planetdan

Monday, June 18, 2007 :::

Just try not to wince.

One reason why I have no desire to run a half marathon: nipple chafing.

My companions and I made simultaneous wincing noises as this poor guy jogged by. I felt so bad for the fella. Not bad enough to keep my camera's lens cap on, but that doesn't mean my nipples don't throb in sympathy every time I look at the picture.

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ARGH! Sweet heyzeus... I have never seen nor imagined such an occurrence, and this gives me all the more motivation to NEVER RUN. PAIN. Ugh.

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the boy, at 9:13 AM

Question... Why didn't he just take his shirt off? He TOTALLY could've avoided a week or more nipple pain and tucked the damn thing into his waistband! It's hard to sympathize with him when the answer to his problem seems so OBVIOUS!!!

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Anonymous, at 9:59 AM

Don't you love what just the slightest slip in English grammar can do to a sentence?

"He TOTALLY could've avoided a week or more nipple pain and tucked the damn thing into his waistband!"

!!!!!!!!!LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous, at 10:58 AM

Holy ouchies! I've never heard of it either, but I can't sympathize with a masochist.

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Trudy, at 12:18 PM

I think those little band-aids could have helped, but then there wuold have been the issue of ripping off the nipple hair. Either way, why run the marathon???

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otimak, at 12:56 PM

i usually wear band-aids when i run, and yes it sucks when you have to peel them off. chafing typically doesn't become an issue until you get into longer double-digit distances. plus, and this may seem odd - you don't really notice it while you're running (at least i don't). it's simply unsightly and embarassing more than anything else.

give the guy a break though. if you've never run a half-marathon, you have no idea how exhilarating it is to finish. it is well worth some minor nipple discomfort.

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Anonymous, at 1:16 PM

n00b. They make nipple tape to avoid just such pain. (And you avoid ripping out the hair by shaving first, duh.) Still, long-distance runners are masochists, IMO.

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june, at 2:47 PM

I have that same t-shirt - minus the ltd edition nipple print.

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Anonymous, at 3:16 PM

Ouch!!! That is so bad! I've had that happen before on the left nip from some crappy monogram on a polo. I wasn't even running a marathon. Mine didn't bleed that bad either.

Poor guy...

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CampBlood, at 7:36 AM

I'm just pretending that his nipples ooze ketchup. It helps.

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E.B. Whitehead, at 12:20 PM

...maybe he got them pierced

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Richard, at 11:18 AM

Here is the best thing to prevent bloody nipples - Nips Guards - a truely miracle product:

http://www.nipguards.com/

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Kent, at 11:45 AM

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