Bob2 Runs a Marathon – Day 9
Hi everybody! Your friendly, neighborhood, full-time Bob/part-time marathon trainer here! Day 9 got me back in the gym after a rest day where I, get this, rested! Just 2 miles on the docket, and I rocked them all! I couldn’t help but notice on my last post, the main man himself, Dick Beardsley, commented on the post! I don’t care if it was him or some internet troll impostering him, it made my day. Thanks for the encouragement and I will definitely stop by the booth up in Duluth!
If you are still reading, I’d like to ask you something; it’s not everyday that I have an American long distance running legend in my audience! Question to Dick – or anyone else that may have a solution – what the heck do you do about nipple chaffing? Serious question. Girls I assume don’t have this problem, they have the sports bra working on their side. Guys who are conditioned runners are probably off the hook too, since they don’t look so dastardly running shirtless. So Dick, you may not have this problem, but running is in your wheelhouse, so you may have some input. Its a serious problem for many runners and it is the upper body equivalent of getting kicked in the nuts. Now I know why baby formula was invented…
Anyway. It’s cold here in Minneapolis, so you can imagine I’ve been doing all of my training on a treadmill at my gym and I have a bone to pick with my fellow runners banished to the treadmill for the winter months. Now it’s been shown that running and walking on an incline has many benefits – you’ll burn more calories and be ready for the hills that you’ll encounter on the paths once it thaws out. But seriously, those benefits are wasted when you jack up the treadmill to a 15% grade, and then hang on for dear life to the handle. I don’t know how else to explain it without busting out a physics text book. Other than possibly winding up with some killer Popeye-esque forearms, all you are essentially doing is running on a flat surface while looking silly.
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