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Running and fitness

Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Woman in black sportswear doing crunches on a blue mat with her calves resting on an exercise ball — Resting the legs on a stability ball changes the angle of a crunch and takes strain off the lower back.Photo: Tyler Read · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Woman in black sportswear doing crunches on a blue mat with her calves resting on an exercise ball

Budget and prices

What a pair of running shoes costs per mile

Price divided by miles is the only figure that compares two pairs. At $130 over 400 miles it is 32.5 cents a mile, or $1.63 a five-mile run.

Updated 11/3/2026 · 8 min

Photo: Tyler Read · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons