Relationship between individual differences in runners' running shoe preferences and biomechanical characteristics

Abstract

It has been reported that comfort is an important factor in evaluating running shoes (Hoerzer et al., 2015). It has also been pointed out that there may be a relationship between runners’ running shoe preferences and running injuries (Nigg et al., 2015). However, the mechanism by which runners perceive comfort is still incompletely understood because comfort is a very abstract feeling. It is important to clarify the relationship between runners’ shoe preferences and biomechanical characteristics after accurately evaluating human running preferences.