It’s been a while since I’ve complained about this phenomenon on this blog, but today with the onset of warmer weather I’ve been reintroduced to the associated discomfort. After training for so long during the cold weather months I was caught off guard by today’s humidity. It was a bit odd because there was rain forecasted, but nothing was really falling from the sky. The rain only came down during my run, but only in short bursts. Frankly, those few moments of rain were a welcome respite. The rain cooled me down, as well as relieved a bit of my pain. Oh, what pain? Well, the humidity was causing me to sweat more than I have been in the past while. At around the 5K mark or so I started noticing a bit of nipple soreness. Al I could think was “Oh hell no!” I didn’t want to deal with that on my longest training run during the current training cycle, and certainly not so early into it. Since it was so early, I immediately started worrying about it progressing to the point of bleeding. This is not how I wanted things to go. I swear, the only equivalent I can think of is someone taking sandpaper to your nipples and applying slowly and lightly.
I managed to get myself to a point where the pain was tolerable and not distracting. Of course, when I got home and took off my shirt, that’s the point where I really noticed how bad things were. I didn’t want to take a shower right away because I knew I’d be in for a world of pain if I did. Anyway, I guess the point of all this is that often I forget about these small necessary things when it comes to training. It takes a bit of physical discomfort to remind me of these things.
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