Running with long hair. What options do I have?

my hair lasted slightly longer than my running career.

Slightly

Nobody is questioning your latent homosexuality.

You asked for suggestions now you got it.

Tie your hair in a bun.

You know you're no Tom Beyers.

Have fun!

My hair is quite a bit longer than yours. Usually just leave it untied. For important races it is braided.

1) I'm not gay

2) I appreciate the suggestions and followed the headband advice

3) If you cared to read you would have realize a bun doesn't work anymore

4) Tom who?

Long Haired Guy wrote:

Any of you here have medium or long hair? I've been growing mine out for the past 33 months and it's at 40/42 cm or so (16/17 inches).

At first I would bun it (like jager pretty much) and it was pretty stable. But after the 10 inch mark it became pretty much impossible to tame it with the bun (it falls after 1 minute or so).

My hair is very wavy and thick as well and I'm not going to stretch it before every run just for the sake of having a perfect ponytail or whatever.

Any options beside running with it completely loose? (that's how I have run for the last 5 months) It's fine against the wind, but slightly annoying if the tailwind is too strong. Would braids put too much pressure on the roots?

I'm not cutting it anytime soon.

uh, ever heard of Jordan Hasay?

Somehow, 50+% of the running population figured out what to do with their long hair without having to ask letsrun. Sigh.

John utah wrote:

2 options wrote:

Your two options

1) cut it

2) look gay

Bjorn Borg

Vikings

Jesus

All long hair

None are gay

All are awesome

(One a bit more than the others)

Urhmmm, actually Jesus was likely to be gay....

gloria wrote:

Go for some corn rolls?

Do you have a shop that caters to blacks? Go there, they'll know what to do.

"corn rolls"?

did you mean "cornhole"- I hope so (I love rimming and pegging both)-- or

"corn row" like this former POTUS?

John utah wrote:

...

Jesus

All long hair

None are gay

You sure?

Here 'ya go

How I do my Liberty Spike Mohawk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkx_wuJJZmM

Excuse me wrote:

2 options wrote:

Your two options

1) cut it

2) look gay

Excuse me but gay guys don't typically wear their hair long. That's a straight guy thing.

He's talking about head hair, not nether regions.

gloria wrote:

Go for some corn rolls?

Do you have a shop that caters to blacks? Go there, they'll know what to do.

This is about hair, not food.

Long Haired Guy wrote:

Any of you here have medium or long hair? I've been growing mine out for the past 33 months and it's at 40/42 cm or so (16/17 inches).

At first I would bun it (like jager pretty much) and it was pretty stable. But after the 10 inch mark it became pretty much impossible to tame it with the bun (it falls after 1 minute or so).

My hair is very wavy and thick as well and I'm not going to stretch it before every run just for the sake of having a perfect ponytail or whatever.

Any options beside running with it completely loose? (that's how I have run for the last 5 months) It's fine against the wind, but slightly annoying if the tailwind is too strong. Would braids put too much pressure on the roots?

I'm not cutting it anytime soon.

I'm a woman with very long hair and run every day and it takes me like 5 seconds to put it in a pony tail or maybe 45seconds to plait it. Either work. Both are easy and I have long, thick, wavy hair. In fact its so easy, I can't think why anyone would go to the trouble of posting about it to the internet and making it into an issue. I also swim, again without any issues.

I have never needed to do a bun or run with it loose. It never gets in my eyes or does this weird stretching thing you talk about (is that even possible?). I don't need any hair products and let it dry naturally.

Your thread actually confirms my suspicion that there is a special species of man out there who likes to draw attention to his appearance with his hair, make a big fuss about "difficult" it is to maintain and call himself a hipster. You probably have got pretty pictures painted on your skin too I'm guessing (sorry, tattoos).

Concentrate on running fast and training well, not your hair.

A bun might hold on if you run 8:00 mile pace, but I run closer to 6:30 on my long runs.

We both air dry it, isn't it fascinating? Maybe we could exchange hair care tips someday.

Baldness will probably meet me at some point, so might as well rock it while I can don't you agree? I don't make a fuss about how hard it is to maintain it

(it's not that hard). You'd enjoy it probably (hell, for sure!).

Fun fact, I can appreciate a tattoo if it's well done and is not done for the sake of having one, but wouldn't actually do one myself.

I also don't have a beard an don't live in a trailer (but it might not be as bad as some people make it sound).

Cheers.

Get a haircut you hippie.

Long Haired Guy wrote:

I'll try to invest on some quality headbands then, the kind that Blankenship uses. (here's hoping they don't come with the 4th place curse)

The baseball hat idea coupled with some elastics also sounds viable.

Thanks folks!

So, you had to go online, and ask a bunch of probable yahoos what they think about how to control your long hair?

Do you have to ask someone what to wear in the morning?

Does your mommy make your breakfast?

I'm growing my hair out. I'll be 42 on Monday and I still have a good head of hair so I might as well enjoy it. I'm going to be growing it out for awhile. Maybe I'll look this thread up in a couple years.