Affiliate Disclosure

Required by the US FTC, and a reasonable thing to tell you anyway.

The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may receive a commission from the retailer. You pay exactly the same price either way — the commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your pocket.

Amazon

Stride After 40 is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Other retailers

We also participate in affiliate programmes run by running and outdoor retailers, generally through the AWIN and ShareASale networks. The same terms apply: we may earn a commission, you pay no more.

What this does and doesn't influence

It would be naive to claim commercial relationships have zero effect on a publication, so here is the honest position rather than a reassuring one:

• Commission rates play no part in which product gets named as a top pick in any guide.
• Commission rates do influence which topics get covered, because guides covering products with affiliate programmes are the ones that fund the site. You will therefore see more coverage of shoes and recovery devices than of, say, free stretching routines.
• We have never accepted payment from a brand in exchange for a favourable review, and if that ever changes it will be labelled unmistakably on the page in question.
• No brand is given sight of a guide before publication.

How our recommendations are produced

We think you should know this before weighing our advice. Guides on this site are research-led, not hands-on tested. We do not receive samples and we do not run a shoe lab. Recommendations are built from manufacturer specifications, independent laboratory measurements published by third parties, peer-reviewed biomechanics research, and aggregated owner reports. Where a claim rests on weak or contested evidence, we say so in the guide rather than rounding it up to confidence.

Our articles are produced with AI assistance and reviewed against the sourcing standards above. We would rather tell you that plainly than have you work it out and trust us less for the omission.