The Running Geek

Tracking Shoe Mileage

I finally picked up two new pairs of shoes last night. I got a pair of Saucony Ride 3′s and while I said a couple of posts ago I wasn’t going to get a pair of Saucony Kinvara’s I did. Haven’t run in them yet thought that’ll be tomorrow morning.

I wanted to share something I’m going to start doing to try and track the lifespan of my shoes so I can know how long I’ve been runnning in a pair and know yes it’s time to change and also try to get a timeline for how long a pair is lasting me. I’m liking the idea of having more then one pair in rotation so I think I’ll be buying shoes less often, although still spending the same amount.

Basically what I’m doing is setting up a simple spread sheet to track the runs in each pair of shoes. I have no idea if I’ll be able to stick with this or not, but since I run with a Garmin Forerunner 305 I have a history of my runs that I can draw upon if I miss a few days.

I’ve created a simple sheet that has 3 tabs, one for each pair of shoes I have (Ride 3′s, Kinvara’s and Mirage). For each tab I have a Date, Description and Mileage column. The plan is to update this with the date, description and distance of each run based on the data from my Garmin Connect software once a week or so.

I’ve never really tracked this sort of thing and I know that shoes often aren’t good for as long as I keep em. This should be an interesting experiment.