People who wear perfume at the gym

I was just at the gym to run a quick 5K and get my workout in. About 1.5km into my run a girl took up the treadmill next to me. Obviously that didn‘t bother me in the slightest, until I took my next inhale.

My nose was filled with this heavy, sickly sweet scent that coated the entire inside of my nostrils and the back of my throat. Yes, that girl lathered herself in tons of perfume before coming to the gym.

It turned my entire run into an absolute nightmare. My breathing which had been nice and controlled started becoming ragged. The perfume completely irritated my airways and made it hard to breathe. I was coughing regularly trying to catch my breath and this 5K felt double as long.

It just really annoys me. You use perfume in a closed room where people will be breathing heavily (especially in the cardio section!) and sweating. You are not hiding the smell of your sweat with the perfume, in fact it gets mixed into a disgusting mixture of the two. I can‘t even imagine how someone with asthma would feel. All you do is irritate people's airways.