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How many kilometres before you call them dead

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  • 06-04-2020 10:20am
    #1
    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭


    How long do you expect to get out of a pair of runners?

    How many KM before your runners are dead 19 votes

    <400km
    0%
    400-500km
    5%
    van_beano 1 vote
    500-600km
    5%
    4Ad 1 vote
    600-700km
    42%
    coLBambaataTheBazmanmossymgriffin100StatlerSbefortS_D 8 votes
    800-900km
    21%
    tunneywoody1Marty BirdMisterJinx 4 votes
    900-1000km
    10%
    68 lost soulsAesop 2 votes
    > 1000km
    15%
    EC1000BTHrodriquez 3 votes


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    EC1000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭EC1000


    > 1000km
    You need an option for "They are dead when they fall apart".


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    Bambaata
    Registered Users Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭Bambaata


    600-700km
    Suppose it depends on the runner too. I typically set an alert at 550/600km mark


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    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,774 ✭✭✭griffin100


    600-700km
    My hips and lower back tell me when to change runners, usually around 500-600kms.


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    pgibbo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,377 Mod ✭✭✭✭pgibbo


    I have some pairs in rotation with 750km and 820km on them. They still feel good to run in. I tend to let how they feel decide when I bin them.

    P.


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    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    griffin100 wrote: »
    My hips and lower back tell me when to change runners, usually around 500-600kms.

    I take it you always run the same surface and the same shoe


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    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    tunney wrote: »
    How long do you expect to get out of a pair of runners?

    Which ones ?


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    tunney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,583 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    800-900km
    peter kern wrote: »
    Which ones ?

    general usage, daily runners, not racers etc etc


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    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,774 ✭✭✭griffin100


    600-700km
    peter kern wrote: »
    I take it you always run the same surface and the same shoe

    Yes, have used Nike Pegasus for the last 11 years (other than one very painful brief use of Mizunos and one deviation to Asics before I came back to Nike) and I do 95% of my running on tar (not concrete).


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    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    tunney wrote: »
    general usage, daily runners, not racers etc etc

    Ok so you don't experience differencess where different foams breaking down later or earlier
    and thinner soles vs thicker soles

    In my case I get huge variations in the miles of my Daily runners.

    I dont like them much but boost is in my mind the longest lasting foam albeit quite heavy and the standard Eva lässt a good bit ,less.


    and even within the same foam my favorite r daaily runnerr the luna tempo last a good bit less than a lunaglide

    Besides rotation likely plays a part in this
    not to mention the surface .


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    Marty Bird
    Registered Users Posts: 1,871 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    800-900km
    Between 600-750 I log all my Kms on all my runners I rotate between 4 pairs over 6 days per week.


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    Kurt_Godel.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭Kurt_Godel.


    Depends on the runners, I have minimal runners from 5 years ago with plenty of distance in them, they are as good as new (laces broke before anything else). Cushioned shoes tend to get about 400/500km before the bin...


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    S_D
    Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭S_D


    600-700km
    MY daily trainer 600k...Racing Nike Vaporflys...200k if lucky!


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    peter kern
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭peter kern


    S_D wrote: »
    MY daily trainer 600k...Racing Nike Vaporflys...200k if lucky!

    This is an interesting one this shoe has a really wide range people run in .from 150 to 1200 k
    I did use nikes 30 day trial and tested them and I could not see why I should not get at least 600 k out of them lielky more like 800for myself but yes for somebody with sub optimal biomechanichs not good . They lose their pop after about 200 but after about 400 they where still superb shoes. . I almost fell down the stairs when I put them on the first time . They are something else


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