I've worn and used Aasics for over a decade now. But I thought I'd try out a different brand, especially due to different reviews I'd read praising these Ride 7's.<br /><br />It's a decent enough shoe...until the sole seemed to fracture itself in my right shoe in the forefoot. It's been hot so I haven't been running for about a week and a half, just walking. It broke into about the month mark, but probably it would have been by the 3 week mark otherwise.<br /><br />I rarely return things, and especially for a running shoe all I'm ever really looking for is a year at most, depending on mileage too. Aasics has generally been good even longer than a year, and runs the same at mile 500 that it does at mile 10. I barely got maybe 30 miles on these things before they were no good.<br /><br />Maybe you won't get a bad pair. I just sent them for a return, and hopefully I get a full refund (I did buy a box to ship them off in, but I don't stress over that minimal amount). But I'm just putting this in here in case others have the same problem, in which case the reviews will add up and people should avoid it in that case. If I'm an isolated incident that's fine, maybe they have a small failure rate and things like that happen. If I'm not, then it will show in the reviews.