Do you have race shoes? Long run shoes? Recovery run shoes? Warm up for track shoes? track shoes? Shoes for workouts that only only fall on the second Thursday of every other month?
Probably like 15.
i have one pair of shoe for hard surface running and one for offroad.
- One pair for regular training and racing. Another pair for Olympic & Sprints that are sock less, light, and quick for transitions.
7 total:
3 trainers
1 light weight trainer/racer
3 racers
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Three shoes. All Hokas. Run 3-4 times a week on “fresh” shoes. Tend to run the oldest pair on the treadmill. The newer pair for faster/longer runs.
Buying one pair of Hokas a year will work for me as long as they keep making like them the way they are now.
-2x hoka Clifton 3 - easy and long runs
-Hoka bondi 5 - usually easy runs but I’m too beat up from miles these days to ever wear these, I always reach for the cliftons
-hoka Clayton - tempo runs
-hoka tracer - track/race
-Nike Vaporfly 4% - just got these a couple of weeks ago. Went on a tempo run to check them out and now they’ll be saved for races save for a few runs leading into the races to make sure I’m used to them.
two trainers
two light weight trainers
two racers
two tri shoes
one “heavy” trainer
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Huh. I have shoes everywhere. In the car, at work, on the treadmill, back door, front door, bedroom, at mom’s… I’m guessing there are 12 pairs. Only 2 are semi-new.
Three pairs
Track shoes: Saucony Endorphin Racers 2 - tempo runs/track workouts/bricks
Road shoes: Altra Escalante - long runs, recovery runs
Race shoes: Newton Triracers (not made anymore and have one new pair left)
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Every day shoes - Mizuno Rider
Fast training day, Long dist tri shoes - Mizuno Hitogami
Sprint, Oly race shoe - Asics Hyper Tri
Every day Trail shoes - Mizuno Ascend
Race Trail shoes - Mizuno Hyate - Asics Fuji Racer, depends on the trail
6 pairs
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3 pairs
Trainers- Nike Pegasus
Tempo- NB 1400
Race- Nike Vapor Fly (haven’t been used yet)
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I feel inadequate, I’m only rotating through 2 pairs…the new 361-Strata 2 and 361-Spinject (both for obvious reasons). I guess I’ll need to start wearing a different pair of shoes for all my runs.
I think 4. Two Hoka Clifton 3, one older but still serviceable, one brand new. One Bondi 5. And one near-mint Clifton 1 perma-packed in the transition bag for racing.
Probably doesn’t count: got an all-black OC (on cloud) shoe that I wear to work. We are business casual and this shoe looks like a dress shoe but feels like a running shoe. Best purchase I made all year!
Do you have race shoes? Long run shoes? Recovery run shoes? Warm up for track shoes? track shoes? Shoes for workouts that only only fall on the second Thursday of every other month?
two:
New Balance Boracay Version 2 for long runs
New Balance 1500 v2 for intervals and races
I need a new pair of both.
I’m the outlier here–I’ve almost always had one pair of running shoes until I retire them and the next one enters the rotation. I’m skeptical alternating shoes somehow extends the life–synthetic uppers dry pretty quickly, and midsoles bounce back quickly (or not at all). I figure my body habituates to a particular pair of shoes, mixing things up doesn’t seem helpful, and potentially risky.
I ran in Mizuno Wave Riders for years, and just recently switched to Hoka Cliftons. Both are do-it-all shoes for me, I run a combination of pavement and fairly mellow trails. I’m not faster in the Hokas, maybe even a tad slower, but the way they keep me midfoot-striking, and secondarily their generous cushion, do seem to make me less injury-prone.
- 1 Pair of trainers
- 1 Pair of trail shoes
- 1 Pair of racers
I always tell myself I’ll use my old trainers for some recoveryruns or whatever, but once I get a new pair they never see daylight again.
At the moment,
3 -
Hoka Cliftons as my ‘distance’ shoe
Salming Distance as ‘speed’ and
Salming Trail as, well, trail shoes. And travel shoes etc - it’s nice to have even a tiny amount of grip on snow and ice - the Hokas feel like you’re totally disconnected from anything when it’s slippery or icy.
Accessorised with yaktrax running crampons.
1 = brooks launch 4
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Three:
NB Zante for general or pacey runs.
Adidas Supernova Boost for longer runs
Adidas Kanadia Trail for off-road.
Plus race shoes, and about 5 others I can’t bring myself to throw away. How could I call myself a runner and only have three pairs!