RunningAHEAD - Topic: Do you wash your shoes? (page 2)

C-R

posted: 4/17/2008 at 3:18 PM

Hehehe - good one. I got my sparkling new HRM and went for a run. I was perplexed that I couldn't seem to get the blasted thing over 80. Thought it was a bad lead or something. About two miles into the run, I stop at a traffic intersection and notice I had it set on % of Max. DOOH!. The guy waiting for the light probably thinks I have terrets syndrom. And yes I am a guy and no I do not need to read the instruction manual.

"He conquers who endures" - Persius
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Marcus L S

The Greatest of All Time

posted: 4/17/2008 at 3:24 PM

If I ever wash them in a machine it's not until they're retired from the road.

all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be

Obesity is a disease. Yes, a disease where nothing tastes bad...except salads.

jeffreyvollum

posted: 4/17/2008 at 4:04 PM

Quote from Echo on 4/17/2008 at 2:49 PM:

off topic- Jeff, I was and always will be a Navy Corpsman, Cardiovascular Technologist Derrick

Derrick, Me too, brother - Aerospace Med Tech. Jeff

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

protoplasm72

posted: 4/17/2008 at 6:08 PM

I'm embarrassed to wear clean shoes. I'd never show up to a race in shoes that haven't been in the mud a few times. I just let the mud dry then shake off the dried stuff the next morning.

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get. -- Homer Simpson

Teresadfp

One day at a time

posted: 4/17/2008 at 6:20 PM

I've even got a little dried blood on mine, from a blister on the inside of my left foot. DS was suitably impressed. Now the blister has healed and the shoes seem to be OK.

Echo

posted: 4/17/2008 at 10:23 PM

Love the blood Teresa. Jeff when did you retire? Ever stationed at Whidbey Island? Derrick

If the road less traveled was easy, would it be...?

jeffreyvollum

posted: 4/18/2008 at 8:08 AM

I've even got a little dried blood on mine, from a blister on the inside of my left foot Awesome - me too. Mine was from my own clumsiness, falling and gouging my knee on the asphalt. I finished the run, my sock looked like Curt Schilling's World Series sock, and the runoff had splattered on my shoe. It didn't change the fact that I looked like an idiot when I fell with all sorts of traffic looking at me. Confused

Jeff when did you retire? Ever stationed at Whidbey Island? Derrick - April 2000. Never at Whidbey. Only West Coast assignment for me was San Diego.

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 4/18/2008 at 9:33 AM

Quote from Echo on 4/17/2008 at 12:02 AM:

Do you wash your shoes?

No. Unless they get really really really nasty after a swampy trail run AND I don't feel like leaving them in the garage. But usually : No.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

jeffdonahue

posted: 4/18/2008 at 10:14 AM

Typically I just clap them together to get the big chunks of dirt out of the treads so i dont leave a trail around the house. Oh, and once I did wash them after the Muddy Buddy relay - but that really is a whole different beast. I learned after that and the next year I just wore a pair of throw aways.

turboterie1

posted: 4/18/2008 at 10:31 AM

Never. I worked hard to make my shoes look like the color of sand and am proud of it.

Finished my first marathon 1-13-2008 in 6:03:37 at P.F. Chang's in Phoenix. PR in San Antonio RnR 5:45:58!!!!!! on 11-16-08 The only thing that has ever made any difference in my running is running. Goal: Break 2:30 in the HM this year Jay Benson Tri (place in Athena category) 5-10-09

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