are reviewing a shoe there's you know there are going to be things that I mentioned that other reviewers mentioned which are the same doesn't mean I'm copying them or they're copying me but there will be of course things that I mentioned which other reviewers don't things I pick up on which other reviewers perhaps don't and vice versa suffice to say I absolutely love these Maffate Evo's I will be running in Maffate Evo's for the foreseeable future I think my many pairs of Speed Goat 2's will have to sit in the cupboard for quite a while from now on and that is it guys that is my review of the Hoka Maffate Evo's if you've got a comment if you've used the Evo's please do comment down below let me know what you think of them let me know what your choice of trail shoe is I am just getting into doing product reviews so let me know what you think we'll try and do more let me know if there's any products you'd like me to review if I can get hold of them I will do please click below to subscribe to the Filmira on YouTube channel and you know that bell icon thing that lets you know when I've uploaded do you know what I wish I was like eight years old and I could do all that smash that like button click the bell down below to get notifications it won't release a new video but I'm not eight so you know just do the stuff that you know you got to do if you want to see more videos by me 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