What do you do with your old sneakers?

Triathlon Forum
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Smelly ones? Not so smelly ones?

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my local running store collects them to give to charity I guess. Not sure but I give them to them.

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Salvation Army, GoodWill, running shop, etc etc
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I donate to goodwill. Just had a pair that suddenly started squeaking, after a 45 minute run I had to get rid of them. They are in the goodwill pile

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I usually donate mine, but if they are in really bad shape just end up pitching them.

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Goodwill or the drop off at my local running shop
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I bring them back to my local running store after 500+ miles and tell them that they didn’t work for me and demand a refund.
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dog chew toys!!

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The Nike store has a box for old shoe collection. They take the shoes and grind them up, make all-weather tracks out of the soles, and donate them to needy schools. I save mine up, and when the Wife wants to head out to the outlet mall, I bring the stinkies along for the dropbox.

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I wear them around for yard work and activities where I don’t care if they wrecked since they already are (-:
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my shoes stay on my feet until they can no longer be worn or until they get smelly enought to embarrass me. Then they get trashed.

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Mine have a painful, slow descent from grace.

Brand new race shoes wear and become treadmill / winter shoes. Those become trail running shoes. Once suffiently trashed/stained, they then slide down another step to lawn mowing shoes. Once they are fully green and disgusting, they are thrown out.

I imagine how they feel every step of the way down. I’m sure they’ve seen the process with other shoes before them.
I’m sure my new shoes are concerned when they see their future…

Brad

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I donate them to the needy…or at least I am supposed to donate them. In reality, I have a giant pile in the corner of my garage as if I am preparing for a post-apocalyptic shoe shortage.

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I have had an old pair burned in the backyard by the girlfriend because they smelt so horrible.

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Smelly ones? Not so smelly ones?

Convert them into yard mowing shoes, or take several old pair to Goodwill.

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Demote them to yard work duty (they turn a lovely green when I mow the lawn), then toss them after the next pair “rolls down”.

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We drop them in the bin at the Nike outlet store as well.