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Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a single running shoe that worked for every runner? Ask any running expert, though, and they’ll tell you that fit and feel is personal, not universal.
And just like there’s no one pair of shoes that works for every single foot shape, different types of running calls for different types of sneakers. Varying your workouts is key to progressing as a runner, and switching out your running shoes—if you have the budget for that—can help you get the most out of different runs. Plus, alternating running shoes led to a 39 percent lower risk of running injury than running in the same shoes all the time, a 2013 study in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports found.
That means there’s no easy answer (and it will certainly take some trial and error to figure out)—but how often you run, how fast you run, where you run, and what…
