Joanne Smith lost her glasses in heavy rain during a run, and the resulting visual stress triggered a migraine that stopped her cold. Other runners in her group chat admitted they'd had migraines during races too, but nobody talked about it.
In fact, there's a lot of things that are very common that until you get talking about, you don't realise. Not even talking about stomachs, but even this week, going back to the challenges that I had this weekend with the, with the raining, because it was just raining again so bad that my glasses were wet again, and I had no other choice but to abandon the glasses. And what happens every time I abandon the glasses, the light, because of my visual stress, gets to me, and then I end up with a migraine. And that's That's what happened again. So I realized that some— I just, just by coincidence, the day later I'd read in one of the group chats that someone had had a similar issue where they'd been suffering migraine and they'd not been able to continue with the race and they were disappointed with that. And I just, I thought, all these years that I've been chatting with runners and, and no one's ever once mentioned suffering with migraine. And then just lately, um, it started a right conversation up. So
