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Why don’t you train in them?

They’re expensive and last less time than regular trainers

don't they throw off your gait if you're not used to them at said events?

If you feel like sponsoring them, I'm sure they'll be happy to adopt a "cost is no object" attitude. Otherwise the obvious conclusion is that the training mismatch is less costly than frequently replacing expensive shoes.

Can’t speak for others but as an amateur marathoner, this didn’t happen to me. The biggest thing I noticed wasn’t even that I sped up but that it reduced pain for the next day vs practice marathons I had run in my trainers. If I get richer I’ll switch to using race shoes for all runs for health reasons, not speed ones.

Yeah mostly cost related as others have suggested, I also use more cushioned shoes for training to help reduce fatigue for the back-to-back weeks of long runs.

I thought the same thing about gait but gave it a shot anyway. Didn't throw me off all that much, and I still enjoyed running in the firmer fly's. I did do a few trial short runs before the long run just so I was not going in cold.

To give an idea of shoe wear. I'll easily run through 1 pair in a year if I'm training for a marathon (just to run it). If I'm training to beat PRs then I'll go through almost 2.

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