The dreaded chafe.
I don't chafe easily, but when I do, I do it in spectacular fashion. After spending my first relatively high-mileage summer a few years back training in blissfully low humidity, I woke up on the morning of my first marathon to record heat and humidity. It was the kind of humidity that fogs your glasses and makes you gasp for air. It was ugly, but I thought I was ready for it: I had purchased Body Glide earlier in the year - everyone loves Body Glide, right? I decided it was time to give it a try. I applied it to all of the necessary areas, I ran 26.2 miles, and I chafed badly. I'll spare you the details, but let's just say I didn't even know that women could chafe there.
Yeah. Please don't think about that too long. In fact, let's never speak of that again.
Needless to say, ever since then I've been very interested in finding an alternative to Body Glide.
I first heard about 2Toms from the guys on the fabulous Ten Junk Miles podcast. They absolutely rave about the 2Toms line. Their commentary piqued my interest, but I was never able to find it in stores and I wasn't quite ready to pull the trigger on buying it online. But when BibRave gave me an opportunity to review it, I jumped at the chance to try it.
I totally should have bought 2Toms Sport Shield ages ago.
I received the women's 2Toms Sport Shield in two forms: a roll-on bottle, and a few individually wrapped wipes.
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I couldn't wait to try it. I've spent a fair amount of time this winter putting in miles on the indoor track at the Pettit Ice Center. While I love having the Pettit as an option, its extremely dry climate combined with the relentlessness of long track miles (oh look, a left turn...another left turn...hey, I think I'll turn left up here...) wreaked havoc on my feet. I started getting blisters for the first time ever. Blisters are not an option for a streak runner.
Fortunately, my 2Toms arrived just in time. I started using the roll-on Sport Shield on my toes, and the blistering issues went away. I've logged six runs longer than thirteen miles at the Pettit in the past few months, and the blistering issue that I was struggling with is totally gone. I'll spare you a picture of my feet as proof (I'm rocking two black toenails right now, so my career as a foot model is on hold for the time being) but the piggies have never felt happier.
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| My Pettit bag: headphones, water bottle, cash, GUs, and 2Toms. |
The 2Toms Sport Shield single use wipes are great too - without getting too PG-13 in my descriptions, the wipes are great for getting at all of the nooks and crannies that can chafe and blister. I was a little worried the first time I opened the wipes - they felt a little dry. I think because they are packaged like wet-naps, I expected them to be as moist as wet-naps, but they aren't. They aren't supposed to be. But they work wonderfully, and are a must-have in my race bag.
And now, my cautionary tale. 2Toms is slippery - good news for your body, but potentially bad news for other things. For instance, if you lube up your feet and then walk across your hardwood floor before putting on socks, the 2Toms may leave a slick residue on your floor. It won't be visible, but it will be there waiting for you. And this residue may be so slippery that, days later, when you are in a haste to get ready for work you may find yourself skidding comically across your floor in a fashion usually reserved for cartoon characters stepping on banana peels. And in doing so you may fall on your ass in such a spectacularly noisy fashion that you wake everyone in the house. I'm not saying that happened to me, but...well, just be careful. This stuff is slick.
Want to try 2Toms for yourself? Here's the deets:
Find them at 2Toms.com
Check MediDyne's Facebook page.
Follow 2Toms on Twitter.
And best of all: get 20% off of your order through the end of April, 2016 by using the code "2Toms20"
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