I am just wondering how many miles a pair of Frees can withstand before they become dangerous to wear.
I have a pair at about 200 miles right now and am not sure if they should soon be retired. I usually retire my other shoes at 600 miles, but since these are minimal, I figure maybe they have a shorter life?
Anyone with knowledge on this?
go by feel is the best advice anyone can give you, i thinki have a pair of nike free trails (my favorite shoe ever - and i cannot find the damn things anymore) with i'd say 800 miles on them... and I still absolutely love themmost minimalist will say, there is not much shoe there anyway so why should you care how many miles they have on them, you'll get some guys on here who will tell you that they wear the puma h streets until there are holes in the bottom of the solebut if they don't feel right anymore to you then move on
Shoe Retirement? wrote:
I am just wondering how many miles a pair of Frees can withstand before they become dangerous to wear.
I have a pair at about 200 miles right now and am not sure if they should soon be retired. I usually retire my other shoes at 600 miles, but since these are minimal, I figure maybe they have a shorter life?
Anyone with knowledge on this?
1, 1 mile. Even the instruction manual says to use the shoes for drills on a grass field. Why would you risk serious injury running with those?
Why would they become dangerous? They are a minimal shoe and are not really prone to the midsole breakdown of a typical trainer. I say run in them until they fall apart.
I rain in a pair a couple of years ago until the spandex heel-cup ripped out. They probably had close to 1000 miles on them and were otherwise still good.
I haven't run in anything else for 3 years. I always get 1000 plus miles out of a pair and never notice any loss of cushioning. I only change them when they fall apart. Best shoe ever invented, and I've had a fair few pairs of trainers in the last 35 years of running!
I have a love hate relationship with frees, i love how they feel and they wear fantastically well, apparently scientific studies show that the mre flexible the shoe the longer they will last as the foot is allowed to move naturally and at it's most efficient. However I have found that i have sometimes ended up with plantar and even numb toes after long runs in frees, it tended to happen out of the blue after months of wearing them, not sure if this was a sign of midsole collapse. On ething I would say, the mark 1 was excellent, the 2 and 3 stink, too soft and the heel is narrower making it unstable.