My high school age daughter just received a pair of sprint spikes and they came with the spikes already installed and no wrench or obvious way to remove them. I've never seen this before despite having bought at least 20 pairs of spikes over the years. Do these spikes never wear down?
They will wear down eventually, there's no way to replace them. I don't like them but they make the spike lighter so save em for really important meets
Yeah, permanent spikes save weight. Get another pair (with removable spikes) for training.
I would expect the spikes themselves to wear down in a typical season of training and racing on all weather.
I would expect the spike plate to lose significant rigidity in about the same amount of time, so there is kind of no point in removable spikes in shoes like these.
Slightly heavier/cheaper spikes/shoes tend to last longer (thicker spike plate doesn't lose rigidity as quickly), so they may get through two or three sets of removable spikes before they're trash.
So for half the cost, you can have a set of shows that is 10% heavier but lasts 3x as long. As a guess, your time may be .5% slower or so, so figure about .05 seconds over a 100 meter race for an elite male 100m specialist.
For the typical high school athlete, it probably doesn't make sense to shell out for these spikes. But it sounds like she already has them, so she might as well enjoy having them and use them.
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I would expect the spikes themselves to wear down in a typical season of training and racing on all weather.
I would expect the spike plate to lose significant rigidity in about the same amount of time, so there is kind of no point in removable spikes in shoes like these.
Slightly heavier/cheaper spikes/shoes tend to last longer (thicker spike plate doesn't lose rigidity as quickly), so they may get through two or three sets of removable spikes before they're trash.
So for half the cost, you can have a set of shows that is 10% heavier but lasts 3x as long. As a guess, your time may be .5% slower or so, so figure about .05 seconds over a 100 meter race for an elite male 100m specialist.
For the typical high school athlete, it probably doesn't make sense to shell out for these spikes. But it sounds like she already has them, so she might as well enjoy having them and use them.
She picked them out but we got them as a gift from a Nike employee so we don't feel the financial hit. Thanks for the info.
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