Inspired by a podcast of the same name (running is BS) that loves to hate running.

This week I particularly hate running because…

Spring time in upon the northern hemisphere, but that brings about the freaking hoard of hovering flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 at mouth level for easy ingestion.

Whether it is parks, trails, by water bodies, I can’t seem to get away from them and always end up eating a mouthful of tiny flies, or at least up in my nostrils.

The worst was when I held my breath over a few steps thinking I made it through a patch, and gasping my way into another horde and engulfing a mother road after. UGH.

  • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    or live in a city where the air quality meter never ever dips below “poor” so them little bastards can’t exist!

  • randombullet@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Some extra protein doesn’t hurt anyone.

    For me, it’s always the salt drying and then drifting down my eyes to make them water

    • dreikelvin@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      so much this yes. I would love to trade more flies in my nostrils with that burning salty drip in your eyes

  • ijon_the_human@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ohhh yes. Mouth, eyes, lungs – they get everywhere.

    Sometimes when I get home my face is dappled with them as they stick to my sweaty skin :)

    Before the flies however, if you live in a northern city, there’s the dusty air in the couple of weeks after the snow has melted and they haven’t washed the roads yet. Add pollen to that and your lungs soon start to feel like your a regular smoker.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Running isn’t bs, my tiny ass groin muscle that won’t strengthen and stop pulling that is stopping me from running is bs xD I wish I was inhaling flies rather than not running.