We really want your shoe reviews and are giving away 10 pairs of shoes to prove it.

Doesn't accept a range or anything other than numerical value. (e.g 40-50 or 45mpw). Also on range....when asking how many shoe per year if you give a rnge will not accept (e.g.10-12) Also does not recognize $. (e.g.$120) You should not have to fill out the entire form again just to figure out what is wrong with your submission!

Thanks for the bug report. The validator treated a zero as if it were null/empty string. Fixed.

Your concerns about the small cell size problem is noted. There's no real way around this other than for people to experiment and find what works for them.

Perhaps at some point when we have a richer overall data set, we could do something like building a linear model where we regress a vector of runner characteristics on rating for each shoe and give people per-shoe predicted "ratings" based upon their own specific values. Or a similar model-based approach. That solves the small cell-size problem, but also makes the results harder to interpret. We played with that a little on the last one and found that we seemed to get more out of just playing with cross-tabs. But it's in the back of our mind.

As for shoe specs, we have a lot of that data now and we will be adding it to our soon-to-be-released shoe finder.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment.

1. That's the idea. We'll be able to use user submissions to be able to build up a better list.

2. We have some duplicate shoes now because of how we scrape data/add shoes. We have a tool that merges all data associated with either shoe into one (I just ran it for the Hoka shoe you mentioned) shoe and puts in measures to prevent future duplication. We're building a reporting system for internal use that will help us stay on top of that. (We need to check everyday basically!)

3. We'll probably try to trim down questions that don't provide much information that is useful. This is probably one of them!

3a. We ask age so we can add a filter for that.

Ray wrote:

Doesn't accept a range or anything other than numerical value. (e.g 40-50 or 45mpw). Also on range....when asking how many shoe per year if you give a rnge will not accept (e.g.10-12) Also does not recognize $. (e.g.$120) You should not have to fill out the entire form again just to figure out what is wrong with your submission!

We'll add language to say "average miles per week" "average shoes per year." It's easier to get the average number as an integer and then bin them into ranges than try to do the reverse. (and also makes certain analytical things we may want to do with the data later more straightforward)

I can make it filter out the dollar sign to avoid that error.

Thank you!

Tried to review a Brooks Ghost ten, but kept getting an error on the section when I stated my last running shoe which was a Ghost 9. Wouldn't let me submit.

Sick to death of doing a review and then it not saving. Just how hard is it to achieve?! Get a grip IT person. You'd be on your arse if you were in my employ.

Pukey wrote:

Sick to death of doing a review and then it not saving. Just how hard is it to achieve?! Get a grip IT person. You'd be on your arse if you were in my employ.

What do you mean it's not saving? It should save or tell you what the error message is. Please email me

and we'll try and figure this out.

Whatever you do just don't buy the New Balance Vongos, they've ruined me.

Anyone ever weighed the Adidas Ultraboost St? My gosh they are 345 grams (over 12 oz)! But they do feel friggin unbelievable.

I tend to buy last year's shoe models, so my reviews wouldn't be much use. I just bought the NB Zante v3, but I don't have enough time in them yet to write a review. Plus, they're last year's model.

fisky wrote:

I tend to buy last year's shoe models, so my reviews wouldn't be much use. I just bought the NB Zante v3, but I don't have enough time in them yet to write a review. Plus, they're last year's model.

Fisky, HNY, the Zante v3 is more or less similar to the v1, they are reasonably good, even as a slip on. (I'm always 1-2 year's models behind as well).

fisky wrote:

I tend to buy last year's shoe models, so my reviews wouldn't be much use. I just bought the NB Zante v3, but I don't have enough time in them yet to write a review. Plus, they're last year's model.

Last year's models would be helpful as long as they can be bought somewhere people may be looking at them.

Hey there, I did a review of the Hagio 2 as an anonymous guy. The 6:00 mile pace that I typed is an average between long runs and the workouts that I run per week.

Generally I run around 6:40 for the easy mileage but I run anywhere from 4:10 to 5:20 on my workouts just to clarify. I figured 6:00 is a pretty good guess. Also the 4 pairs that I mentioned (Hagio, Hagio 2, Adios Boost 2 and Nike Free run 2) rotate between themselves, they weren't ditched (but the last 2 probably will soon).

Do you get a confirmation when a review has been submitted successfully?

I've either not submitted or submitted multiple times, I'm not getting a confirmation, notification of a mandatory field that needs to be completed or that I've already submitted.

I don't wear Nike so I can't honestly contribute to a Nike shoe review site.

SpikePlate wrote:

Do you get a confirmation when a review has been submitted successfully?

I've either not submitted or submitted multiple times, I'm not getting a confirmation, notification of a mandatory field that needs to be completed or that I've already submitted.

It should tell you the error or show you submitted successfully. Could you tell me which shoe you reviewed and what other fields you filled out.

Did anything change when you hit submit? Button gray out? Scrolling up to top?

I wrote a review this morning, but can't seem to find it on any of the forums?

Useful initiative!

Tried to review the ON Cloudventure (not listed, typed it in). At the end I got the error message of “9 errors in your submission, click here to go to your first error.” I clicked it, it took me back to the top, and I saw that the star ratings I’d submitted on comfort, durability, etc. were highlighted in red. What? Then I saw that my review title and the review itself had been wiped clean. I hadn’t clicked “select all” and “copy” for what I’d typed I in the review box and I wasn’t going to retype everything again.

I seem to recall having the same issue with trying a Salomon review last year. I’m not review-submitting challenged as a rule but I see only one other person having posted here about the review “not saving.”