I know the most miles you are usually supposed to use a pair of running shoes is about 500. However, sometimes I just forget I need to get new shoes and then end up overusing a pair.
The most I've ever used a pair for was almost 1500 miles in a pair of Mizuno Wave Riders.
I averaged about 90 mpw during study abroad in college, which was ~20 weeks so that’s ~1800 miles on the same pair. I probably used them before and after for a while too so I’d imagine over 2000 miles.
I got 2000 milesish on each of 2 pairs of adizero rockets. That is the shoe that taught me to stockpile shoes I like when they are being discontinued.
I have run over 2000 miles in some shoes. Older adidas torsion (2000 model?) was one pair. Other pairs (older Brooks Cascadia) with polyurethane midsoles also gave me over 1500 miles. I extend the life of outsoles with shoe goo. What eventually killed those shoes were holes in the upper.
I weigh over 160 lbs, run on gravel roads and trails, with many hills which are all hard on shoes.
I put around 1000-1200 miles on two different pairs of the OG Air Max. I was a poor college student and didn't know how long shoes were "supposed" to last.
1500 is when I cut it off each pair. I have done this 5 or 6 times.
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I have run over 2000 miles in some shoes.
This is mind boggling to me. I run on concrete, but I ripped a pair of Hoka's up in less than 150 minutes. Can usually get 300 miles out of nikes (currently that is about 6 months. Best I got was about 600 miles out of a shoe, and that was 10 weeks.
Well over 2000 on a pair of first generation Adidas Energy Boosts. The midsole felt fine, and even the upper was doing okay, but the outsole was mostly worn away and very slick. I got sick of having to be 100% that the streets were going to by dry when I wore them. Those TPU foams basically don't wear out ever. With older, EVA shoes, I'd go maybe 800 miles when I was poorer. Now more like 650.
I'd say like 1500-1700 miles roughly in my Hoka Speedgoats. That's if you only count running shoes - I've had my LOWA boots for over 5 years and those probably have like 2.5k miles of hiking distance
My high mark was over 4,300 miles (in 10 months) on a pair of Converse ABM-400s back in college.
In the mid-'90s did about 3,800 in some adidas Web Techs, I think they were called. More recently, 2,542 miles in adidas Terrex Agravic Flows; 1,801 in Hoka Challenger ATR 6s; 1,507 miles in Hoka Clifton 1s; 1,754, 1,708 and 1,506 in three pairs of Puma Trailfox 4s; six other shoes retired above 1,000 miles in the past decade; and four other shoes still in rotation above 1,000 miles.
Some past threads:
yadoshi 7800 miles in NB 574