Am I the only dork.. (Read 336 times)

who wears a headband when running?   I wore them in the early 80s when I did a little bit of running for triathlon training, and they seemed very common then.

This quote:   "Awesome 80's hairstyles with headbands"  from this thread:   http://www.runningahead.com/forums/post/1851841796804753943099b8a17b3082#focus

got me to thinking how silly I must look out there running.  I started looking around at some race photos from currents races I have been in and sure enough, I hardly see any headbands.  I see a few hairbands that keep the hair pulled back, but no headbands across the forehead.   If you don't wear a headband how do you keep the sweat out of your eyes??  Do ballcaps serve that purpose?  I wonder if Joan Samuelson started the ballcap trend in the 84 Olympics...

I wear them...always.  Because I can't put sunblock on my forehead without it sweating into my eyes.  And under a bike helmet I always wear a headband or Buff, too.

regular baseball caps wont do much to keep sweat out of your eyes, but yes the ones designed for running will. I have one cap by Sweat..Caps? Cant find it at the moment and another by UA (heatgear) both meant to keep sweat out, but still some gets in my eyes. Do what you want and if it works for you, keep doing it. Ive found that at times I was the minority. Maybe someone else wants to try to do something "outside the box" too. You could be their inspiration.

Also, there is something subtly gratifying about being the minority of one. I ran a local 5k, and was strolling about after the run to come up behind a woman saying, "... that didn't bother me. You know what did, that barefoot guy..." - turns out she felt she should be able to beat me. To her credit however, she was the fastest woman, just not faster than me.

I run with a ballcap, but I have running ballcaps which have the built-in sweatband. (My hats are from Running Room.)

While I run in a visor here in swfl, that is entirely to keep either the sun or a torrential down pour out of my eyes. Sweat or light to moderate rain never seems to bother me or my eyes. Other than a knit cap on sub 50 days (rare now but much more common in my years of running in New England), I never wear anything that covers my head. I still remember wearing a bandana on a hot summer day about 30 yrs ago, overheating and wondering what was wrong with me. Once I took it off, I was good to go. When I see people now running with a hat, and appearing to struggle, I want to yell at them to take the damn thing off.

But, to the original point, I'm not sure about the efficacy of a sweat band, sweat in the eyes just doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe we're designed that way since, after all, sweating is how humans keep cool?

I say it's better to be a dork in a headband than a d'bag in a visor.

(no offense, Jaybar, I'm certain you only wear yours for functional reasons and it isn't accompanied by unzipped spandex)

Headband instead of the hat. To old to give 2 sh#ts how it looks. Plus, it does keep the sweat out of my eyes. Hat is to hot, never did the sun visor. Headband just works, plus nice to be able to soak in water and get even more cooling when it's really warm.