Winter Trail Running Suggestions
Lose the treadmill & find a trail for running.
The Trailsnet guest post for this week is from Gary. Gary has some great suggestions for you trail runners who forsake the indoor gym treadmills and brave the cold weather to hit the trails all year long.
Today I’d like to talk to you about cold weather running and how you prepare for it. If you’re new to running, it’s always difficult to decide or choose proper gear and what you’re going to wear. If it’s winter then you need to think about is wearing layers.
Technical Running Clothes
You also need to think about wearing technical material. So you go to your local sporting goods store or running shop and they’ll definitely have a lot of advice for you. They’ll have a lot of ideas and different things that you can wear.
I know that, for example, you get a brand like Adidas and they have a series called ClimaWarm, which is kind of warm weather technical gear. Definitely wear some layers. A jacket is necessary.
Running tights, maybe something else over them. You’re often going to want to wear a hat, and you’re also definitely going to want to wear gloves. You’re going to wear running gloves, for sure. And depending where you are and how cold it is, you might even need, like, a balaclava, so it’s something to cover your face.
You can get specific running balaclavas made out of, like, a kind of technical material. Again, go to your local running shop, ask some questions about that, they’ll know. Also, if you get a magazine like Runners’ World or Canadian Running, they often have winter gear guides that can really help you out. And be careful guys, remember. Icy roads, like I’m dealing with now. I’m having trouble walking on this. If it’s too icy, you might even get something.
In conclusion
It’s often difficult to know what to wear when you do winter running, but there’s a few ideas for you. And be safe, of course. And remember too, in the winter time, you know, you’ve got a good chance of slipping and falling, which is something that doesn’t happen in the summer time so again, be careful.
So there you go guys. Running in the winter. With a little bit of preparation and having the right running clothes running in the winter isn’t really as difficult as it seems. The hardest part is usually getting up out of your warm bed in the mornings when it’s freezing cold outside! But I always find once you are outside and running at a good pace you soon warm up, and the adrenaline rush is always worth it!
Gary has been a personal trainer and fitness instructor for the last five years and has recently open podplus-shop.co.uk a technical running clothing and shoe store by runners, for runners.
