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Ken Rideout

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

As soon as you start to see the rubber wearing, you chuck them.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

So probably like...

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Training shoes, there's a difference between training and racing.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Racing shoes are very like a little more delicate.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

They have like not a lot of rubber on the bottom.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

They're super lightweight, especially the high-end like Nike, like Alpha Fly or Vapor Fly, the racing shoes that those shoes will only last about 300 miles.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

So like when I'm training for a marathon, three weeks, gone.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Reebok made a pair of shoes for 500.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Adidas made a pair of shoes for $500 that you could only wear once.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Because they don't have a lot of rubber on the bottom, so they're super, super lightweight, and they just wear out fast.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

The foam gets compressed, the rubber wears off, and they're only made to run fast once.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Yeah.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

I think that there's a school of thought that says like that extra cushioning is good for you.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

There's other people like Gabby Reese would be like a big barefoot person and be like, no, that's too much.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

It gives you false sense of security.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

I think like this, it's like people ask me, what shoes do you wear?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

And I was like, that's like asking the guy who won the Daytona 500, like what kind of tires do you have on your car?

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

I need some for my Camry.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

I'm like,

Habits and Hustle
Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength

Or I need tires for my pickup truck.