When I was doing two a days in college and running around 60-70 miles a week I usually had three pair. One pair for the morning run and the other two for the afternoon that I would rotate. It worked for me. YMMV
When I was doing two a days in college and running around 60-70 miles a week I usually had three pair. One pair for the morning run and the other two for the afternoon that I would rotate. It worked for me. YMMV
you only need 3 to 4 pairs in my opinion. 2 easy running shoes, a pair of flats/carbon plated shoes and spikes if you are a track runner. personally I prefer to have a shoe for everything (easy run, long run, warm up, road racing/intervals shoe, extra pair for running in mud, track spike, xc spike)
N+1 - with N being the number of shoes you have today.
If you're married it's N-1 with N being the number of shoes that leads to a divorce.
I think what you have is fine.
I really don't think you need a specific long run shoe. If it's an easy long run - easy shoes, if it's a long tempo - tempo shoe.
Drivers Wanted wrote:
You're a walking/running Nike commercial. Just like every high school runner. You won't run clockwise around a track. You also won't run a race longer than 5k nor an event not sanctioned or recognized by your State high school athletic association. You are a follower.
Wake up. Have original thoughts. If you order a float in an ice cream parlor, decide for yourself your soda and ice cream flavor. Getting root beer and vanilla will just prove my point. I realize everyone on your team wears Nike as does everyone in every race you've entered.
Volkswagon used to have a commercial for the Jetta. "On the road of life there are drivers and passengers," the narrator points out. Stop being a passenger. Be a driver.
Yours may be the least self-aware post on this message board, and that's saying a lot. In your first sentence, you call him a walking Nike commercial, then you finish with...a slogan from a car commercial. So much for having an original thought, huh? (Also VWs are trash cars, but I digress.)
OP, generally 2 pairs of shoes in rotation, with a third being used for races or hard efforts.