I did it!

[CorsairMac]

I don't know how we women are supposed to deal with that. The older I get, the worse it gets. Literally, even on a 50 degree day, I take off my helmet and my hair is dripping! It's so embarrassing! I'm really self-conscious of it, so then I tend to not make eye contact w/anyone. In fact, that had driven me out of the gym for a little while. At the rate I'm going, I will be dripping after a nice little walk in the park!

Don't ever be embarrassed by who you are hun. I'm the same way, by the time I get to work my hair is soaked and even during the ride I'll have sweat dripping off me; and on long rides - God only knows what I smell like at the end! I figure it just shows I'm working out! If anyone has a problem with it, tell them to go for a ride with you and see what They look like when ya'll get done!!!

[slinkedog]

Yup, I'm a sweat-maven, too. And my face gets all red, even if I haven't worked that hard. I've always gotten the red face, even as a kid, but the sweating has definitely gotten worse, er, more pronounced, with age. When I ride inside, I keep a hand towel over the handlebars to wipe off with and to protect my headset, even though it is sealed.

[snapdragen]

Yay! Another sweaty red faced woman! We can be the tomato sisters slinke! I've had people stop me and ask if I'm OK, or if I'm horribly sunburned, am I about to keel over...... A trainer I used to work with stopped asking about my heart rate and just gaged how hard I was working by my face color!

[MomOnBike]

Yet another tomato face here. I can turn alarming shades of red. Not attractive, but I just avoid looking in the mirror when I'm hot.

(Mirror, mirror on the wall
Who's the reddest-faced of them all?)