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2014-08-21 11:47 AM

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**editted...evidently the site will not allow the word a-s-s crack to show up...as I had originally written this. FYI**

Does anyone else get severe crack problems after long runs? It seems to be especially bad when it's very humid. Probably from a ton of sweat running down my back into the crack. I run in tri shorts and don't seem to have any chafing anywhere except for right in the crack and it only seems to happen when I do longer runs. Anything longer than 6 miles or so seems to do it. I haven't tried a lot of troubleshooting....although one option I thought about was applying myself with a bunch of body glide in the area, but if I need to do I need to buy a new stick and label it appropriately.



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2014-08-21 11:56 AM
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Originally posted by dprocket **editted...evidently the site will not allow the word a-s-s crack to show up...as I had originally written this. FYI** Does anyone else get severe crack problems after long runs? It seems to be especially bad when it's very humid. Probably from a ton of sweat running down my back into the crack. I run in tri shorts and don't seem to have any chafing anywhere except for right in the crack and it only seems to happen when I do longer runs. Anything longer than 6 miles or so seems to do it. I haven't tried a lot of troubleshooting....although one option I thought about was applying myself with a bunch of body glide in the area, but if I need to do I need to buy a new stick and label it appropriately.

please PLEASE buy the body glide, cover the word "body" with "a-s-s" and leave it lying around your house and record people's reactions.

 

PLEASE

 

2014-08-21 12:03 PM
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this thread is rated R

2014-08-21 1:25 PM
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This thread has SO much potential...

2014-08-21 1:41 PM
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Ok I will get it started...

 

Quit shaving ur ace, it does not make you faster and that hair back there serves a real purpose!

 

2014-08-21 1:48 PM
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Bodyglide! I don't go on a run without using it there! I peel the label off the bodyglide I use for that area.


2014-08-21 2:20 PM
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spray antiperspirant/deodorant keep it dry. Or body glide, but don't ask for A**glide, you will get looked at funny, or get nothing close to what you were looking for.
2014-08-21 2:37 PM
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Subject: RE: *ss crack problems
Originally posted by dprocket

**editted...evidently the site will not allow the word a-s-s crack to show up...as I had originally written this. FYI**

Does anyone else get severe crack problems after long runs? It seems to be especially bad when it's very humid. Probably from a ton of sweat running down my back into the crack. I run in tri shorts and don't seem to have any chafing anywhere except for right in the crack and it only seems to happen when I do longer runs. Anything longer than 6 miles or so seems to do it. I haven't tried a lot of troubleshooting....although one option I thought about was applying myself with a bunch of body glide in the area, but if I need to do I need to buy a new stick and label it appropriately.




This happens to me as well in the heat - I have learned that a modest application of your favorite chamois cream seems to fix this issue
2014-08-22 8:42 AM
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I've been wondering whether I even want to write this up here or not. But now that the subject has been broached, here's TMI that might help someone else avoid trial and error.


I found when I ran over about 3 miles, putting on some chamois cream in the usual places helps. Not near as much as when I ride but just a touch. I also found out the ol' crack feels much better afterwords if I help it along a bit as well for runs like that.

The longer and "it's funny... NOW" part is this. Last year I started doing more road bike and zero tri bike. Kidney issues that disallowed me bending over on the bars.

I never even thought about that. I started getting horrible rash, itching, etc and honestly thought it was hemorrhoids or another similar issue. Got so bad I used preparation H, aloe spray, lanocain, pretty much anything I could think of. I ended up getting an endoscopy (I'm 48 so that's not a bad thing anyway) that showed no issues.

WTF?

I found when I boiled myself in the bathtub with epsom salts every night everything felt better. So that's what I did.

About two/three months ago I realized I felt like rug burn on my tucas. Hmmm...

I started making sure that in addition to the one spot on the right side of my undercarriage I gooped up because that's where I get chafing, I put some chamois cream where the sun don't shine. My GOD! That's IT!

Yeah, the whole thing was chafing and it all ended when I started using chamois cream while riding as well as when running. Now, thinking back, it's amusing but damn that hurt rather frequently.

2014-08-22 1:27 PM
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I just wanted this top be on top of the "{wife hates speedos" thread.

2014-08-22 1:37 PM
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msteiner wears a speedo.



2014-08-22 2:26 PM
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Originally posted by Left Brain

msteiner wears a speedo.

Ha! 

2015-04-01 6:07 PM
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The good news is that I am not alone, the bad news is I now have to ask my question.

I am hairy in all the places I don't want it - ears, nose, back and I'll leave the rest to your imagination - and losing hair where I do want it - my head. My kids think I am a silver-back gorilla and have even worn a rashie to swim squad to avoid embaressment. (By the way, I was the only silver-back gorilla in the pool with a rashie so embaressment was not avoided. Not even a little bit).

I find that my back-side and crack chafe up something horible on long rides or runs, despite liberal application of glide and / or chamois cream and / or vaseline.

So I have been considering the old back, crack and other parts wax or shave or even laser removal to aid in less chafe-age.

From this thread that seems like a bad idea.

So here is my question - has anyone removed all the hair from glutes, hips, down to quads and everything inbetween with a positive effect? And is prepared to admit it on a public forum?

let the p!55-taking begin...
2015-04-02 9:35 AM
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Sweat Gutr is something you wear on your head which diverts sweat from your face and eyes.  Seems like that company needs to expand its offerings to include a lower back gutter - maybe the Crack Gutr.

 

 

2015-04-02 9:53 AM
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Tri Slide. It's lube in a spray can. Then, you can use it everywhere without it being weird

2015-04-02 11:19 AM
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> Love speedos -CHECK
>Shave a-s-s- crack - CHECK
>Routine Epsom soaks - CHECK
*Use 100% cocoa butter instead of body glide - CHECK CHECK!
Find it lasts longer through sweat, cheaper and really good for the skin


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