Do you spit when you run? Me too. It's strange, if I'm in the gym on a treadmill I never (thank goodness) feel the need for a good spit. Once I'm out on the road though I'm at it all the time! Must be something to do with fresh air or pollen or something.

Nope... I don't. But that's an interesting point about not needing to when running on the dreadmill. Therefore there shouldn't be any need to while running outside

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Can`t be many who don`t have the odd gob during a run.

Just a matter of being a bit discrete about it surely..............

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I'd have thought so too but I still feel the need when outside.

Same for me. On the treadmill there is no need, but on the road i need to about once every 2 miles or so.

I don't like doing it, or seeing other people doing it so i try and do it when noone is about. Taking a drink on a run would help i reckon though, i bought one of those water bottles shaped like a sort of doughnut yesterday so i'll have to try it.

I'll quite happily have a little spit to the side of the road if needs be... same with a build-up of snot in me schnoz

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but what about when you're running?

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Don't spit, but like richard I do use a docker's hankie when running.

Why does the body produce so much snot?:eek:

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swim, cycle, run, sit down and have a cuppa

I don't spit don't even get the urge

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no spitting or urges twinks and a bad back (improving i hasten to add )you poor thing

aaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!

Do you require moderating?

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I spit all the time when I'm running. Probably every 100/200m.
There are big differences between dreadmill running and proper (*ouch*) running. The air outside is [1]: usually colder, which stimulates salivary glands and sinuses, and [2]: the air is moving, which again, increases the rate at which the above glands produce their respective, er, secretions.
I'm unfortunate enough to suffer from exercise-induced rhinitis and something called post-nasal drip, which means that not only does my nose run (faster than I do), the excess snot flows down the back of my throat. If I don't clear my throat sufficiently or effectively enough, it can sometimes lead to me choking and retching. Hence my apparent overzealousness in clearing my mouth and throat.

Apologies for the words "secretions", "snot", and "retching"; but they were essential to the plot.

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Probably!

no wonder you don't take a drink out with you.....

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memo to self don't go running in the north east :eek: