If you’re exerting yourself at all, you pretty much have to mouth breathe. The way I avoid gobbling up any flying insects is to keep my head down while breathing in. It’s surprisingly effective.
Slightly related, my son once had a bee go up his nose while we were out cycling. I say only slightly related because he wasn’t actually going that fast; he was only about 8. He stopped suddenly, complaining about something going up his nose. Neither of us realised what had actually happened until he coughed up a still-squirming bee in a pool of phlegm.
If you’re exerting yourself at all, you pretty much have to mouth breathe. The way I avoid gobbling up any flying insects is to keep my head down while breathing in. It’s surprisingly effective.
Slightly related, my son once had a bee go up his nose while we were out cycling. I say only slightly related because he wasn’t actually going that fast; he was only about 8. He stopped suddenly, complaining about something going up his nose. Neither of us realised what had actually happened until he coughed up a still-squirming bee in a pool of phlegm.
That’s a nasty story but thanks for sharing. Glad he didn’t get stung in the sinuses. I can’t imagine how much that would have hurt.
Hopefully our stories help people understand the risk of bugs when biking.
Yeah if I get super winded I do like a very small mouth opening. But mostly try to keep that closed.
I also, luckily, wear big glasses and have had quite a few bugs smack against them.
I don’t know what the solution is since wearing a face shield is super hot and can fog up.