Looking at 134,867 reviews of running shoes the review aggregator RunRepeat.com concludes that cheap running shoes get better reviews than expensive ones.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, DENMARK, September 30, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ -- RunRepeat.com has compiled 134,867 reviews of running shoes from recreational runners. The reviews are split among 391 different running shoes from 24 brands and reveals the surprising truth that runners rate cheap running shoes higher than expensive running shoes.

This study is the first ever done to conduct such conclusion and it has created a lot of discussions in the running environment, with many different opinions about the results.

“We did not do this compilation of reviews to promote any specific brands, but to enlighten the every day runners that expensive running shoes are not always the best option.”

The many reviews also revealed the best rated brand to be Skechers followed by Saucony. The worst rated brand became Reebok and next worst Adidas.

Further the study concluded that running specialists brand perform 2.8% better than non-specialist brands.
Finally the most expensive brand was Hoka One One followed by Newton. The cheapest brands were Skechers followed by Vivobarefoot.

All graphics, comments and results is available at: http://runrepeat.com/expensive-running-shoes-are-not-better-than-more-affordable-running-shoes-study.

The site RunRepeat.com is an aggregator of running shoes. The reviews are driven by the community of runners. The site is ad free and cost free. Jens Jakob Andersen, who is also the founder of RunRepeat.com, conducted the compilation of reviews. In his previous career, he was a teacher in statistics at Copenhagen Business School.

Jens Jakob Andersen
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