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posted: 5/13/2008 at 8:58 PM |
How do you proctect yourself while running?
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- Anya
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 8:58 PM
modified: 5/13/2008 at 9:03 PM |
Run faster. HTFU. Then run faster. |
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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"Don't give the prick the satisfaction ..."
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"You're a runner, but you're chasing yourself,
feel a hot breath on your shoulder ... "
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 9:00 PM |
Gosh JakeKnight, I'm surprised you didn't just say HTFU! 
Seriously...I haven't found anything to keep the little buggers away.
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 9:03 PM |
Quote from midwest runner on 5/13/2008 at 9:00 PM:Gosh JakeKnight, I'm surprised you didn't just say HTFU! Seriously...I haven't found anything to keep the little buggers away. CC
Fixed. Good call. |
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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Maniac # 965
"Don't give the prick the satisfaction ..."
~ Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway
"You're a runner, but you're chasing yourself,
feel a hot breath on your shoulder ... "
~ DIO, circa 1985
I've got
Balls of Steel!
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 9:11 PM |
In England, Anya are knobbly potatoes...
In New Zealand we call Anya Yams.
That's all I got.
Hope it helps.
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| jlynnbob "HTFU, Kookie's distal tibia"
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 9:11 PM |
Wear a loose fitting top rather than a tighter fitting technical shirt or t-shirt. If they try and bite through the shirt, it is moving and makes it harder to get through the material to hit the skin. This works better if the loose shirt is worn over a tighter shirt. Also, wear a hat and hang a bandana from the under the hat to cover your neck. If it is hot, wet the bandana...it serves to keep them off your neck, don't be afraid to let the bandana cover your ears as well.
Or, run with someone who smells worse than you... |
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 2:27 PM |
| Quote from kooky2003 on 5/13/2008 at 9:11 PM: In England, Anya are knobbly potatoes...
In New Zealand we call Anya Yams.
That's all I got.
Hope it helps.
in russia Anya are hamhocks. ... WTF? |
- Anya
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 7:32 PM |
I think the best advice was from Lynn. I tried running in northern Michigan last summer on dirt roads in the roads and bailed on my run cause the deerflies were driving me bonkers!  |
Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 9:54 PM |
| Or you could be a total dork like me and wear one of those hunting net things over your hat so no-seeums and flies can't get to you. I recently got a Campmore catalouge that showed they also have lightweight no-seeum-proof pants and shirts. I was imagining myself in the whole getup and then thought, "Um. No." |
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 10:19 PM |
| Quote from Sockoni on 5/14/2008 at 9:54 PM: Or you could be a total dork like me and wear one of those hunting net things over your hat so no-seeums and flies can't get to you. I recently got a Campmore catalouge that showed they also have lightweight no-seeum-proof pants and shirts. I was imagining myself in the whole getup and then thought, "Um. No."
What would be even better is running in JUST the netting. |
Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 12:54 PM |
| Quote from Sockoni on 5/14/2008 at 9:54 PM: Or you could be a total dork like me and wear one of those hunting net things over your hat so no-seeums and flies can't get to you. I recently got a Campmore catalouge that showed they also have lightweight no-seeum-proof pants and shirts. I was imagining myself in the whole getup and then thought, "Um. No."
I am looking at those for our trip to Alaska.... I guess the good news is I don't know anyone there.
I have found wearing white, and a white ball cap sprayed with bug dope helps. But I can't handle it when the orbit your head and don't let up. It really freaks me out. |
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 1:29 PM |
I use an oil made by a local farmer called skeeter skedaddle that works pretty well. It isn't nearly as bad for you as deet, works much better, and makes you smell like a hippie. I will put some on my arms, legs and the back of my neck, and will then dry my hands off on my clothes. If I'm not wearing a hat I put it in my hair as well.
Try to avoid wearing white - it will look like a deer's ass and will attract the bugs more than a darker colored shirt would.
Oh, and HTFU. |
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 4:21 PM |
| I really dislike horse flies... |
HOSS
2008 Goals
2 marathons w/1 less than 3:45:00
2 HMw/1 less than 1:41:00
10k less than 46:00 - achieved 45:41
5k less than 22:00
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posted: 5/15/2008 at 4:36 PM |
Quote from HOSS1961 on 5/15/2008 at 4:21 PM:I really dislike horse flies...
Last year while swimming in my cousin's pool, a horsefly bit my youngest on his head. It hurt A LOT and made him bleed so now he never wants to go back to my cousin's house. We've explained that it could happen anywhere but he won't budge on his thinking of how they will be looking for him to come back to that pool.  |
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