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What are people's thoughts on retiring shoes after certain distances?
I retire mine by feel, not just at a certain distance.
I generally have 3 pairs of each shoe on the go at any one time. Right now for my non-trail shoe (Saucony Jazz 18, 19 and 21) they've got 160km, 500km and 720km on them.
By using them in rotation it gives them a chance to dry out (from sweat or rain), plus I feel the difference between them easily. The 720km pair are almost done as I'm starting to feel the difference between them and the other two pairs. I'll start looking for a new pair in any sales.
The other reason I retire them is if the tread starts to go.
Greenbank
What are people's thoughts on retiring shoes after certain distances? I've just been told by Strava that my Nike Air Structure have done 700km (which was a surprise). I've never been enamoured massively with this shoe and to be honest it looks pretty good still, everything still in good nick. But I wonder how much cushion is left in the midsole. I am a fairly light guy, a shade under 70kg.
I guess you could say I am an 'overpronator' so generally stick to stability shoes, I have just ordered a pair of Arahi 5 from Hoka. They do a 30 day 'trial' where you can return if you don't get on with them. I listened to a podcast yesterday on the topic of pronation, discussing how to certain extent 'over' pronation is a bit of a myth, or at least misunderstood by most. But given that my running is going okay at the moment and I've had some niggling injuries from the past that still linger, I'm inclined to err on the side of caution.
The colours of these Arahi are really poor though. I have heard lots of good things about the Clifton and am tempted by the Clifton Edge (heel striker here) just on the basis of some of these CW's ... https://www.hokaoneone.eu/en/gb/men-road/clifton-edge/1110510.html?dwvar_1110510_color=NCLR