New Balance..??. Cannot recall the exact model, but they were around $80.00.
Slippers within 4 days
Knee and ankle pain, unprecedented.
After burning them, pains went away.
BTW, the best for me are Sketchers. That's right, Sketchers Energy. Some don't even consider it a real running shoe.
GREAT for frontfoot runner.
9 miles/day NO problems.
Only $45-$50, but I'd buy them for over $100.
The original Nike Air Max, back in the mid-1980s. Absolute bricks. Could not feel the road at all. Threw them away after 2 runs.
Adidas TRX Trainer (1981-ish)
Won them in a race as a kid and they felt like bricks on my feet. Hated Adidas ever since then and now I wear primarily Nike and Brooks shoes for training with the exception of the discontinued New Balance 878 (phenomenal shoe). Nothing but Nike for racing.
Nike Air Stab. What in the world where they thinking about?
Brooks Beast. too heavy, felt like i was wearing bricks on my feet, stopped running in them after bout a month and just wore em around
Right. I gave them away to my friend after about 5 runs.Some friend I am.
Fila's Silva was crap too. Air pocket/bubbles were breakin down before I had 30 miles in em.
Nike air 180
it forget the name of the brand and model. they lasted 3 days of practice durning my sophmore year of hs. when we were doing leg swings, the bottom of the shoe just fell off.
i hate to admit it but i did buy the Nike shox, about 1year after they came out(on sale).
They were heavy as hell and gave me knee problems.
BUT, they were VERY tough, and im cheap, so i wore them for a hell of a long time.
Nike LDV1000- The most destructive shoe ever made, period.
New Balance 900s... horrible horrible knee pain for most of a year
Maybe not the WORST, but the most dissappointing was the Adidas Boston the year they went from a very breathable light upper (now the Boston Classic) to some foam crap that was like a sponge on hot, long days. Ironically, Adidas came out with their Clima Cools that season which was the opposite.
For my first road race, 1976, my Dad took me to the Converse outlet in North Andover, MA and bought me some banana yellow, nylon "running shoes." I wore them the in a 13.1 in NH and wore right through to the sole. Nothing the glue gun couldn't handle.
These trainers Fila made around 1997 called 2-AA or 3-AA, something like that. There was a commercial for them with German Silva running and some Jamaican guy following him on a moped and singing a song about them. That should have clued me.
Nike air zoom miler. why the hell did i pay $95 for them? stupid air bubble. still have tendonitis in my left toe knuckle.
Asics DS Trainer '98 version. Ran in them twice and the sole started to rip off. Liked all the other versions. Maybe I shouldn't have used them on the trails.
Saucony Grid Jazz
Most cheap, flexible shoes work for me. This shoe is really a stability shoe masquerading as a "neutral shoe". The midsole is very rigid and stable, and my feet hurt if I do anything beyond a warmup/cooldown in them.
They are, however, very durable, so I'll keep them around for recovery runs and so forth.
Was the toe caused by the milers? I had the same thing in my left toe when I wore the milers, which popped after 130 miles.
About 6 years ago I had a pair of Nike's that had an upper similar to the Presto, but then otherwise normal lacing. they had some flexible metal piece in the back to conform the shoe around your ankle. The forefoot was very flexible, but the heel-to-forefoot height ratio must have been like 4-1. They felt good when I was trying them on. Knees started to hurt after like 5 miles. Pieces of shit.
Adidas Oregon - stiff as boards, blistered feet
Nike Air Tupu - uppers ripped apart after 10 runs
Brooks, forgot name (circa ~1990) - midsole cut away way too much making for extreme overpronation even with a normal arch, and a hydroflow thing could be felt doing weird squishy things under the heel.
New Balance 666's. Only pair of NB's in my life. Scrapped the insoles and shelled out 20 bucks for a new pair just to get some usage out of the shoe. Those first insoles must have been made by the devil.