I come back from runs with bugs all over my face and neck...

0/10. Go away.

Move! You must live in some kind of insect hellhole!

PortlandXCGirl wrote:

The past few months, I have noticed that I normally get back from runs with 1-3 dead bugs (tiny ones) stuck to my skin that kind of look like this:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/download/48008-18037/image.jpg

I'm not getting bitten or anything but it's just kind of annoying and gross. Is it because I'm running so fast that they get stuck to me while I run? Maybe I should start running at 9 minute pace to see if it helps.

Also no trolls please. Quality responses only.

Your skin is really pasty.

If you all the way to Canada, you're going to end up with a few bugs on the windshield.

Did you just start running in the last few months? Anyone who lives near water where bug hatches occur comes back peppered with blackflies and midges etc.. when it's fly season.

They are trying to bite you but they get stuck to sweat and basically drown it seems.

Wait until you inhale one on a tempo and have it fly around your bronchioles for a while.

I think you should go back to running in the poor neighborhoods at 4:00 p.m. where the sidewalks are getting sprayed by yard sprinklers.

Or spray your own face with PAM non-stick cooking spray--that will make it easier to get the bugs off.

Maybe the bugs are just attracted to your booty.

Seriously, I'm a plant soil & insect sciences major and insects are attracted to smells and moisture. They probably think there's food there because you're smelling so good 😜

Unless this is some pathetic attempt at bragging about your speed, this is a meaningless, pointless post.

PortlandXCGirl wrote:

The past few months, I have noticed that I normally get back from runs with 1-3 dead bugs (tiny ones) stuck to my skin that kind of look like this:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/download/48008-18037/image.jpg

I'm not getting bitten or anything but it's just kind of annoying and gross. Is it because I'm running so fast that they get stuck to me while I run? Maybe I should start running at 9 minute pace to see if it helps.

Also no trolls please. Quality responses only.

Are you running through poor neighborhoods? Maybe this would go away if you could run on trails

These bugs don't come from the outside. They normally reside umm... between your legs. When you run they're irritated by the inner walls of your umm... legs and they come creeping out. I suggest daily cleaning with Vagisil.

Try using your windshield wipers.

The past few months,

Summer brings more bugs.

Especially in these times of climate change.

The bugs are flying around and you just run into them. Bugs aren't geniuses. You are sweating and sticky so the bugs get stuck to your skin. Eventually they just drown in sweat. It happens to me as well. During the worst days I may get hundreds (the flying ants swarm after the first monsoon) and have to spit them out of my mouth and smear them out of my eyes.

This has nothing to do with climate change. Stick with the glaciers melting, aquifers drying up, beetles defoliating forests, coral bleaching, permafrost melting, local extinctions, mistimed migrations, increases in wildfire extent/frequency/severity, and oceans rising. There is no room for meaningless conjecture in the climate change discussion.

Is this Maine or Oregon?

Either way, don't use fruity shampoos and apply DEET , RSP. On cap brim and back of shirt.(worry about the skin cancer later).

BlimeyMate wrote:

Is this Maine or Oregon?

Either way, don't use fruity shampoos and apply DEET , RSP. On cap brim and back of shirt.(worry about the skin cancer later).

DEET doesn't cause these beetles to get in her way while she is running. She's probably just running into them because they are flying clumsily around everywhere around Portland. This could just as easily be specs of dust or ash from a distant forest fire as beetles.

It's Trump's fault.

Yup

1-3 bugs? REALLY? Isn't there a statue you can complain about?