Quitter

That's it I quit. I have been testing a pair of Brooks Cascadia 5 for the past ten and a half weeks. Between yesterday and today I have put seventeen miles on them. I am almost crippled now. They started to break down at about 150 miles, and by 175 they really needed to be replaced. If I had been buying them I would have replaced them by mile 175. Since I agreed to test them and got them for free I felt obligated to finish the whole 300 miles. I only made it to about 232. It would be no problem for me to finish the last sixty eight miles. In fact I will probably do it in my old shoes. It's just that these shoes have lost all of their ability to cushion my feet, protect my feet from rocks, are giving me blisters because the mid sole has collapsed so badly that it rubs a blister on the side of my foot, and are causing my knees to hurt. My knees never hurt. I know. It sounds like a bunch of excuses to me too.