After you’ve run on crushed limestone, your shoes should look like this:
not this:
and your socks definitely should not be leaving spots like this on the ground!
Welcome back, summer! As challenging as you make my runs, you’re here just in time for my last beach visit of the year!
But seriously, all the sweat running down my legs in to my socks is making so many of my running shoes ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING SMELLING, eww, eww, eww! I should dedicate one pair to the nasty swampy runs. OR wash a pair. OR not run in the am when the humidity is so high (seriously, I’ve been running later in the day when it’s hotter and less humid and it makes me feel less like death… odd, but I’ll take it!).
I actually had to wash mine this weekend they smelled so bad. And now, just 2 days later they are back to smelling terrible! Go away heat!
That is what my bestie said – she washed hers and that they smell bad already! Blah!
ha! I have made lots of wet sweat prints on my floors this summer lol My shoes are pretty bad too. I have not tried to nice little smelly balls.
I feel like I need to keep a towel by the door for when I come back from the run!
I hear you on the sweaty footprints. I’ve left sweaty butt prints from sitting on the ground after a run. It’s not just my shoes that stink – ALL of my running clothes do! Sadly it seems that laundry detergent just doesn’t cut it!
Ha ha ha! That makes me think about how I was teaching a class and we used boxing pads and I was demonstrating a knee to pad move and my knee was so wet it left a mark! Oops!
I was telling my mom I think I need to throw out all the tanks I bought for the summer cause they smell so bad, even though they were brand new this year. She suggested I soak them all in a bucket for a day. Ha! What do I have to lose? But laundry soap DOESN’T seem to cut it! At all!
The sweat issue is probably half the year here….I’m not allowed to sit anywhere in the house before I shower and I have to have special car seat covers..the shame 🙂
Ha ha ha. It’s okay – I keep a towel in my car to sit on for when I drive home after working out 😉
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HDMEUCW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00 This feels like a towel, clips around the headrest and is waterproof on the back so no bleed through to the seats and you can just pop it off and throw it in the washing machine…just in case you are looking for something easy. Not sponsored 😉 just like em.
Cool! Do you wash it each time you use it?
No usually once a week or so
Ew.
At least I didn’t get rained on.
Yeah that heat & humidity was not exactly welcome. I only ran in the dark, but YUCK. Today feels so much better!
I use Win detergent along with baking soda and that seems to help. Laundry detergent definitely will not help with removing odors in running clothes. I’ve noticed that my bras seem to stink up more than my shirts. Well, I read that they need to be replaced every 6 months or so? Yah, definitely time to get new ones.
Yeah 🙁 They do seem to need to be replaced the most often! I am happy the ones I buy are around $23 since I go through so many each year!