Do you get nasal drainage in the cold...

[Miranda]

Confession to the snot rocket community at large... I have never done it before.

I'm drugged up year round on asthma and allergy meds that really dry things up. I still get drainage though.

Heads up on taking any drugs as asked... they can make you loopy/dizzy as a side effect. Be sure you know how it affects you before you get on the road. I've had a couple wig out experiences before when switching meds. Errr, not so good.

What if you snot on yourself? Just let it freeze up? Slimes down your garments? My jackets are black... snot is light... Pardon me, I'm having snot rocket stress.

[Grog]

I'm drugged up year round on asthma and allergy meds that really dry things up. I still get drainage though.

Year-round, really? I think I would be weary of using that stuff in significant quantities. As you mention, it's pretty potent medicine and I wonder what the adverse effects are in the long term...

What if you snot on yourself? Just let it freeze up? Slimes down your garments? My jackets are black... snot is light... Pardon me, I'm having snot rocket stress.

The snot police is beamed up out of nowhere to arrest you and drag you to the snot cell!!!

Just kidding, nothing happens, really, except that you wash your gear perhaps more often than not. I used to be unable to do it. Then I could do it but just on women-only rides. Now I just decided not to be so self-conscious anymore. If I swallow the stuff it's going to make me sick pretty fast. And I'm too busy riding/running to stop and gently blow my nose (which would quickly go raw anyway). So whatever...

[Trigress]

What if you snot on yourself? Just let it freeze up? Slimes down your garments? My jackets are black... snot is light... Pardon me, I'm having snot rocket stress.

Rub it in with your glove, then wash your gear afterwards...

I seriously believe that most of the dehydration I experience during training (year round!) is due to nasal drainage, I mean the amounts of snot is unbelievable!

[Geonz]

Yea, me too... I figure I lose 10 pounds a year to the streets and my left shoulder. I know I'm sick if the consistency doesn't lend itself to good launches.

[Aint Doody]

Oooh, Geonz! Me, too. I want it to be the right consistency to travel well off to the side.

[sundial]

As an experiment, I used my sinus rinse thingy before I rode. It cut down on some of the runny nose stuff, but not all. Guess it's just one of those inconveniences of cycling in cold weather.

[elk]

OK who's gonna teach me????

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Blowing your nose a lot, even one nostril at a time, will encourage your nose to immediately produce more mucous secretions in order to protect the delicate tissues from the 'assault'. It can create a spiraling cycle of blowing and more copious nose running and more blowing. People who blow their noses a lot produce way more mucous than people who just sniffle it in. Doctors say it's much better on the sinuses to just sniff it in and swallow. After a while of this, the mucous secretions decrease to more normal levels because you are not blowing all the time. The end result is that any nausea you might experience from swallowing a lot of mucous will become less likely when you don't produce as much watery mucous. You also won't get so dehydrated from ridding your body of moisture like many are complaining about.
My nose runs a lot in the cold on my bike, I sniff it in and it never becomes huge amounts, just watery annoyance.

I know many of you will argue with this concept and don't accept it. That's fine too- just keep blowing your brains out!