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vaseline - never use it
fat andy
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I've never used vaseline for any of my training runs but everyone else swears by it. My longest run is 20m so does chaffing happen a lot after 20m or am I just lucky?
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I only use vaseline to keep the skin of my face from falling off on cold windy days, and it has to be the unbleached yellow stuff, not the white sort.
I tend not to get blisters myself, which is fortunate, but I do get sore around the groin area if I don't vaseline it.
However, I had the unpleasant honour of experiencing nipple rash for the first time about a month ago on my first 20+ mile run, which struck at about mile 18. On that evidence, I would think there is still a risk.
My perspective is that given you're only rubbing it on the outside, it can't have any adverse effect, so give it a bit of the old 'enry coopah - "splash it all over!!!"
If you do use it and wouldn't have suffered anyway you've not lost anything.
So I'd take the precaution.
Have a good day
I'm taping them though on Sunday, as it might rain. For those who tape, do you not find the tape rubs or do you vas underneath it?
Always use vas on every part that rubs!!
I'm not running the marathon mind you, I just like it !
(Joke !)
OW OW OW OW OW!!