Anyone retire their shoes at 200 miles and get a fresh pair?

During marathon training, I replace my shoes every 3 or 4 weeks or so, which tends to be between 225-300 miles.

I am a small guy - 5' 8", 145 lbs. - but I am a heavy pronator and I destroy the outsole on the outside edge just off of the heel, and I am an over-strider, so I probably come down harder than my size would indicate, thus also wearing down the midsole sooner than would be expected.

I don't love dropping $120 on a new pair of Adidas Sequence trainers every month, but I do like running and I do love racing competitively, and, ultimately, I can afford it; so I splurge a little to ensure continued health. A small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.

theygoforever wrote:

D2 runner here running 90-100 miles every week senior year with only one pair a semester from the coach. Those babies each got a minimum of 1000 miles out of them. If I couldn't get at least 1000+ out of pair I deemed that particular brand as junk. Brooks held up the mileage pretty well.

Same except my coach doesn't give us shoes. I wait until my adidas boost supernovas fall apart - either when I run through the soles or the plate connecting the heel to the forefoot comes out.

I'm 220 lbs i run in a few different shoes:

Hoka Bondi B 4 - at the least 400m. The last pair I had went 500m and they had definitely lost it at the end

Nike Wild Horse 3 - at 260m currently and they are just about dead. Will get them to 300m but they are dead.

Nike Zoom Streak 6 - Just got these - 3m on them. Can't imagine I'll get more than 300m out of them but I only plan on racing in them for the most part so they won't be a frequent purchase.

I have been wearing Mizuno Wave Sayonara 3 .. just a lighter neutral cushioned shoe that I get for 55$ on amazon. They hold up really well to about 500 miles. I am 6ft 155 pronate pretty good but the tread stays great.

I have to get new Nike Zoom Elite 8s about ever two months because my heel is very narrow for a guy and as the shoe wears, it loses tightness in the heel, but they're about perfect when brand new. I feel like there ought to be a better solution but have not found one yet.

This seems pretty simple to me. It's a function of what are your priorities vs what are your means. If you have ample disposable income, and you enjoy racing, then buy new shoes after 300 miles to give yourself the best chance of staying healthy. If you're scraping together your rent check every month, and there are bigger priorities in life than running, then run on your shoes until they're falling apart. If you're somewhere in between, adjust accordingly.

it's also a function of surfaces (300 miles of 'crete != 300 miles of trails) and what wears out (sole, cushion, upper).

my asics seem to be able to last forever if only the heel collar/cup wouldn't wear through. my pegasus are always in great shape at 300 miles, but have midsoles that seem to turn to stone around then.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM wrote:

I'm 220 lbs i run in a few different shoes:

Hoka Bondi B 4 - at the least 400m. The last pair I had went 500m and they had definitely lost it at the end

Nike Wild Horse 3 - at 260m currently and they are just about dead. Will get them to 300m but they are dead.

Nike Zoom Streak 6 - Just got these - 3m on them. Can't imagine I'll get more than 300m out of them but I only plan on racing in them for the most part so they won't be a frequent purchase.

M is short for meters. Mi is miles. But I wouldn't be surprised if you were quitting on shoes after a quarter mile or less.

I have gotten 800 miles out of my last 2 pairs of shoes. My current pair is at about 500 miles.

not ferris bueller wrote:

Anyone? I know you can milk them, but after 200 miles, they feel flat.

I LOVE threads like these.

Laugh at my VFF toe shoes and other minimalistic 'barefoot' shoes all you want, I don't care, but it's so great to not have to worry about all this stuff.

My shoes get replaced when they fall apart, not any sooner. I have many of my shoes for years, still going strong.

But hey, keep the economy strong guys! ;-)

Agree with Swaz, I get 750-1000 miles from New Balances (860 at moment). They hold up well. Doing that for 15+ years, 40-50 MPW.

not ferris bueller wrote:

Anyone? I know you can milk them, but after 200 miles, they feel flat.

That's pretty low milage, I ran in a pair of sketchers from September 2015 to October 2016 put well over 3000 miles on them.

sredlums wrote:

But hey, keep the economy strong guys! ;-)

Maybe you were joking, but that is a classic example of the 'broken window fallacy'.

Personally I wear my shoes for between 500 - 1200 miles, it really depends on the shoe and how long it lasts. 750 is probably about the median for me. I get a little over half my shoes from winning races, and find deals online for the rest, so I end up paying about a dollar for every 25 miles or so that I run, which is a pretty good deal. The food costs are a little more significant, but I try to make up for it by eating a lot of cheap rice and beans.

I have somewhere around 1400-1500 miles on my current pair. I wear them until the upper falls apart. Right now the majority of the upper is detached on the outside of each foot on each shoe. I run in xc flats on the roads usually. I was on the trails for a while but now I'm just gonna run on the treadmill all winter. My shoes are falling apart but now I wanna run in them until they are completely unusable. I would normally change them at about 1200 miles. They feel very worn in and good after about 500 miles. There's no sole on the shoe and no support or cushioning to wear out so you really can just wear them until they are completely destroyed. I also love that my shoes are $55 full price and I get them on sale for $35 I think.

mileage_man wrote:

sredlums wrote:

But hey, keep the economy strong guys! ;-)

Maybe you were joking, but that is a classic example of the 'broken window fallacy'.

Personally I wear my shoes for between 500 - 1200 miles, it really depends on the shoe and how long it lasts. 750 is probably about the median for me. I get a little over half my shoes from winning races, and find deals online for the rest, so I end up paying about a dollar for every 25 miles or so that I run, which is a pretty good deal. The food costs are a little more significant, but I try to make up for it by eating a lot of cheap rice and beans.

Dont forget potatoes ... super cheap and a ton of good nutrition for a runner

Bought 3 New Balance MR00s at the outlet for $40 each around 4 years ago. I'm on my second pair - I must have over 3k miles on this thing at least. Very sad they don't make these (or the MRC5000s before I got to buy one) anymore.

not ferris bueller wrote:

Anyone? I know you can milk them, but after 200 miles, they feel flat.

I'm filthy rich. I put on a new pair of shoes every day when I wake up in the morning and at the end of the day I toss them into the trash can along with all my other clothes I'm wearing.

The only miles I get on my shoes are from walking to my front door out to my 1988 Lamborghini Countach and then a few hundred yards to the steps of my companies head office in Florida and I put the same mileage on my shoes on the way home. Other than that, I sometimes walk into the McDonalds washroom to take a dump

Living Life wrote:

not ferris bueller wrote:

Anyone? I know you can milk them, but after 200 miles, they feel flat.

I'm filthy rich. I put on a new pair of shoes every day when I wake up in the morning and at the end of the day I toss them into the trash can along with all my other clothes I'm wearing.

The only miles I get on my shoes are from walking to my front door out to my 1988 Lamborghini Countach and then a few hundred yards to the steps of my companies head office in Florida and I put the same mileage on my shoes on the way home. Other than that, I sometimes walk into the McDonalds washroom to take a dump

Why don't you give your shoes to the needy at the end of the day? What a waste of footwear!

I literally run in a pair until they have holes in the bottom. Anywhere from 1500-2000 miles.

Working in a running store, I tell customers that it is really a matter of how dependent a person is on the structure of the shoe.

Overweight and out-a-shape guy who pronates like a Mo-Fo is going to feel it sooner than, well, pretty much anyone else once the shoe starts breaking down.

The lighter the shoe, the sooner it breaks down but 200 miles is little for most.