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Two pairs of Gel Kayanos a year over ten years is a lot of money.
It is if you tot it up and think of it that way, but you need to think of what it provides instead and whether that is good value.
I pay £60-£90 a pair (Saucony Jazz[1] or Peregrine) by buying them in sales or getting last year's models when they're 50% or more off. The Jazz are good for 600km+ so that's roughly 10p/km. The Peregrine trail shoes are probably similar to 10p/km as they seem to last longer (am on 800km in one pair right now).
20km a week running = £2 = fuck loads cheaper than a gym
Would I pay £2 a week to keep myself (relatively) fit and healthy? Of course.
10km run commute = £1 = fuck loads cheaper than train or bus(es)
Cycling might be cheaper per km (for commuting) but for general fitness I need to cycle for a much longer amount of time than I need to running, by my calculations it ends up roughly the same in terms of £ per week on consumables and wear/tear.
- The actual running shoe, not the retro fashion trainer.
- The actual running shoe, not the retro fashion trainer.
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What Hoka trail shoes do you recommend? I need a pair and searched for stability ones on their site but couldn’t find any.
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I'm having the same dilemma with expensive kit. I've run in Gel Kayanos for more than ten years and can never quite bring myself to try something cheaper/different. I'm a 90kg chunk of spunk...there's no way I'd notice a difference in GT2000s but I still can't bring myself to move outside of my comfort zone.
Two pairs of Gel Kayanos a year over ten years is a lot of money.
EDIT: I have recently managed to wean myself from Asics to Hoka for trail shoes though, so maybe there is hope.