Racism won't work in this thread, either, although I suspect some may try it.
I'm an ordinary American white guy, early 50s. I have good personal hygiene. Occasionally I shower BEFORE my runs.
I just can't get over how unbelievably noxious/stinking/nasty/smelly my polypro running shorts, no matter the brand, become in the course of a two-hour summer run.
Were I a wine taster, blessed with a deep and rich impressionistic vocabulary, I'd talk about feral stenches, ammoniac twangs.....dead animals moldering in the bushes, actually.
I toss my shorts in the shower and give them a wash there in the suds around my feet, then let them dry in the sun.
That helps only slightly. It seems that my sweat reanimate whatever disgusting verminous nastiness is lingering in suspended animation.
I caught part of the third ALIENS movie yesterday. The scents in my running shorts seem to open their gaping jaws and knash at the air around me like Big Bad Alien-Daddy.
I'm serious. And I'm NORMAL.
I'm not talking about a run in which I've had to take a dump in the bushes and use leaves at toilet paper. Those elevate the smell-game to a whole other order of nasty.
Here are some useful adjectives:
resinous
hyena-vomit
rancid slime
dead animal by the side of the road in my shorts
maggots won't touch it
etc.