Running in the Cold Weather Safety Tips & Ideas

Follow Cold Weather Running Tips - How to Follow Cold Weather Running Tips?

Upon seeing the title of this post, the following may have crossed your mind:

“What on earth is a girl from Texas doing writing a post about cold-weather running?”

How to make Cold-Weather running fun:

• If you’re going to run in the morning, set out your clothes next to your bed the night before.  You can even get dressed in bed, while you’re still under the covers.
• Become good friends with weather.com.  Don’t just pay attention to the actual predicted temperature, look at the “feels like” temperature too.
• Know what works for YOU.  Those thermal running gloves are supposedly the best for keeping one’s fingers toasty.  But for me, waterproof mittens work much better. My fingers aren’t separated in the mittens, so they stay nice and warm.
• Figure out the absolute coldest temperature at which running no longer becomes fun for you.  For me, that temp is “feels like 5, with 28mph or higher winds” so if it’s going to be uglier than that, I plan to work out indoors, later in the day, or take a rest day.  Luckily for me, it very rarely gets that cold and windy (at the same time) here.

More tips for fun running:

How to get out of a Running Rut

And now I’m going to ask YOU all for suggestions.  That way, we can help each other to stay warm… I need help too!  Even if you’re not a runner, please still feel free to chime in: What are your tips/tricks for staying warm in the cold winters?