Sunburn

[Big IV]

I've been running, riding, and commuting all year.  This weekend was the first time I was able to ride in the sunshine all day without a jacket. It was the first pretty day to ride. really pretty day.
I forgot the sunscreen, and now it shows.  My face is flushed red to match the top of my arms.  I can feel the burn.
Time for more alhoe vera goop.
I'm fair skinned. I don't tan. I just burn. I try to wear long sleeve shirts and sunscreen to take care of myself, but I do occasionally forget.  I need to pay more attention to that this year.

[junior]

did you get the coon eyes too? 

[Big IV]

My eyes aren't too bad raccooned. My face isn't as bad as my neck and arms. I do have that white-forehead because of the helmet. That's always attractive.
I don't tan. 
I just go from shades of red back to this dull light pink.
I did have on a long sleeve shirt on Sunday. Ofcourse I kept pushing up the sleeves, so that probably wasn't doing any good.

[junior]

take zink pills.it will help with the tan

[Gryphon]

You have my full sympathies.  Forgetting the sunscreen is definitely a bad thing when you are "pigment challenged" like a lot of my family.  I can tan a bit, if I start working on it in February or March and stay with at least an SPF 30.  My family are Scots and apparently sunshine isn't part of the heritage.   

[Varmintmist]

Scotch Irish can make whiskey, but we dont tan.

I just turn deeper shades of red over the summer.  I like to think of it as a single malt progression, going from a Highland to a Isley over time.

One of the reasons that I dont mind wearing a jacket all year is because if I dont, the heat and pain I will be in later seems to drown out the sweat I put out at stop lights.

[Daniel Meyer]

Ahhhh....summer's coming...

I can feel it...