u/SiempreSeattle

▲ 6 r/brooks

Adrenaline 25s are too spongy

between the lower heel to toe drop and how spongy these things are, my knees have been killing me- I think they're just not going to work.

I've been in Adrenalines forever. I don't really run, unless I'm reffing soccer; but I do walk a fair amount (mile or three almost every day with the dog). I'm carrying too much weight (6'1", 230ish) but that hasn't changed significantly in the past year or two.

So basically through process of elimination, it's the Adrenaline 25s.

What do I replace these with? For now I'm buying a few pairs of 22s and 23s that I found online. I tried the 24s when they came out and they didn't really feel right for me, so I went back to the 23s. I had read the 25s would be even more different and they were, but not in a good way.

Suggestions? I have monster arches (water can run sideways under my right foot), tore the hell out of my plantar fascia a few years ago, wear custom arch supporting orthotics, and still pronate a lot, so some kind of motion control shoe is best.

Is there another model in Brooks' line? Even more stability, with a heel drop like the Adrenalines used to have and not a gooey marshmallow heel?

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u/SiempreSeattle — 4 days ago
▲ 18 r/pools

Our pool has gone through some work and is now getting filled back up… very exciting!

Had a pool joint cone out and declare that the tiles were shot and all needed to come off, poop resealed, new surface or tiles added.

Our remodeling contractor: “nah, let me fix them”

Took him a day or two and boom, redid the tiles and filled the pool back up. No leaks.

BUT it needed a new filter, new pump, added a salt system… and put it all into a little equipment house. Ran a new electric line out there with capacity for future expansion (heat pump heater, I hope) and redid the lights and now it’s filling back up!

Wish I could be the first to have a swim but unlikely right now, back this summer for more.

u/SiempreSeattle — 24 days ago
▲ 92 r/pools

The neighbors don’t bother putting anything in their pool over the winter. Last summer they did finally open it, but much of the year it looks like this. (And even when it was open, it stayed pretty cloudyc albeit not green.)

Besides being a steaming fetid stew that will put their filter to the test when they do SLAM it, the mosquitos are probably insane. I’ve thought about lobbing a few dozen mosquitofish or guppies or goldfish into that swamp.

It’s in a neighborhood in Spain where a fair number of houses are used as vacation/summer homes (like ours, but we’re opening it as an Airbnb) but these people are there full time.

Why? Chlorine isn’t THAT much. Ick.

u/SiempreSeattle — 26 days ago