Shorts Story

Shawn has requested I share this, and hopefully it will help you. I will pass this story on, and not to offend anyone I will refer to it as the "area" (I believe you can figure it out). Most would say with any kind of distance training that some chaffing would occur. So I took some precautions in my training, but I also did not want to get too carried away in spending money on clothing. So, I did buy some nice running shorts, you know the kind, short and silky with the built in brief that treated the "area" petty fairly. Well as I got closer to the triathlon I realized that this style of shorts was not modest to swim in and problematic when biking. I didn't want to wear strictly biking shorts because they have too large a cameo in the crouch area (feels funny when it gets wet). I couldn't find "reasonably" priced tri-shorts. So I found a pair of running shorts that were a little longer, a little heavier on the outside material.

The shorts had a different liner than my other running shorts. I would say it was similar to a pair of swimming trunks. You know the white mesh style, but it had a real a tight mesh. I trained in them. I even did a bike/run session where I biked 10 miles and ran 2.5. No problem. They worked great.

I did my whole triathlon. I felt tired. My muscle hurt. We went home. I had a company picnic to go to in the afternoon, so I took a shower. I usually seem to back into the shower spray, getting my back wet, which I did this time. I then turned around in the shower, the warm water hit the "area", and I hit the ceiling. Man did that burn. When I stopped jumping around I was able to look down for some further inspection. Well sure enough my wonderful shorts had, for lack of a better term, "brush burned" the tip of the "area".

I tenderly worked around it in the shower. Then the true dilemma occurred at the picnic. We go to a Wave Pool. Of course that is what the kids wanted to do, the WHOLE TIME. It was okay as long as water was around my waist. If I had to to get out or the waves were moving up and down, it was burning! I slept with a pair of silk boxer's on for the next two nights (not for romantic reasons).

With every story there is a moral. Don't' be too cheap to buy the clothes you need or think way ahead of time and wait for them to go on sale.

Understand we are now training for a triathlon twice as long as the one I did. Does that mean twice the burn?