Shakeout Runs - What shoes do you wear?

I've been wearing Kinvara 5's as a recovery shoe. I like the soft/light feel.

I'm actually looking into getting another pair for easy/recovery days. Going to look at the lunar tempo and the NB Boracay.

I, unfortunately, wear my Pegs or any other shoe I have for that season because I'm a broke college kid.

What is it with Americans and having to complicate things? Wear some shoes and run. I train and race in the same flats. If you want trainers get some trainers for training and some flats for racing or spikes if it's on the track. It's not that complicated.

Answer me this wrote:

What is it with Americans and having to complicate things? Wear some shoes and run. I train and race in the same flats. If you want trainers get some trainers for training and some flats for racing or spikes if it's on the track. It's not that complicated.

As much as I agree with this (I have trainers for training and flats/spikes for racing), I hate it how overgeneralized Americans become on this site. Likewise, I've ONLY seen Americans thought of in a manner like that. Haven't seen one thing about the Brits, Germans, Swedes, Ethiopians, etc.

If people could kindly chill with overgeneralizing Americans, that would be excellent.

Why can't you Europeans just enjoy running for what it is. Sheesh its like every accessory has to be all fashionable and chic.

ImprobableDreamer wrote:

Answer me this wrote:

What is it with Americans and having to complicate things? Wear some shoes and run. I train and race in the same flats. If you want trainers get some trainers for training and some flats for racing or spikes if it's on the track. It's not that complicated.

As much as I agree with this (I have trainers for training and flats/spikes for racing), I hate it how overgeneralized Americans become on this site. Likewise, I've ONLY seen Americans thought of in a manner like that. Haven't seen one thing about the Brits, Germans, Swedes, Ethiopians, etc.

If people could kindly chill with overgeneralizing Americans, that would be excellent.

I'm American, btw.

Americans oversimplify everything... Spending only 1-2 hours training. There are high school kenyan girls on summer break tripling at different types of paces with many drills and strides and all sorts of stuff simpletons don't even think about.

"Second runs" are normal runs. I would wear the same normal shoes.

I do 3 "shakeout" or "recovery" runs a week. I am also running 10 times a week. I do all of my training thus far in the Nike Pegasus 31, it's a great versatile shoe for practically any road training.

Hoka's

overcomplicate? wrote:

Americans oversimplify everything... Spending only 1-2 hours training. There are high school kenyan girls on summer break tripling at different types of paces with many drills and strides and all sorts of stuff simpletons don't even think about.

Overcomplicate? Yes. show up to any race and you'll find a fat guy taking gels and wearing $130 racing flats who has probably run a total of 15 miles that week. Instead of concentrating on the training, he's concentrated on the "best" flat and a fuel belt and three gels for a three mile race. No need to worry about having a million different shoes. The most important thing is to run more and make those runs count. I have one pair of shoes that I wear for everything including track races because spikes do almost nothing unless the track is wet (Daniels did a study about this). I train and race in flats that cost $50.