Inspired by a podcast of the same name (running is BS) that loves to hate running.
This week I particularly hate running because…
Spring time in upon the northern hemisphere, but that brings about the freaking hoard of hovering flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 at mouth level for easy ingestion.
Whether it is parks, trails, by water bodies, I can’t seem to get away from them and always end up eating a mouthful of tiny flies, or at least up in my nostrils.
The worst was when I held my breath over a few steps thinking I made it through a patch, and gasping my way into another horde and engulfing a mother road after. UGH.
I’m engaged in a 10 year battle against chafing. I finally found shorts I like, but they were manufactured in partnership with my local running store, and they couldn’t justify keeping the program going.
Then I switched to Asics 2 in 1 with built in boxer-briefs. I thought they were perfect but I swear the last 2 pairs I had lasted less than 5 runs before a hole opened up and allowed chafing.
Now I’ve been running in LuLuLemon shorts that are a tad smaller than I’d prefer, but they’ve been completely chafe free and seem to be holding up structurally.
15 year running chafer here, I’ve learnt to live it with some help from Vaseline.
Tired of spending countless bucks on tops, tights and shorts only for the designs to change in a few years to chafe again, or my body grows in whatever ways to chaf.
I just slab on the vase
For me, the flies in the eyes are just as bad, if not worse, than the flies in my lungs.
I just call that “cheat day” as a vegan 🤷♂️
Former resident of Australia here. Just accept them as a source of protein to fuel your run, and carry on :P Now the flies are here, they’re never fucking off…
Running isn’t bs, my tiny ass groin muscle that won’t strengthen and stop pulling that is stopping me from running is bs xD I wish I was inhaling flies rather than not running.
Wear a lightweight neck gaiter over your mouth and nose. https://a.co/d/1LvUTjp
Some extra protein doesn’t hurt anyone.
For me, it’s always the salt drying and then drifting down my eyes to make them water
so much this yes. I would love to trade that burning salty drip in your eyes with more flies in my nostrils any time if I could
Isn’t that what bandanas are for? The kind some tennis players wear?
Now I’m wondering about the taste of salted flies on my runs. Proteins and electrolytes directly in 1 gulp
Ohhh yes. Mouth, eyes, lungs – they get everywhere.
Sometimes when I get home my face is dappled with them as they stick to my sweaty skin :)
Before the flies however, if you live in a northern city, there’s the dusty air in the couple of weeks after the snow has melted and they haven’t washed the roads yet. Add pollen to that and your lungs soon start to feel like your a regular smoker.
or live in a city where the air quality meter never ever dips below “poor” so them little bastards can’t exist!
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