runny nose

[postiechic]

ok...here's sumthin different.
You girls that cycle in the winter...in the really cold parts of the globe....do any of you have a problem from an eternally runny nose from the cold?
Not only do I cycle when it's cold, but I also work outside....and my nose runs..or drips...just enuff to be effin annoying. Now, I'm wondering if there are any solutions to the cold weather runny nose?

[Kitsune06]

Probably not the greatest idea, but I tend to do the guy thing and blow it into the grass if I'm working alone and not around gentlefolk.

Otherwise, the terry on the thumbs of your bike gloves is good for this, but wash your gloves after to prevent salt crustying and general grossness.

[Grog]

Now, I'm wondering if there are any solutions to the cold weather runny nose?

Snot rockets.

I'm with Kitsune on this.

Any aerobic exercise that gets my heart beating gets my nose running. I now accept it as a fact of life...

[Selkie]

Anytime the temp drops below 55 degrees, my sinuses became a booger factory. I'm, therefore, a snot rocket queen.

[run it, ride it]

It will annoy the bejesus out of your coworkers if you just keep sniffling every .5 seconds. At all costs, avoid this situation.

Wear something that covers your nose and mouth when you're on the bike and let the snot river do what it will. No one can see you, and it won't tickle once it's everywhere. It will just blend into the sweat and you won't notice it. Once the whole aparatus is saturated, it will even conveniently freeze solid in place!

Once you take the thing off and clean up as best you can, I suggest a combination of snot rockets and (gentle) glove-wiping.

BUT NOT EXCESSIVE SNIFFLING! Am I the only one who goes postal from this noise?

[KnottedYet]

I have tried to snot-rocket, but the results are less than satisfactory. So I carry a big ol' bandana (several, actually) and honk my way to happiness.

[postiechic]

Am I the only one who goes postal from this noise?

you girls crack me up
nope...I can't stand sniffing either...kids are great when it comes to annoying you to death with sniffing...ugh.
I'm lucky enuff to not have coworkers aroud me when i'm outside. Anyways..I just make sure I got a hanky or 2 at hand.
I don't reckon I'd be much good at snot rockets either!

[DebW]

I have tried to snot-rocket, but the results are less than satisfactory. So I carry a big ol' bandana (several, actually) and honk my way to happiness.

I'm in the bandana camp. And somehow it seldom stays completely in my pocket (either my jersey or my dockers at work), so I'm usually riding or walking around with flapping red fabric trailing behind me.

[Dogmama]

Caution - topic drift ahead...

I swear, this is the only forum where we can discuss these things. I was surfing a very serious 2%-body-fat-male-cycling forum and the topics were things like: "The difference between the Campy 2004 shifters and the Shimano 2003 shifters in hills greater than 8% grade when moving into a headwind at 86 degrees...."

I logged onto TE and the first new topic I saw was:

"I ate a bug"

I knew I was home!

[pattysue]

Rub petroleuim jelly on your nose that usually will stop the runny nose in the winter, but I don't know about during the summer.

[Kano]

Oh ladies, DH loves this forum! When I share new stuff with him, you all make him smile brightly, and laugh, and that's all good!

(I bet he can do snot rockets. Me, I'd likely have failure after failure after failure....)

Karen in Boise

[postiechic]

gave up on wiping me nose today.....it's been raining non stop all day...so may as well just let the snot mix with the rain