First run impressions in Saucony’s Tempus shoes

The shoes are orange.

I have run in these shoes three times now. The total mileage for each day was between ten and fifteen miles. Each session occurred on a Saturday morning. I completed these runs on January 13, 20, and 27. The January 20 run still had snow and ice on the ground. The picture above is from that run.

Before completing a specific workout, I pretty much always run the same 1.5-to-2.5-mile loop in the neighborhood. The purpose of this loop is to shake off the rubber band rot of my now clearly middle-aged tendons.

Saucony’s Tempus model is a support shoe that isn’t a support shoe. That’s how they marketed it. I bought a pair because of an ongoing bout with my right leg’s case of peroneal tendonitis.

I wore stability shoes once upon a time, but I haven’t been wearing them at all the last few years. I’m not sure I ever really needed to be wearing them. I think stability shoes had simply become an easy answer for every runner’s woe.

The last few years I have been wearing Saucony Rides as my daily trainers. I have also raced in them, and this past year I raced quite a bit in a pink pair of Endorphin Pro 3s. The idea behind getting a pair of Tempus shoes was not to replace any of the other shoes I currently wear but to fill out a toolkit that needed something other than a hammer or a drill.