Chest pain when running

I'm a 23/yr male, 6'1", 170 lbs, nonsmoker, no drugs, drink rarely. I work with kids in an After School Program and yesterday we went outside and it was chilly (I live in Boston), and we played a game where I had to go from standstill to sprint, and I had some fairly severe chest pain where I couldn't run, and then when I rested it went away in a little while.

This usually happens in the spring as I usually haven't jogged all winter and then I start exercising again... usually the chest pain goes away after a month or two of jogging, and it also helps considerably if I raise my arms over my head. The only condition I've ever been diagnosed with is slightly high cholesterol (180'ish).

The weird thing is when we're in the gym running around I usually don't have a problem with it. Any thoughts?

Hi windexian welcome to the forum I hope you will like it here.

I think you might have an allergy that affects directly to your heart. But in order to be sure you will have to undergo special allergy tests. Have you done so?

My 10 year old plays soccer and we are experiencing the same exact problem. She does not want to get tested for allergies and she only has the problem outside. Not inside in the winter. Why would allergies make her chest hurt. She has not shortness of breath??

Well, because I think that if indoors this problem doesn't happen it must have to do something with outdoors which is why I thought about having an allergy test. I didn't say it might be the cause but it is a good thing to get this possibility checked.
Allergy tests are no "big deal" at all. Why would you daughter object?

Hey..I get the same thing when I'm running...but it only occurs a few minutes after I start jogging outside...when I get running and going for a bit, breathing in and out for a while....and then it ceases after about 5-8 minutes of painful jogging.

I do not get this in the gym...

I am thinking that it has something to simply do with the fact that you're breathing in air from outside...in the gym you're breathing in stale gym air...and it's most likely WARMER and thus cold air isn't going into ur lungs? My chest kind of burns when it happens and it happens every time I run outside.

I know many other people who's chests hurt so I don't think it's abnormal. I don't think it's allergies at all...I just think it's maybe for someone who's not in shape? I am in shape with everything but running.

Do you still go on running outside then if your lungs are hurting? Perhaps it's a 'sign' that you should stop doing that because pain seldom appears without a reason (like in telling you to either stop what you're doing or get it checked out and cured).