Running shoes don't last forever. GoAnd.Run tracks the distance on each pair so you know when they're due for replacement. Add your shoes, assign them to runs, set a distance warning, and the app handles the rest: totalling up kilometres automatically and alerting you when a pair is wearing out.
You'll find your gear collection under the Gear page, accessible from your profile menu.
Head to Gear and click Add Shoe to register a new pair.
The manufacturer: Nike, ASICS, Hoka, Brooks, and so on.
The specific model name, for example Pegasus 41, Gel-Nimbus 26, or Clifton 9.
Helps you tell pairs apart when you have multiple shoes of the same model.
Tick this if the shoe has a carbon fibre plate. See the section below for why this matters.
If the shoe already has kilometres on it before you start tracking in GoAnd.Run, enter the estimated distance here. It's added to the tracked total.
The distance in kilometres at which you'd like to be reminded to replace the shoe. Leave blank if you don't want a warning.
Carbon-plated racing shoes (the Vaporfly, Alphafly, Adios Pro, MetaSpeed Sky, and their many relatives) have transformed road racing since 2017. They offer measurable performance gains, but they come with trade-offs that matter for training.
A plated shoe embeds a rigid carbon fibre plate between layers of highly responsive foam. The plate acts as a lever, returning energy on toe-off that the foam alone would absorb. Combined with a rocker geometry, this design reduces the muscular cost of running at a given pace. Studies consistently show a 2–4% improvement in running economy.
Plated shoes typically last 250–400 km before the foam loses its responsiveness. Non-plated daily trainers usually last 600–800 km. Tracking distance separately for each type helps you replace them at the right time.
Running all your training in plated shoes can make your pace look faster than your fitness actually is. When you compare runs or track progress, knowing which shoe you wore gives context to the numbers.
The rigid plate reduces the work done by your foot and calf muscles. Training exclusively in plated shoes may reduce the natural strengthening that comes from running in conventional footwear, potentially increasing injury risk over time.
Saving plated shoes for races and key workouts means you get the performance benefit when it matters most, while also preserving the shoe's limited lifespan for the sessions where speed counts.
Races, time trials, race-pace workouts, and key interval sessions where you want maximum performance.
Easy runs, long runs, recovery runs, and general training. This builds strength, saves the plated pair, and gives you honest training data.
Once you've added a shoe, you can assign it to any running activity. The shoe picker appears on the detail page of every run and trail run.
Navigate to any run or trail run from your Activities list.
Look for the Shoe card on the activity detail page. It shows a dropdown of all your active shoes.
Choose the shoe you wore for this run and click Save. The activity's distance is immediately added to that shoe's total. You can change or clear the selection at any time.
Retired shoes are hidden from the picker. If you need to assign a retired shoe, reactivate it first from the Gear page.
The shoe picker only appears on running activities. Rides, walks, swims, and other activity types don't show the shoe selector.
Every time you assign a shoe to a run, that run's distance is counted towards the shoe's total. The calculation is fully automatic and you don't need to enter distances manually.
Total Distance = Starting Distance + Sum of All Assigned Run Distances
If you set a starting distance when adding the shoe (for pre-existing mileage), that's included in the total. The rest comes from the actual GPS-recorded distances of every run you've assigned to that shoe.
The combined distance in kilometres across all assigned runs, plus any starting offset.
How many runs have been assigned to this shoe.
The pre-tracking distance you entered when adding the shoe, if any.
A paginated list of every run assigned to the shoe, showing name, date, distance, duration, and pace.
Set a distance threshold and GoAnd.Run will warn you when a shoe is due for replacement. Running in worn-out shoes increases injury risk because the cushioning and support degrade long before the outsole looks worn.
When adding or editing a shoe, enter a distance in kilometres in the Warning Threshold field.
The shoe detail page shows a colour-coded progress bar. It starts green, turns yellow as you approach the threshold, and turns amber when you've exceeded it.
Shoes that have exceeded their threshold show a Replace soon warning directly on the gear list, so you can spot it at a glance without opening each shoe.
600–800 km. Most non-plated running shoes last comfortably to 600 km, with some lasting to 800 km depending on your weight, gait, and the surfaces you run on.
250–400 km. The super-foam in plated shoes breaks down faster. Once the foam flattens, the plate can actually increase stress on your legs rather than reduce it.
500–700 km. Terrain matters: technical rocky trails wear outsoles faster, but the cushioning may last longer than on hard roads.
400–600 km. Shoes built for speed sessions with less cushioning tend to wear out faster than heavier daily trainers.
When a shoe has reached the end of its life, you can retire it rather than deleting it. Retiring preserves the shoe's history; all past activity assignments and distance data remain intact.
Open the shoe from your Gear list and click Retire this shoe at the bottom of the edit page. You can also use the retire button directly from the gear list.
Retired shoes show a grey status badge and are hidden from the shoe picker on activity pages. They remain visible in your gear list for reference.
Changed your mind? Click Activate this shoe to bring it back into rotation. It will reappear in the shoe picker immediately.
Deleting a shoe removes it permanently and clears the shoe assignment from all linked activities. Retiring keeps everything, so prefer retiring unless you added the shoe by mistake.
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