When do I get new shoes?

Now that the cold, cold days of winter are subsiding and we're being treated to warmer weather on the East Coast, people are starting to ramp up their miles again.

In the last couple weeks, I've now had a couple conversations with friends about when do you get new shoes. How many miles should you put on them? When will I know when it's time?

  As a general rule of thumb, you should put somewhere between 300-500 miles on a pair of shoes. Depending on hard your miles are; if your soles start getting worn -- its time to change them. But how do you remember when you started using them?

I find an easy reminder to be simply writing the date I started using the shoes on the heel. You'll need to track the total miles using your paper or online logs. And if you're rotating shoes - you'll need to remember to note which shoes you used in your training logs.

But writing the date on your shoe is a good way to have a more definitive way to track and remember so that you keep your shoes fresh and your legs healthy!