Vaseline on a stick.

We were watching the 35,000 runners in the Country Music Marathon today, winding through the streets of midtown and downtown Nashville. Two memorable things:1. This being Nashville, there were live musical acts scattered along the route.2. And you know how they hand cups of water to runners? Well, one woman was handing out tongue depressors, each one with an end covered with a glob of cloudy goo. I asked what it was. Vaseline, she said. For all those parts that chafe in a long run.