How long hold running shoes?|Runner's World

Runner’s-World-EquipMent expert Urs Weber explains how long you can wear your running shoes and when the time has come for a new couple: "With the durability of running shoes, this is one thing: Unfortunately, no general answer is possible here.With long -term tests we found that individual shoes have significant traces of wear after just 170 kilometers, others held over 2.000 kilometers.General recommendations cannot therefore be made, individual influencing factors have too much influence."

Check the shoe for traces of wear

The outsole provides an optical sign of wear.If there are clear abrasion traces of abrasion (mostly on the heel on the outside and under the bale), the shoes must be replaced.Unfortunately, the midsole offers less reliable optical indications.Above all, the plastic foams (Eva, PU), the damping elements (z.B.Gel, air) usually last longer.So you should check the overall impression of the shoe: is the heel cap straight?Is the geometry right, the structure?Or is the shoe "wrong"?

Von diesen Punkten hängt die Haltbarkeit ab

Old shoes can provoke injuries

With increasing wear, running shoes lose their biomechanical properties, elasticity, stability and damping. Dadurch können Laufbeschwerden wie zumBeispiel Shin-Splits (Schmerzen an den Schienbeinen) begünstigt werden.Therefore, it is better to exchange running shoes a little earlier and rely on the (damping) quality of a new shoe.Bei einem langzeit-Test fanden wir heraus, dass es auch erfahrenen Testläufern unmöglich ist, den »schleichenden« Verschleiß der Mittelsohle und der Dämpfungsqualität zu registrieren.That's why we got the same shoe twice in a test, ran a few 500 kilometers and then compared it to the same shoe model that has not yet been used.The difference was amazing, you had the feeling of running a completely different shoe - this also speaks for changing the shoes in a early stage.

How to find the right running shoe

Guidal value: new shoes after 1 at the latest.000 kilometersn

The manufacturers give the lifespan of their higher quality models up to 1.000 kilometersn an. Dem würden wir uns anschließen, natürlich immer unterBerücksichtigung der oben genannten Einschränkungen.In fact, we have had experience with test models in the Runner's World team, which have achieved the 1000-kilometer mark relatively unscathed and without obvious traces of wear;However, the shoes were also from runners with neutral rolling behavior and rather lighter body weight.Incidentally, the wear of car tires offers a clear comparison: a set of tires, for example, holds 40 in normal driving style.000 kilometers, kann er bei sehr zurückhaltender Fahrweise undBelastung auch 60.000 kilometers halten.Bei harterBeanspruchung kann der Reifen aber auch schon nach 20.000 kilometersn hinüber sein.

In general, we advise you to replace running shoes a little earlier.The costs of the new acquisition are always weighed up by increased running comfort and, above all, a lower risk of injury.Bedenken Sie: Ist man als Läufer verletzt, würde man sicher mehr Geld dafür bezahlen, wieder laufen zu können, als ein Paar Laufschuhe wert sind."By the way: a special role in special constructions of competition shoes are occupied.With a super -easy material selection and material reduction for weight savings, it is accepted that the shoes sometimes only hold 200 kilometers.If, of course, a world record jumps out, the effort was worth it.A hobby runner will calculate the investment in these expensive competition models, of course.

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