Podium runner names it's top 21 shoes of 2020. Guess how many cost les than $100 and guess show many of them are Nike?

Seems like a pretty crappy list

Best shoe for various purposes is so subjective that such lists are useless, especially if they don't list a few of the shoes just below the winner. A ranked top five in each category would be much more informative, particularly for those who know that some brands work for their fit, tempo and stride and some brands don't.

And I still think it is an inexpensive sport. So you buy a $150 pair of shoes. you can run in cheap clothes and layer for almost any weather. Compare that to equipment for gym, tennis, cycling or most anything else, and running wins the economy sweepstakes.

Average hobby jogging runner is going to go through 3-4 pairs of shoes a year, max. It’s easy to find last years models at a discount.

Add a few (increasingly exorbitant) race fees and you’re at a few hundred bucks to run for a year. That’s like the price of one ski.

non-fatty wrote:

Average hobby jogging runner is going to go through 3-4 pairs of shoes a year, max. It’s easy to find last years models at a discount.

Add a few (increasingly exorbitant) race fees and you’re at a few hundred bucks to run for a year. That’s like the price of one ski.

Yes. Some of us spend more because we can, and it is a priority for us. But I could buy cheaper shoes (I also have scored some prior year close outs at very good prices in the past five years), wear the soccer shorts/training pants and tops my kids abandoned when the left for college and be just fine. I don't even pay race fees more than once a year now that I'm old. I just love the feeling of running.

I would miss my Air Zoom Tempo Next% fix, to be sure. But I would survive.

Simple answer to that: they couldn't sell ad space to Nike. And: few of the brands sent them anything priced <$120 to review. Maybe because those lower priced models are sold almost exclusively online, at brand/outlet stores, and in big box stores and not in run speciality. I like the site's content and writers, yet even Metzler himself said it in his book "Kicksology" that shoe reviews like this (or in Runners World) are basically useless for anyone trying to figure out what shoe to buy. Just reading the blurbs of each shoe, you don't really learn much beyond the shoe's good points. Expansive, multi-tester reviews like on Believe In The Run and Road Trail Run are far more informative and still free for anyone to look up and read. Plus the numerous Youtube shoe reviewers. I don't know why these dinosaurs still bother trying to do something half-assedly that others have perfected, except that they get free shoes out of the deal.

They probably only review shoes that the manufacturers provide to them at no charge

Nike and others likely never gave them any shoes to review, either because they did not have connections with Nike or Nike did not believe it was worth it.

Like numerous other shoe review types, all their reviews lean toward positive vanilla. They probably do not want to say anything bad about a shoe as this may hinder the flow of free new shoes in the future.

I just buy last years model at a usually significantly reduced rate.

As to the poster who said use RoadTrailRun or Believe in the Run for their reviews, I agree 100%.

I've purchased both shoes and apparel based on their multi-tester review model. I also love the fact that if you ask a question in the comments, they will actually give you a well thought out reply.

D@mn them shoes are expensive! I ain't paying no $200 for a pair of running shoes. Now way, not happening.

I used to wear a lot of Nike and Saucony shoes back in the day. Now that I live pretty close to the Brooks Outlet store I tend to wear that brand almost exclusively. I just wait for their twice a year truckload shoe sale and buy 2-3 pair then. Never pay more than $60. This being the year of Covid-19 in 2020 it hasn't happened for awhile.

Shoebacca and Zoots

You don't realize that Chase and Meltzer are the old guard. These guys are over 50 year old self-employed and no longer run and/or are competitive and have lost touch with the run community.

There is a reason they team up to put out garbage... trying to wrangle up some contracts and earn a living.

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