Trail Mix | How to dry your running shoes in Hong Kong’s humid season – don’t miss training just because it’s raining
- Runners wanting to train multiple days in a row face the dilemma of having perpetually wet shoes – but here are a few tricks to try out
Here is a dilemma that many a runner in Hong Kong will have to contend with.
You want to run every day, but it is raining every day. So do you wear the same pair of running shoes day in, day out, even if it means sticking your feet into soggy, increasingly pungent trainers? Or do you rotate among the several pairs that you have, inevitably getting each pair wet over the course of the week?
It’s a tough call. And whichever option you choose, the perennial challenge remains: how do you get those shoes dry again? It’s no easy feat to have dry feet in the rainy season in Hong Kong.
The humidity is extraordinarily high, torrential downpours are common, and the sun is rarely to be seen amid the gloomy grey clouds.
Add to this the fact that few of us have access to a patio or terrace, let alone a backyard or a rooftop, that gets enough sunlight to dry anything with. The result is sweat- and rain-drenched shoes that start to reek very quickly.
