Supinators often need extra cushion, so look at highly cushioned shoes. Also look for shoes that have outsole on the lateral side of the toeoff area. Some shoes just assume runners will be rolling across the ball of the foot and over to the big toe.
I’m a big fan of the Nike Epic React. It’s a reasonably light, highly cushioned trainer. Softer and lighter than the Ghost for example. Well suited to both high mileage training and speedwork. I assume he’ll be racing in spikes.
Thanks to the replies thus far. Yes he’ll race in spikes but I’ll have to figure that out as well. The ones I got him didn’t work too well. However I think it may have been because he had already tweaked his ankle.
Spikes are never going to feel great. They rely on you running on softer surfaces (tracks, grass, etc.) and not running too often in them or too far (basically races only).
There are spikes today with a lot more cushion (ex. the Hoka below), that the “distance” spikes of old (below that) which had minimal heel cushioning and basically no forefoot cushioning.
