Experience exceptional cushioning that reduces impact on joints during high-intensity activities, best shoes for the gym.

Advice for Trail Runners: The HOKA Women's Challenger 8 Running Shoes are the ultimate door-to-trail running shoes.

Underfoot Feel

A thick layer of compression moulded EVA foam offers lots of protection for runs on hard surfaces.

Thanks to HOKA's Smooth MetaRocker technology, you should experience smooth transitions from landing to take-off.

The rearfoot-focused Active Foot Frame cradles the back of your feet. This is likely to improve your sensation of support on tarmac and uneven tracks.

Multi-directional 4 mm lugs offer extra traction on a mixtures of surfaces. Importantly, the lug orientation should feel relatively good on hard-packed ground.

Overall, the HOKA Challenger 8 Running Shoes should feel comfortable on both road and trail.

Upper Fit

The upper has a recycled engineered mesh.

Featuring a 3D screen printed toe cap, your toes should be protected if they hit off hard objects - such as rocks and tree routes.

Ideal Run Type

A lot of running shoes are designed exclusively for road runs or trail runs. The strength of the HOKA Women's Challenger 8 Running Shoes is that they are designed for both.

If you train on a mixtures of surfaces - frequently running to and from trails - the HOKA Challenger 8 Running Shoes are definitely one if the best options.

Technical Features

• Approximate weight: 247 grams
• Drop: 8 mm
• Durabrasion rubber for enhanced durability
• Colour: Blush/Dark Cedar

Sizing Advice

Shoe size is a personal preference and everyone's feet are different, but we want to ensure you avoid any pain or discomfort from bruised toenails, rubbing, blistering or pins and needles.

Your running shoes should have enough width to allow you to spread your toes and should have some space at the front (we recommend having a half to one thumb's width of space from the end of your longest toe to the front of your running shoes).

This usually means thatyour running shoewill beat least a half size bigger than your regular shoe sizethough this can vary from brand to brand.

The shock-absorbing properties are engineered to mitigate impact on joints, cloud vs shoes.