Okay, so I went out for a 6 miler last night. A lovely run, I added some new streets & I'm excited to push my running routes into new neighborhoods. I wore a Russell Athletic tech shirt as my first layer under a tee-shirt & my running jacket. I bought it a couple of weeks ago at TJ Maxx for $9. A good deal,a long sleeve tech shirt retails for around $12-17 at Target.
When I get upstairs to take a shower I peel off the running jacket & am greeted by two bright red spots on the front of my white teeshirt. WTF! Soaked right through the technical shirt. I take everything off & at first don't see any wounds but,on closeR examination I see the underside of both nipples are rubbed raw. The shower was a freakin' blast. When the water hit the spots the pain was exquisite. I shave (my face)in the shower & there was no way to handle it but,to leave the ladies unprotected.
This wasn't the first time I've had raw nipples but,it's very rare. The first time I ran the Boston Marathon in '81 I discovered runner's nipple in the shower afterwards. The 2nd time I ran Boston I put vaseline on my nipples before the race. The vaseline heated up & weeped through the shirt during the course of the run & I looked like a nursing mother by the end of the race. Classy. I got raw nipples the first time I ran greater than 5 miles in my latest incarnation as a runner. It's been very rare since then, I just figured my nips developed calluses. Last night was the first time I drew blood.
What to do on tonight's run? I could blow it off. I often x-train on altenating days anwyay but,the long term forecast for the week makes the weekend weather kind of dicey. Might want to run outside while I can. Plus, the new route was fun & I want to push it a litte further into the new 'hoods. I'll be wearing a different tech top but,should I use Bodyglide or bandaids? Bandaids would hurt taking them off. There's no way to avoid the hair on my chest. I'm not sure Bodyglide would be of help on that particular spot.
There's no way to avoid the body's natural reaction to cooler air. Just like the fellas retract up into the body like the wheels on an airplane the ladies pop out like that thing on a Perdue chicken. Ah well, my new black, cool looking tech shirt just might not be a running shirt. Maybe my nips just need to toughen up.
3 comments:
This continues to make me cringe when I think about it. It is one of those things (like pondering how wombats make square poop) that continues to elicit the same response from my brain no matter how many times I think about it.
And thank you for the clarification that it is your face you're shaving. :)
I was thinking of shaving the area right around the nipples to make removing band-aids easier but, then I'd wind up looking like a surprised owl. Picture it in your mind.
Wombats make square poop? I gotta watch Animal Planet more often.
We have a commercial around here with an owl hooting.
Owl: "Whooooooo"
Announcer Dude: "Smith's Furniture, that's who"
I'll think about you every time I hear that now.
And yes, the whole wombat poop thing perplexes me. I can't decide if it comes out cube-shaped (square hole?) or if they shape it after it is out (weird).
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