My question is dumb and intimate; what if anything are you supposed to wear under lycra?
With my 3rd marathon in 3 weeks I suffered from chafing for the first time on my 20-miler on Sunday. So I bought some men's Nike lycra shorts, but was disappointed to find they're not really built for men if you see what I mean ;-)
All in all I couldn't see me doing more than 10 miles without the lycra itself causing chafing. But knickers, lycra AND running shorts seems a recipe for overheating. Thoughts?
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I'm not a lyrca fan myself and I have suffered from chaffing in the past so I bought some longer length shorts. Combined with vaseline, I have no problems anymore.
I was going to say that you shouldn't be messing around changing your shorts with three weeks to go before a Marathon and then I remembered that I bought my first pair of lycra shorts at the pre-race expo of the Rotterdam '99 marathon on a whim, wore them for the race and had no probs.
For those longer runs over about an hour I find the lycras and a liberal dose of vaseline in that area where the sun does not shine prevents chafing.
Over the lycras I wear running shorts so I don't look like Lynford !
Again, I wear something over the top of them. Don't want to get prosecuted for indecency.
The newline tops are nice too - very wicking.