How long do running shoes last?

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  • terridyment
    terridyment Posts: 52 Member
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    I replace my runners at least every 6 months. My feet do start noticing the lack of support if I go long then that.
  • legreene515
    legreene515 Posts: 276 Member
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    500 miles or every six months. My shoe salesperson told me to date the side of my shoe, and calculate my mileage from that date. I did. I bought mine in November, but am still wearing them because I had an injury and took three months off. I'll most likely buy new ones at the beginning of August.

    I have Brooks Ravennas, and I like them but I'm also wondering if they weren't the best possible fit for me. Have you been fitted? I'm going to this new place where I live that puts you on a treadmill that analyzes stride, etc. while running to help find the perfect fit. Worth the money in my opinion not to get an injury!
  • Doodlewhopper
    Doodlewhopper Posts: 1,018 Member
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    I subscribe to the thought where my shoes last until they start to hurt when I run in them. I've had some shoes that have worn down less than 250 miles and I have a pair of shoes that have lasted me over 700 miles. The pair that has lasted me over 700 miles is also around 2 years old if I'm not mistaken. I have several friends who can have a pair last for well over 1000 miles.

    There's no way any pair of running shoes can go that long without the support completely breaking down. They may not hurt your feet until 700+ miles, but it's almost certain they're negatively impacting your knees and back. That said, I never replace my shoes when I should. :/

    I disagree. If I find time I will try and look it up, but I believe that it was Arthur Lydiard who would put his very worn out running shoes on the wrong foot just to prove his point that modern running shoes were a farce.

    I found this on accident! LOL It wasnt Arthur Lydiard it was David Smyntek. Read the entire article, very interesting.

    "To add weight to their argument, the acute-injury rehabilitation specialist David Smyntek carried out an experiment of his own. He had grown wary that the people telling him to trade in his favourite shoes every 300-500 miles were the same people who sold them to him.

    But how was it, he wondered, that Arthur Newton, for instance, one of the greatest ultrarunners of all time, who broke the record for the 100-mile Bath-London run at the age of 51, never replaced his thin-soled canvaspumps until he'd put at least 4,000 miles on them?

    So Smyntek changed tack. Whenever his shoes got thin, he kept on running. When the outside edge started to go, he swapped the right for the left and kept running. Five miles a day, every day.

    Once he realised he could run comfortably in broken-down, even wrong-footed shoes, he had his answer. If he wasn't using them the way they were designed, maybe that design wasn't such a big deal after all.

    He now only buys cheap trainers. "     http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1170253/The-painful-truth-trainers-Are-expensive-running-shoes-waste-money.html

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