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Good Bad & The Monkey
Wuss. Why I remember back in the day, we used to run 3,000 miles on a pair of shoes. If we were lucky enough to have them. Sometimes, we just wore rocks on our feet. And we liked it, I tell you. We liked it.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Runners run
I'm curious. Why do shoes wear out faster if you run in wet conditions? ... I think shoe mileage is one of those areas where there will be a big difference from runner to runner.
Shoes are made mostly of light-weight plastic/synthetic materials. From what I've heard, these plastics do break down pretty rapidly (which is why you can't buy 40 pairs of your favorite running shoe to use for the next 20 years... they won't last, even straight out of the box) and I can only imagine that water would accelerate this process (as it does with many other materials). Also, a lot of the shoe is held together with glue (not stitching), and I suspect these glues can loosen up a bit too with exposure to water. And I think it's pretty clear that when the plastic/glue in your shoes is breaking down, the support from the shoe is going to weaken.
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Shoes are made mostly of light-weight plastic/synthetic materials. From what I've heard, these plastics do break down pretty rapidly (which is why you can't buy 40 pairs of your favorite running shoe to use for the next 20 years... they won't last, even straight out of the box)