Been floating around this weight lately and found that I'm burning through the trainers I used to wear in high school/college when I was 150 soaking wet. So, I'm reaching out to other big dogs and asking what the best shoes are? Looking for recs for daily trainers and a tempo shoe if you gottem. Thank you dawgs!
For the dawgs wrote:
Been floating around this weight lately and found that I'm burning through the trainers I used to wear in high school/college when I was 150 soaking wet. So, I'm reaching out to other big dogs and asking what the best shoes are? Looking for recs for daily trainers and a tempo shoe if you gottem. Thank you dawgs!
I'm about 200 pounds and can put 350-400 miles onto the asics gel nimbus before they wear out. Size 14 feet, if relevant
Saucony Triumphs work great for me. They're on the 21s now and can pick up a pair of the 20s for $70 to $80. Great shoes.
Altra Via Olympus
Nimbus, Clifton 9, Triumph, NB Supercomp v3 (tempos), NB LDX (Spikes), Dragonfly (Steeple). 190lbs
They make shoes for 180 lbs dogs?
I am not sure if your "trolling" or not...but a lot more questions at hand...
How tall are you?
What's your pace?
Do you like neutral trainers? Are you a heal striker...etc
However, I would say if you want shoes to eat up junk miles, I really like the Vomero 17, a lot of love/hate on invincible 3s, NB 1080s....
This is off topic, but I really feel like shoe technology has increased, but quality has decreased...if you are 180+, you may just need to switch shoes out every 250-300 miles.
I bounce between 175 and 190 and have just accepted that I wear out shoes by 250 miles and I’m fine with it. Whatever is up with my gait, the foam doesn’t compress and wear out evenly over time and that leads to an increasingly inward tilt/roll that causes problems.
The Novablast really only lasted 150 miles for me. An early version of the Mach only made it 100. The speed 2 lasted 300 and probably could have gone longer. The last version of the Nimbus was a pretty good shoe me.
I suspect the plate in the speed 2 stopped the problem that normally happens in my shoes and the nimbus has just enough stability to stop the pronation.
I just stick with 2100 series. I once tried an Adrenaline and it sucked.
Get two pairs, alternate. I have run on the same pair every day for a month straight (think 280 - 320 miles), gotten a new pair, ran in those, then put on the old pair and was surprised that there seemed to be life in them.
run4tacos wrote:
I am not sure if your "trolling" or not...but a lot more questions at hand...
How tall are you?
What's your pace?
Do you like neutral trainers? Are you a heal striker...etc
However, I would say if you want shoes to eat up junk miles, I really like the Vomero 17, a lot of love/hate on invincible 3s, NB 1080s....
This is off topic, but I really feel like shoe technology has increased, but quality has decreased...if you are 180+, you may just need to switch shoes out every 250-300 miles.
Not a troll and also not fast. I'm 5'11" and most easy runs are me puttering around 8-9 minute pace. Used to be a heavy forefoot striker but now I probably drift more towards midfoot and some heel because I get lazy. Generally go with neutral trainers and have liked Vomeros recently after the Pegasus just weren't doing it for me anymore.
I agree that the quality is way down from what I remember because I used to get two pairs of trainers a year, usually just two pairs of Pegasus and I'd get like 500+ miles easy. Again, I was leaner and meaner back then but I'm finding like you that now 250-300 miles seems to be when shoes die out.