Midlife Marathoner wrote:
I wore first generation Vaporflies for yesterday’s race and my feet have never gotten so wet, so quickly, in a relatively mild rain (the rain got a lot worse about 20 miles in, but wasn’t too bad early on). I was quite disappointed that such an expensive shoe is apparently useless against the weather. I could no longer feel my feet at the end of the course and wound up in a medical tent for the first time ever (hypothermia symptoms).
And it’s not like I intentionally sought out puddles to run through. But there was enough standing water on the roads that my feet were soaked almost from the very start.
You do realize that ventilation and weight reduction are two of the top priorities after lockdown when making a racing shoe upper, right? Why in the world would you expect something with those qualities to be water resistant?