Do you get nasal drainage in the cold...

[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!

[giuliagoolia]

Not only does my nose run, but my eyes tear when it gets cold....I absolutely loathe it!

It doesn't matter if I'm walking, biking or running. I look like I'm having some emotional break down, and I always get weird looks from people.

Unfortunately, I haven't found anything to stop it, just slow it down a little.