Running only 4 miles a week - do I need to bother with expensive running shoes?

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Planning to start doing a 2 mile run on pavement twice a week, started last week and can do it in about 20 mins (I know, poor, hoping to get to 16 mins and will be satisfied with that). Finding my sturdy hiking trainers to be more comfortable than my cheap Nike running shoes which left me with sore ankles the next day.
Always reading about how important it is to get gait-analysis and £100 running shoes - but seriously I'm not planning to ever run more than 4 miles a week. When I was a kid people would run in hard plimsoles and there was none of this marketing around 'must have' fitted trainers. My uncle used to do cross-country marathons in the scottish highlands in the 1960s before trainers existed - never had any problems with his legs or feet.
Always reading about how important it is to get gait-analysis and £100 running shoes - but seriously I'm not planning to ever run more than 4 miles a week. When I was a kid people would run in hard plimsoles and there was none of this marketing around 'must have' fitted trainers. My uncle used to do cross-country marathons in the scottish highlands in the 1960s before trainers existed - never had any problems with his legs or feet.
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and 10 minute per mile is a pretty decent pace!
I have expensive running shoes that I used when running. I read somewhere that expensive shoes with thick soles can encourage landing on your heels, which is bad for the knees. So cheaper can mean better. The problem is the lack of good research, and the sales blarny from shoe companies. You do want to make sure the shoe allows for your gait. If you pronate for example, the shoe should compensate. If not, you risk putting undue stress on your knees leading to pain and injury. A running shoe shop can help you choose. And no you don’t need to spend much.
I found some good trainers on there. I tend not to spend more than £50 on running shoes at any one time.
With regards to how much you spend on running shoes, two different schools of thought here:
1. Just find a cheap running shoe in sports direct or wherever (make sure you try it on though!), taking the risk that it may or may not work out for you
2. Get the gait analysis and try diff trainers on in the higher price bracket but the idea is you find the shoe that works for you and then you can just keep buying those esp when they come on sale. Even the shops such runners need do discounts. My last pair from them were £75..reduced from £120 ish. Not cheap but they work so well for my foot shape which is wider than standard in the midfoot but with a narrow ankle.
Gait analysis is a waste of time unless you've had an injury or have some joint or other muscular-skeletal issues that cause you discomfort when running.