Running

Anyway I'll wait until after the Big Half this weekend - my first half marathon - to start thinking / looking for a new pair.

Yes, don't wear new shoes for a race. (Well, only wear new shoes for a race/run that you'd be happy not to finish if they were giving you pain/discomfort.)

I tend to have 2 or 3 pairs of trainers (of any particular type, i.e. 2 pairs of road shoes, 2 pairs of trail shoes) on the go at any one time. Makes it easier if one pair are still wet from the day before, I also keep a pair of at work in case I want to go for a lunch time run.

I use Strava to keep track of the distances they've done (easier if each pair is a different colour) and only retire them when they're falling apart or there's next to no cushioning left. I'd never retire them just because they'd done x miles. Last ones were retired at ~450 miles but that's because I was doing shuttle runs with my daughter in the garden and ripped the upper away doing a quick turn.

Didn't run in to work this morning. Combination of hangover, being late and the pavements being lethal everywhere and there's no easy offroad option for me.

Hopefully parkrun will be on tomorrow morning although I'll just go for a run if it isn't anyway.

[EDIT] I got a lot more than 450 miles out of one pair though: http://www.greenbank.org/misc/IMG_7290.JPG