About this site

Running shoe content online is almost entirely commercial. Rankings exist because "best running shoes of the year" ranks well in search and converts to affiliate revenue, and the specification tables that make those articles look authoritative are usually copied from somewhere else.

What we publish instead

Guidance on how to choose, which is the part that transfers between years and brands. Fit, when to replace, what the specs mean, and what the pronation advice actually rests on. None of this rots, so it can be written properly once.

Alongside that, descriptions of long-running model lines and what each is for. Lines rather than versions, deliberately — manufacturers revise these annually, sometimes substantially, so a page about a specific version describes a shoe you can no longer buy within a year.

What we deliberately leave out

Prices. They differ by country, retailer and week. There is no source we could take them from honestly, and a wrong price is worse than none.

Specifications. Weight, drop and stack height change between versions. We publish a figure only where it has been checked against a named source with a date, and at present none have been, so none are shown.

Rankings. The best shoe is the one that fits your foot. An article cannot know that, and pretending otherwise is the central dishonesty of the genre.

Why we link to brand homepages

Product catalogue URLs change frequently, and every major footwear brand blocks automated requests, so we cannot verify a deep link still works before publishing it. Rather than ship links that might be dead, model pages link to the brand's root domain, which is unambiguous and stable.

No commercial relationships

No affiliate links, no sponsored placements, and no brand pays to appear here. The lines described were chosen as recognisable examples of their categories, not as endorsements over their competitors.