Running and Your Face

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This is important subject as your face can determine how much money you make,

where you live, who you date and marry, and how you're treated in general.

Is this why you now have to reach us through the nuisance of a "posting google?" No real ISP wants
you anymore, horseface?

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This is important subject

The only important thing for YOU to do is to get a life. Is ALL of your self-esteem derived from
your fantasy that you USED to look like someone we've all never heard of?

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This is important subject as your face can determine how much money you make, where you live, who
you date and marry, and how you're treated in general.

You are 39 years old. If you do not yet have a wife, a job, and a house, you probably never will. It
is also likely that your prematurely aged face has nothing to do with it.

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This is important subject

The only important thing for YOU to do is to get a life. Is ALL of your self-esteem derived from
your fantasy that you USED to look like someone we've all never heard of?

Sorry folks. It's a legitimate question. If it were true that running could have a negative effect
on your physical appearance it is something that people should know. Face it, if you're attractive
you are given better treatment in this world. It's a fact that has been proven by studies. Most
people if given the choice: Would you want to look beautiful or ugly or just average? Most would
choose beautiful. Many runners (men and women alike) run to look good. Looks are important. Yes I
agree it shouldn't be your main focus or even a focus at all but it's really nice to have people
treat you well. So really does anyone think running can make your face less attractive?

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This is important subject as your face can determine how much money you make,

where you live, who you date and marry, and how you're treated in general.

Is this why you now have to reach us through the nuisance of a "posting google?" No real ISP wants
you anymore, horseface?

I got a good laugh out of that. But I won't be laughing the next time I'm out and some woman starts
to get friendly with me then sees my double chin up close (my body is trim and toned with no fat)and
says she's got to go.

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So really does anyone think running can make your face less attractive?

[censored] no. Use sun block and stay hydrated in the summer. Don't let you face get frostbit in the
winter. If any facial problems show up consult your parents not the sport.

--
Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" [email hidden]

Have you run outside a lot? I've only just started running and don't know a whole lot about it, but
I do know a lot about skin. 16 years of running outside without wearing a strong sunblock will age
your skin a lot faster than the rest of your body- you've probably covered up your body in winter,
and possibly sometimes in summer, but your face has been exposed the whole time. UV damage accounts
for a significantly large proportion of ageing skin. It's probably not as bad as you think it is,
but try wearing sunblock from now on and testing out some skincare products. You can't do much about
the double chin unless you don't mind paying for surgery, but some good skincare products might take
care of the other problems. Also look at your diet, that can wreak havoc with your skin too. I'm
sure as a runner you get plenty of water, and plenty fruit and veg can take years off. I'm of the
opinion that if running made your face sag, it would make other areas do that as well - but as I
said, I dont know a whole lot about running so maybe someone else could answer. Hope this helps,

Katy M

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I posted a message yesterday concerning aging and running but I was not specific enough. I started
running at 23. My face looked like Richard Marx (the singer) and was told by lots of people that I
looked so much younger than most people my age. Now, after running 20-25 miles a week for 16
years, my face looks like King Fahd's. It's kind of bloated and sagging and old looking. It's not
windswept or sun dried or anything. My body looks like a teenager's body. My friends face's look
older now but not near what I do. My body looks 20 years younger. Does anyone think running did
this to my face and body? This is important subject as your face can determine how much money you
make, where you live, who you date and marry, and how you're treated in general. If it's true that
running can cause this some people may not want to take up running. Personally I have correspond
with my clients by phone from home the last 10 years so my income is not effected. But if I had to
meet with people, like with good looking executives, they might not give me the business (although
I might be better looking than I imagine).

I suspect that you wouldn't look so greateven if you hadn't been a runner. Genetics is a big
determining factor in how we age. The women in my mother's family are all young-looking in their
fifties and sixties, even the ones who have been long-time smokers. The women in my dad's family, on
the other hand, wrinkled up young and look older than their years.

Donna, who got her skin from her mother (and ankles, thank goodness :-)

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I posted a message yesterday concerning aging and running but I was not specific enough. I started
running at 23. My face looked like Richard Marx (the singer) and was told by lots of people that I
looked so much younger than most people my age. Now, after running 20-25 miles a week for 16 years,
my face looks like King Fahd's. It's kind of bloated and sagging and old looking. It's not
windswept or sun dried or anything.

OK, stop right there. From time to time, we see people post about their running perhaps having an
effect on their appearance, namely their face. Words like drawn or tight or wrinkled apply here. In
many cases, the root cause is dehydration rather than running per se.

But "bloated"?? This is not consistent at all with running. There are other things that can cause
exactly what you describe, such as a thyroid condition, but so could genetics or being overweight.
Have you had a basic exam (that includes at least a complete blood count) by an MD?

Lyndon "Speed Kills...It kills those that don't have it!" --US Olympic Track Coach Brooks Johnson

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The women in my dad's family, on the other hand, wrinkled up young and look older than
their years.

They must be runners. ;-)

-Phil

Richard Marx? You poor [censored].

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miles a week for 16 years, my face looks like King Fahd's.

OK, I'll bite on the outside chance you are not a troll. A few things come to mind. First, runners
spend a lot of time outside, even when others would not dare to go out. Sure we use sunscreen and
face masks, but not as often as we should, so maybe the weather has played a role.

Second, If you are very lean, which appears to be the case, you will probably appear to be more
wrinkled. A layer of fat under the skin can reduce wrinkling.

Third, how is your hydration? I don't want to start another war here about whether some of us drink
too much (water), but low hydration, which is not uncommon among runners, is very hard on your skin.

Having said all that, I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is
26 (Ithink) and fit and intelligent and good looking, who has been married for a year and a half,
and who has a brand new baby. He is suffering from allopecia ereata (sp?), an auto-immune
disorder from which I also suffer (though "suffer" is probably an exaggeration). Anyway, all
his hair fell out. It may come back, but it is as likely not to.

I asked him how he felt about it and he said that he gets frustrated sometimes when he looks in the
mirror, but things could be so much worse. "You, know, I could be bald from chemo-therapy. I could
be dying. My little boy could be sick."

Good attitude, I say, and one from which we could all take a lesson.

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Having said all that, I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is
26 (Ithink) and fit and intelligent and good looking, who has been married for a year and a half,
and who has a brand new baby. He is suffering from allopecia ereata (sp?), an auto-immune
disorder from which I also suffer (though "suffer" is probably an exaggeration). Anyway, all
his hair fell out. It may come back, but it is as likely not to.

I have alopecia as well. I lose patches of hair from my face, and sometimes head and legs. Wherever
the hair faills out, it looks like it never grew there in the first place.

Every few years I have to get subcutaneous injections of steroids to the affected areas, which makes
"vellus" hair grow at first (like the softer hair on your arms), and it doesn't match the coarser
hair on my face, so it's still detectable.

Eventually it becomes the same, and then the whole pattern repeats itself.

cheers,
--
David (in Hamilton, ON) www.allfalldown.org .

You'll notice the same with "master" runners (over 40) in Runners World magazine. Their faces tend
to look years older than average too.

Its not only your face. You'll soon be noticing the skin on the exposed parts of your arms and legs
will becoming scaly and discolored like someone years older too. Creased leatherneck too.

Runners arent the only people with this issue. I've been seeing a lot the quarterback John Elway on
TV lately with his impending induction in the Hall of Fame. He looks about 15 years older than his
chronological age.