Question:what do people in this type of climate areas do ? Still run outdoors
in winter ? What kind of shoes and clothes ? In very humid weather,
isn't it dangerous ?
I have trouble going to gym more than 1 or 2 times a week. I can't do
serious running without a treadmill at home.
Answer:
I just checked the weeks forecast. It's cold, but nothing exceptional.
Most of them whine about how hot and cold it is, which means that the real
runners have the roads to themselves.
I live near New York City. It gets down to single digits fahrenheit in winter.
Actually, there's a Canadian brand name, Sugoi who make very good winter
clothing. My favourite two brands are Sporthill and Sugoi.
Most of us just wear normal running shoes.
Running in winter is actually fairly comfortable if you dress properly. You
usually a little feel cold for the first mile or so while you warm up but it's
good after that.
Indeed, wunderground.com knows about 5 Ottawas. At the moment, Ottawa
Ontario is warmer than all but one of them, Ottawa West Virginia.
As I write this it is 55F in Ottawa, just about the ideal running
temperature. Shorts and a shirt. Short sleeve or singlet if you're
racing, long sleeve for a slower training run. You're not even into
tights or pants weather yet, let alone unrunnable.
Ottawa poster, your summers are milder than, I daresay, summers for
most of the posters here. NYC is hotter and muggier, and even so we've
got it good compared to Florida and Georgia, and probably the south of
France. Alaska and Finland probably have milder summer weather than
you - but don't whine to them about your winters.
And winters, well, you can dress for the cold. Unless you're talking
super biting bitter fiercely insanely cold, or have some medical
condition with a name, winter cold is a soluble problem.
Of course, nobody's trying to force you to run in the winter. Or the
summer, or at all.
Flock to Mexico for the winters. I'll never forget the observation of
a middle aged Mexican woman in Las Varas, Nayarit, as a group of your
countrymen and -women, escaping the Canadian winter, huddled in the
shade of a store's awning as though they were some kind of vampires,
allergic to the sun. "I don't understand," she laughed, "they run from
the cold, and then they run from the heat!"
