The best trailrunner i ever had was the altra lone peak, the blue ones. Everyone i work with tells me altra has fallen off in quality though. I've been using a pair of Topos more recently, pretty happy but still miss my altras. Really not liking the recent trend of the flare at the bottom of trailrunner shoes, these topos have it a little. Maybe having a wider base is better but it just looks so stupid, like clown shoes or fashion basketball shoes. Hokas seem really bad for that. And just ugly in general. I have a pair I have yet to use because they look so bad.
But ultimately I work an /out/ job and most of my coworkers wear altras, hokas, topos, or la sportiva
