There are plenty of things that make it wonderful, though. First off, that cold, clear air means NO humidity. For me, humidity is the great evil of hot weather. Give me straight up dry heat, and I can hack it. Adding 100% humidity to the equation leaves me sucking wind and just plain sucking.
It's still FREEZING out there, you might say. True. And running clothes aren't exactly snowpants and down-filled jackets. But run for five minutes (ok, maybe ten), and it might as well be spring. The mittens come off, the balaclava comes down, and the jacket's unzipped. It's the cheapest vacation down south you'll ever take. It's like magic.
Finally, there's the ice and snow. Slippy and slidy, yes, but there are ways around it. There are special spikes you can buy to pull on over your shoes, kind of like these, that give you traction on the snow. I prefer to think of them as the chains for your tractor wheels. Or, you can embrace the slipping and the sliding and get an added leg workout. This is the route I take, mainly because I'm too cheap to fork out for the spikes.
One last pro is the cool points you win for coming back from a long morning run wearing frost as mascara.
Give it a try! You might just find it's better than running in your typical "running" weather. If 50 new runners in the tiny town of Bridgetown can begin their running careers in the middle of January, anyone can.
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