Snap a photo of the bottom of your running shoes. We'll give you the rundown on your wear pattern, your stride, and what your shoes have probably been telling you all along — hedged with actual research.
Both shoes, soles up, toes pointing toward the top. Decent light. We'll guide you through the framing.
A quick check: are these actually shoe soles? In focus? Framed right? If not, retake.
We score wear across 8 zones per foot — heel-lateral, forefoot-medial, the works.
Cited interpretation cards. Confidence chips. Heatmap overlay. Shareable card.
The internet is full of "your shoes reveal everything about your gait" content. Most of it is overconfident.
What the actual research says: wear patterns correlate with how you run, but they're shaped by terrain, mileage, body weight, shoe geometry, and lacing too. So we tell you what we see, label every claim with a confidence level, and cite the real paper behind it.
It's a fun read, not a medical opinion.
Your rear-lateral heel wear (right: 8/10, left: 7/10) is consistent with a heel-strike running pattern. About 75% of recreational distance runners land this way. Doesn't mean you should change anything — heel striking isn't inherently bad.
Hamill & Gruber (2017) · J Sport Health Sci