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TrawaGraduate10
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My face gets so red when running! I hate it. I did parkrun this morning and after finish I noticed people were looking at me. Nothing too bad but makes you realise that something's not right. When I got to the car I noticed my horribly red face😡 it happens every time when I run. Will it ever go away? Probably not but I guess I need a moan...

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Tasha99Graduate10

I bet people weren’t looking at you. Are you overthinking it? Everyone is a mess at the end of parkrun. Well lots of people anyway.

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Buddy34Graduate10

I had the red face also at the end of parkrun today , so snap. I've noticed anything above say 1 or 2 degrees it does it . I didn't have any last month running in -4 . Be proud of your beetroot face as I call it , you've earned it 😡😡

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TrawaGraduate10 in reply toBuddy34

That's great way of looking at this!! Hehe

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IrishprincessGraduate10

It’s not horrible, it’s awesome 🏃‍♀️💪 It shows you’ve worked your body hard and what’s wrong with that? I always get a crimson face after running or other exercise and I’ve grown to love it now 🥵 It means I’ve used my body well and I wear it with a big smile. There are lots of us about here so we’re a special club. Be proud and treat it as your badge of honour 🙂

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GrannyhugsGraduate10

I suffer from extreme cold hands when running, so bad I cant open/drive car home, today's solution - sat in cafe with freezing hands cooling hot face, hot face heating freezing hands. Perfect, worked far better than the Dyson hand driver I tried 1st🤣

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TrawaGraduate10 in reply toGrannyhugs

That's a good use of hot face😂

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JaoJaoGraduate10

Everyone has it xx

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TrawaGraduate10 in reply toJaoJao

I politely disagree based on observation 😂

I also get this with any exercise apart from yoga. I thought it was just me! 🤪I always look dreadful yet I see the posts of others looking so fresh after their ParkRun meet ups!!!

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Dexy5Graduate10 in reply to

Sometimes we take the photos before the run 😂😂

in reply toDexy5

Oh that makes me feel a bit better. 😀

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Dexy5Graduate10 in reply to

Red face means you are making an effort 😃

in reply toDexy5

Indeed I am 🥵 😀

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LeosmitGraduate1060minGraduate

I get a total 🍅 face but have a weird pure white circle around my gob... ain’t pretty. But, like Buddy34, this only happens above 2 degrees!! That’s why I enjoy doing the run when it’s colder! But I was proud of my red face today - it was 8 degrees and I found w8d1 hard going.... but I did it and the red face to prove it!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅

in reply toLeosmit

How funny, I also get that but didn’t put it in my earlier comment as I thought it was just a weird thing that happens to me. I love running in this cooler weather as I am still boiling hot!

Congratulations on your run.

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LeosmitGraduate1060minGraduate in reply to

You mean you get the white bit around your mouth? 😂 that’s hilarious!! There’s two of us!

in reply toLeosmit

Thank goodness I’m not alone. I’ve always been like this, it’s so odd😂

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LeosmitGraduate1060minGraduate in reply to

We’ll need to form a sub-group of the beetroot face support group: the partial beetroot face support group.

in reply toLeosmit

🤣🤣

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TrawaGraduate10

Thank you Folks! It makes me feel better when I look at the red face as my well deserved 'badge of honour'! 😍🥵🥰

Have not considered it in this way and it totally changes the perspective!

I'm soon heading to junior parkrun with my daughter and I'm sure it will make her laugh when I say it to her!

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GrannyhugsGraduate10 in reply toTrawa

Far better red from running than red from sitting on the couch overheating 🥴 enjoy junior park run.

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Runcat77Graduate10

That always happens to me too!

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davelinksGraduate10

It happens to my wife, the timekeeper at Parkrun commented on it (your face ain't arf red!) There's nothing wrong with getting red — or even fuschia — in the face. When you exercise, capillaries in your face and throughout your body dilate and blood flows through them in an effort to move the heat your body is generating to the skin's surface, where it can be radiated off.

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