Blog Posts From Turtle Training Tagged With chafing

And Yet More on SportShield

Steve Carton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:20:42 GMT

Happy New Year Everyone. I thought I would start off on the wrong foot - by whining!

I've been carrying the rollon version of SportShield (which I wrote about previously) in my running gym-bag but the bottle got knocked sideways; I don't know when. When I opened the bag to get my watch and other running kit out the other day, everything was coated in SportShield. Not only was it a pain to clean up, it was a total waste of the product.

It works well (though I can't say if it is any better than BodyGlide), but if they can't find a way to seal the bottle more effectively, I won't buy it again.

More on SportShield

Steve Carton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:11:13 GMT

Well, I used SportShield again last night on an 18-mile long run and it worked fine. No chafing in any of my tender sports

My only (very minor) complaint is that SportShield is a liquid (or at least what I got is a liquid roll-on) and the container is not leak-proof. So I have to make sure it stays upright in my gym bag. Minor price to pay for what seems to be a good product. I can't say that it's better than BodyGlide. But I will keep using it.

SportShield from TwoToms.

Steve Carton — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:34:10 GMT

I've been using BodyGlide for every marathon and training run and never had a problem. But in a comment to a post back in May, I was advised of another product: SportShield from TwoToms. I hadn't gotten around to trying it, but bought a roll-on tube recently and got to try it on my long run yesterday.

I think the jury is still out. I use BodyGlide both on my inner thighs and on my nipples for long runs and marathon races. Yesterday was a 19 mile LSD and I liberally applied the SportShield to both places (well, all four, but who's counting). At the end, my nipples were fine. My inner thighs seemed to be a little raw, but not really noticable. So I'll try it again next week. But I've never noticed any rawness at all after using BodyGlide.

Relearning the Importance of Body Glide!

Steve Carton — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:16:48 GMT

How could I have forgotten this! I started my long run yesterday and totally forgot to apply body-glide to my inner legs. We were heading out for an 18 mile run with some good hill work. I got to around mile 10 and had such bad chafing that I was starting to run bow-legged. In another couple of miles, my hips started to hurt, and my knees! Ended up walking the last mile. It was awful!