Most miles in single pair of shoes?

I routinely put more than 1500 miles on a pair in the 70's. No money and 115 lbs. made it easy. With the "improvements" made in shoes nowadays, that isn't possible anymore.

I had two pairs of the Nike Zoom Miler trainers with 1600ish and 1200ish miles on them.

I've taken a few pairs close to, or over 1000 miles. It seems my shoes don't feel broken in until at least a few hundred miles.

Not possible for me to get close to that no matter what shoe I wear. I don't get over 500 miles because they way my feet hit the ground I wear down only a one square inch area right anterior to the arch, on my forefoot. But that one square inch takes tremendous pressure and wear. The rest of the shoe shows no wear at all so it is very frustrating as I feel I am wasting so much money. Any suggestions?

I've easily put a couple thousand each on 2 pair of Puma H Streets that I purchased back in 2006/07, but probably 1/3 of my running is on grass. Will have to retire on of them this year.

roughly 1300 or 1400 on nike lunar trainers last year. usually I have to switch between 500 and 600 miles because the heel counter goes enough to make the achilles problematic.

I put almost 2,100 miles on a pair of Saucony's during my senior year of college in 2002. I ended up getting new ones only because I got plantar fasciitis. Go figure.

I' m about to put 1,072 on my Suacony babies when the winter is done.

So it would seem that runners who don't have an uneven wear pattern (like Forefoot Runner), running shoes can be used without negative effects for over 1000 miles.

For those of you who have worn shoes for 1500+ miles, how did the soles look compared to a new pair?

got over 2000miles on my asics gel nimbus. the upper is pretty badly teared though.

soso wrote:

got over 2000miles on my asics gel nimbus. the upper is pretty badly teared though.

torn.

I don't know how many miles but I have about 70 races on a pair of Saucony racing flats. Mostly 5k but a few 5 mile, 10k, and half marathons.

I put 1605 on a pair once. Being 112lbs at the time sure helped, but the shoes were still beyond trashed by the time I got a new pair. My HS coach told me that he put over 2000 on a pair back in the early 70s, when he was running collegiately.

I used to put at least 600 miles on my trainers and probably 300-350 on racers (100 in races and then reassigned to speed work)

I then realized that all my injuries occurred when I was running in worn out shoes so I started managing the shoe mileage more closely. E.g. today I will not wear shoes with more than 250 miles on them on any run over 6 miles. It has actually worked. The extra expense for shoe replacements is totally worth it.

We have very different experiences with shoes...but I freakin' LOVE your name.

I took mine to 300-400, then recently I went to jut over 550 miles on a pair of shoes. I got a stress fracture shortly afterward.