A post about … well … sweat
Nice topic I’m sure.
Glad I’m not eating … oh wait, I am. It’s all I seem to do at the moment.
So, yeah, sweat.
Yesterday I went for a long run … 12km. It was a tad ambitious of me considering: my hydration levels, my fitness and the weather. Frick it was hot yesterday … sticky, humid with a hot wind.
Nonetheless, I figured I’d just plod along, there’s no hurry!
But I thought I’d better take my phone as I’d be travelling quite a distance from home, on quiet country roads. Just in case. Anything could happen.
Problem: where will I put my phone. I don’t want to carry it, I HATE having things in my hands when I am running. Ooh, I know, I’ll stick it down my crop top. I have a fabulous tight, flattening crop top which holds the bazoombas in well, the phone won’t bounce out of there. It’ll be perfectly safe.
What a cunning plan.
If only it wasn’t so hot. I sweated all over my phone, didn’t I?
When I got it out of my crop top, it wasn’t working. Bugger. I opened up the back and all this (let’s call it “water” … much more becoming) came out. Oh crap. I don’t want to have to get a new phone, that one was perfectly fine. For two hours, I dried it out on the window sill. Put the battery back in, no go. Crap. Double crap. Hubby suggested the “water” had shorted out the battery and maybe it just needed a jump start. Plugged it into its charger and it was away.
Hooray! It lives! It’s a miracle! See, that’s why I only have Nokias.
Lesson learnt. I am now off to buy myself a Fuel Belt. A very handy option for long runs and it means I can carry the all important phone. Maybe I should write to Nokia … they might be able to create the “Sweat Phone”. Think of the gimmicks … it could come with a little Pat Cash-style sweat band!! Brilliant.
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I’m glad your phone lives to see another day. Yes, I’m going to get a Fuel Belt soon too, to hold my ENDURA energy gels for my longer runs. But for my shorter runs I’ve got a ‘SPI Belt.’ It stands for Small Personal Items belt. It’s really cool. Mine has bright polka dots on it
I put my iPod in it, my house key and a little money. And, you know how I crashed off the bike last week? Unlike you, I didn’t have a phone on me. Or ID. I don’t want to think too long or hard about ‘what could have been.’ I could have been knocked unconscious. I could have fractured my leg or shoulder or clavicle (collar bone). I could have been hit by a car. Oh, Em… This sport we’ve got ourselves into – it’s dangerous (potentially)! ‘What if’ no one had have found me… ‘What if’ I was unconscious and I had no ID on me. SHIT! Let’s not think about that for much longer. I learned a big lesson from that crash. That’s the most important thing. That we learned from it. Must carry my phone and ID with me on my rides and runs.
Hi Jules,
I try really hard to never go down the “what if” track!!! It does my head in!! As far as ID goes – you can get these wrist or ankle things which have all your particulars on them. I think they’re pretty much specifically for athletes. Craig Alexander endorses them … worth looking into. But yes, I always take my mobile with me (down one of the legs of my knicks) because – rather embarrassingly – I’m yet to learn how to change a flat tyre!! Oopsie!! Also, I mainly travel country roads (that’s how it is when you live in the country!!) and it could be 10 years before anyone finds me!!!
Em
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Yeah I know. http://www.roadid.com I’ve moved around so damn much lately that I wouldn’t know what address to put on it! But I’ll be right now – I wont be moving for a while. I really should get one. Thanks for the reminder. I just found another similar one too thanks to ‘google.’ http://www.iceid.com.au “in case of emergency” ID for athletes (or anyone). Yeah, thinking about ‘what could have happened’ a couple of weeks ago does my head in too, for sure. Better to be prepared and have a means of contacting someone and ID in case I’m found, unconscious…
Oh Em, I’m even more ashamed re: the “I can’t change a flat yet” thing. I’m about to be on the bike for 180 km and I’m freaking out. A friend is going to teach me this arvo. “It’s not difficult.” So he says. I know the theory behind it but its the actually doing it that I struggle with.
Hope things are trucking along well for you babe. One day I’ll come visit you, can I? There’s someone else I really wanna visit too.
Yeah ID sounds like a good thing. I have two ICE contacts on my mobile too, they are listed under ICE. That’s a good thing to do too. Yep, I’m with you, I really have to get across the whole flat tyre changing thing!! It can’t be that hard, surely!!!
Sure can come for a visit … I’ll give you the grand tour of Tassie (well, maybe just the best bits!!!).