Been running for over 20 years and I've never before killed a pair of new running shoes.
From my pain you shall prosper.
Maybe not prosper, but perhaps you won't suffer as I have, the grief of just a couple of runs from a $100 pair of running shoes. (And with inflation, $100 is on the cheap for a decent pair of running kicks)
As they like to say, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity."
I inaugurated my new shoes on a morning 7 miler down in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Circa 5am, probably 70 degrees, but about 80% humidity. Yes, 80%...at 5am.
About 5 miles in my shorts are soaked with sweat, and for the next two miles, the sweat from above all proceeds to collect in my shoes. My new shoes.
I skipped a day and ran a shorter run with less humidity and the shoes, while much looser and, for lack of a better word, squishy, still had enough feel to run.
Cut to the end of vacation, back in Rhode Island for my long run 10 miler, and you guessed it, humidity. So about 5 miles of sweat collected in my shoes and by the end of the run it felt like running in Army boots. (No disrespect to Marine, Navy, or Air Force boots.)
Shoes = dead.
No life left. The sweat just took all the stability out, soaked it to death.
So I got three runs from a new pair of Mizuno Wave Riders.
My advice? Run when it isn't humid. Or if you must run in the humidity, be prepared to open thy wallet.
