Between John’s tennis ball and your tape, that should do it! I’ll research neti pots. I do think that I breathe thru my nose at night except when I have a sinus blocked by a cold.
10,000 anecdotes = 1 statistic (which immdiately leads an undisciplined imagination to HL Mencken’s jibe, “One belly laugh is worth 10,000 syllogisms”). Patrick Moore, who last punched someone in about 1974. On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM Chris Halasz <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick > > More anecdotal: having bone spurs and deviated septum (too many fights as > the smallest kid in class, too many summers in the Bronx), I was > recommended to use a neti pot years ago, and good grief, the stuff that > came out. Maybe that cleared the nasal passages for me. > > And then more anecdotal: since I've taped my mouth for sleep, and > mouth-closed breathing as a practice, my nasal passages just seem more > open. Fewer head colds, too. Anecdotal! > > - Chris > > On Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 5:01:51 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Update, 03.19.2026: Not much luck so far in adapting to nose breathing. I >> suppose it’s because I always push harder than I can accommodate by very >> unaccustomed nose breathing, but this early afternoon, even on the flats, >> even with a NW tailwind heading South, I found myself forced to mouth >> breathe because I felt that I was suffocating when nose breathing. And I >> was trying to take it easy. >> >> Sure, fixed gear, but even so, again, with moderate tail wind and >> conscientious effort to pedal slow. >> >> On the return, even moving to the 19t cog/68” gear, and — again — trying >> to take it easy, I could not maintain nose breathing. >> >> Advice? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6d7108b4-1b18-44d2-83c6-f5b660d05571n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6d7108b4-1b18-44d2-83c6-f5b660d05571n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgug2i5PDiT%3Dch3LyPpNRA8PZwtoUVjQaaC_GUp-owvP%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
