How often do you replace your running shoes? Do you rotate pairs?
300mi
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300 miles…
Around 500 miles I get a new pair and use the older ones as a backup.
400+ if they still feel good
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Probably 300 to 400 miles.
I have a pair of race-only shoes with quick laces, which last a whole season or more.
I replace training shoes regularly and relegate my previous pair of training shoes to everyday shoe. The old everyday shoe gets thrown out. All three sets of shoes are the same. I’m too reliant upon my feet to risk wearing something random, even if just to work or grocery store.
How often do you replace your running shoes? Do you rotate pairs?
Every 400 miles and no I don’t rotate pairs as it seems too complicated, e.g., if you’re wearing two pairs of the identical shoes, then you’d have to number or letter them and then track their miles separately in your log book, which seems just a bit too much. Also, the idea that my running shoes need a day off but my legs don’t has always just seemed wrong to me. I have thought about it a bunch because I usually run through a park which often has wet grass and unavoidable puddles after a hard rain so many times my shoes don’t dry out overnight but, on the other hand, they’re not that wet after 24 hrs so I just put them back on and eventually they’ll dry out after 2-3 days.
350-400 miles but they tend to fade away rather than burning out. I generally have 10+ pairs of shoes on the go at once - 2 workhorses that I’m currently doing most of my runs on, the last two pairs of workhorses that still come out for shakeouts and recoveries, flats, those weird shoes I bought because I was intrigued but never got on with, the pair of $30 Filas that I bought from a supermarket the last time I went on holiday and realized I’d forgotten my shoes and at least 2 more pairs of shoes that I keep around for reasons I can’t explain.
How often do you replace your running shoes? Do you rotate pairs?
Every 400 miles and no I don’t rotate pairs as it seems too complicated, e.g., if you’re wearing two pairs of the identical shoes, then you’d have to number or letter them and then track their miles separately in your log book, which seems just a bit too much. Also, the idea that my running shoes need a day off but my legs don’t has always just seemed wrong to me. I have thought about it a bunch because I usually run through a park which often has wet grass and unavoidable puddles after a hard rain so many times my shoes don’t dry out overnight but, on the other hand, they’re not that wet after 24 hrs so I just put them back on and eventually they’ll dry out after 2-3 days.
On that point I actually do keep track. If I buy 2 or 3 pairs of identical shoes I number them with a marker and every time I write down my mileage in my excel diary I write the mileage again in a separate column for that pair of shoes.
No set amount of miles, but more when my legs tell me.
It’s weird, I can run in a pair of shoes one day and not notice anything unusual - and run in them again the next day and I finish the run feeling like an old man.
That’s when I replace them.
That is what happened to me. One day my shoes were great - next day feet hurt like crazy. Tried them again in couple days - hurt again. Then I looked at milage - they are sitting at 350 so sounds like I am off to get new shoes.
I start rotating in a new pair somewhere between 600-800 miles and retire the old pair somewhere between 800-1000 miles. For reference, this only applies to road shoes, and I run almost exclusively in Brooks T7s. Trail shoes don’t get rotated because they seem to last forever.
I’m always curious as to what causes a person to rotate their shoes out after 300 miles. Even the most poorly-designed and poorly-constructed shoes that I’ve owned were still 100% functional after 300 miles. I can understand ditching them if the fit and function are not what you require, but in terms of viability, are people really killing shoes that quickly?
I start rotating in a new pair somewhere between 600-800 miles and retire the old pair somewhere between 800-1000 miles. For reference, this only applies to road shoes, and I run almost exclusively in Brooks T7s. Trail shoes don’t get rotated because they seem to last forever.
I’m always curious as to what causes a person to rotate their shoes out after 300 miles. Even the most poorly-designed and poorly-constructed shoes that I’ve owned were still 100% functional after 300 miles. I can understand ditching them if the fit and function are not what you require, but in terms of viability, are people really killing shoes that quickly?
I’m at 350-400 but it’s a combination of:
visible wear - I’ll typically have worn through one of more of the backing (where the achilles rubs), the upper just above my big toe, the side around my little toe and the rubber outer (the black stuff) by 350 miles.
perceived loss of cushioning - I’ll acknowledge some of this may be in my head but shoes definitely start to feel dead after a ahile.
caution.
For what it’s worth I’m 145lb and have no weird issues that would cause my to go through shoes quickly. Most of my shoes are light so aren’t as built up as some models and, for example, often only have parts of the soles covered in a thin layer of that black rubber. Once you wear through that and start running on the EVA the end comes pretty fast. Quality is not an issue - life has been pretty constant across Saucony, New Balance, Brooks and Asics and it’s always the material that goes never the glueing or the stitching.
Depends on how the shoe feels. Usually between 150-450 miles, race flats obviously fade faster. I typically have 3-5 active pairs of shoes that I “rotate”, where 2 shoes are my go-to, every day shoes, then a pair of trail shoes, something cushy, a race flat and a pair of spikes.
Anyone who says 3-500 miles is flat out stupid. That is a WAY outdated myth that that is how often they should be replaced. You guys are single-handedly supporting those companies profit margins.
Any pair of running shoes made by a respectable company, e.g., brooks, PI, Nike, asics, etc should last 750 minimum. Shit, I’m probably nearing 8-900 right now in my nike free’s and I have no intentions of changing in the near future. It’s the third pair in a row i’ve done that on. In my running forum most of the guys take their’s that high or higher, it’s not uncommon to see guys take their nike’s to 1500. These are serious runners too, they put solid miles on the street mile after mile.
I mean shit, 300 miles? The shoe is just breaking in? Would you get a new bike every ten thousand miles? Would you replace a training tire on your bike every 1k miles? No, that’s just dumb.
You’re seriously just throwing away money. It’s like the people who change their synthetic oil in their car every 3k-5k miles when it’s WELL known that you can easily go upwards of almost 10k nowadays.
But hey, it’s your money to throw down the toilet.
I don’t ask much, 250 miles and then I replace them.
I used to rotate shoes more than I do now. At one point I was wearing four
different pair per week. My thought was it would even out the stress on my
feet but frankly it didn’t really seem to matter.
I now run in two different models of Hoka One Ones per week.
I’ve been getting about 300-350 miles out of a pair. I try to rotate 2-3 pairs for training and keep another broken-in pair just for racing (with Yankz laces).
I’ve been wearing Nike Air Pegasus’ for the last few years and will normally buy some whenever I see them on sale at Nike.com.
I partially attribute tearing my Achilles tendon in 2010 to the shoes I was wearing at the time. The Air Pegasus have worked well for me since then, so I’m likely sticking with them for the foreseeable future.
I think I’ve got six pairs in closet right now, including one new pair still in the box, and a “retired” pair for casual wear. I took 2-3 older pairs to Goodwill a few weeks ago.
Mark
Anyone who says 3-500 miles is flat out stupid. That is a WAY outdated myth that that is how often they should be replaced. You guys are single-handedly supporting those companies profit margins.
Any pair of running shoes made by a respectable company, e.g., brooks, PI, Nike, asics, etc should last 750 minimum. Shit, I’m probably nearing 8-900 right now in my nike free’s and I have no intentions of changing in the near future. It’s the third pair in a row i’ve done that on. In my running forum most of the guys take their’s that high or higher, it’s not uncommon to see guys take their nike’s to 1500. These are serious runners too, they put solid miles on the street mile after mile.
I mean shit, 300 miles? The shoe is just breaking in? Would you get a new bike every ten thousand miles? Would you replace a training tire on your bike every 1k miles? No, that’s just dumb.
You’re seriously just throwing away money. It’s like the people who change their synthetic oil in their car every 3k-5k miles when it’s WELL known that you can easily go upwards of almost 10k nowadays.
But hey, it’s your money to throw down the toilet.
I guess we have our own money and don’t have to save up our allowance to buy new shoes.
Anyone who says 3-500 miles is flat out stupid. That is a WAY outdated myth that that is how often they should be replaced. You guys are single-handedly supporting those companies profit margins.
Any pair of running shoes made by a respectable company, e.g., brooks, PI, Nike, asics, etc should last 750 minimum. Shit, I’m probably nearing 8-900 right now in my nike free’s and I have no intentions of changing in the near future. It’s the third pair in a row i’ve done that on. In my running forum most of the guys take their’s that high or higher, it’s not uncommon to see guys take their nike’s to 1500. These are serious runners too, they put solid miles on the street mile after mile.
I mean shit, 300 miles? The shoe is just breaking in? Would you get a new bike every ten thousand miles? Would you replace a training tire on your bike every 1k miles? No, that’s just dumb.
You’re seriously just throwing away money. It’s like the people who change their synthetic oil in their car every 3k-5k miles when it’s WELL known that you can easily go upwards of almost 10k nowadays.
But hey, it’s your money to throw down the toilet.
I’m baffled how your experience is so different from mine. I’m a light, efficient and reasonably quick runner and at the point your shoes are “just breaking in” mine are typically starting to come apart. I don’t think I’m the exception either.
Seems like I’m only getting 300 miles or so out of them. I run about 65% concrete 30% asphault, 5% gravel and moderately hilly… so they don’t last long. Ready for another pair now. I don’t seem to have issues with neutral race flats, so I may try and more neutral training shoe this time. 163-167lbs and I’m a “dreaded” heel striker.
I am careful to remind any midfoot striker I see when I pass them that they just got beat by someone with less efficient running form. Same when I pass someone with a superior bike or aero position.