This is the most practical advice I’ve seen. I couldn’t agree more. As a woman, my core heats up and my hands get cold, so I never go about two layers even when it’s 0F, but I do wear mittens with hand warmers. Headbands are great because they can be wrapped around your arm when it gets warmer or your hand if your hands are colder than your head. I’ve done this when my grasping hand (that I use to reach into pockets) was super cold even with mittens and my ears felt okay. It helped warm up my hand.
Great tips. Here's another one. For keeping your feet dry and warm inside of mesh running shoes, improvise a vapour barrier layer using thin bread bags I wear a thin liner sock such as a polyster dress sock, put the bread bag on top of that, and then a thin wool sock on top of the bread bag. Yes my feet sweat a little bit, but I do not notice it during my run, only once I'm home and I'm taking my socks off. I've use this system during cold Canadian winters to run in sub freezing temperatures.
Based on my 33 years of real winter running experience, these two people in the video still made some mistakes. Wearing shorts in winter is silly. Neither of them wore neck gaiters. You don't need a watch cap to run -- just a ball cap with a fleece earband. In real winter weather, you need a facemask. The two people in the video are really running in chilly weather, not really cold weather.
If it’s above 30F, shorts are the Norm where I’m from. If it is below 30F, I opt for long pants. I wear mittens before pants. Legs are great at keeping warm when running. Obviously, if it’s -10F windchill, don’t wear shorts. They didn’t specify different temperatures. I run in single digits F without a mask (unless I’m within 20 feet of people- pandemic precaution), but if I were to ever run in -10 F or below, I’m sure I’d use a face mask to avoid frostbite. I think this video is what the majority of people will run in during the winter. Not as many people run during extreme conditions like -20F.
I find waterproof trail running shoes to be useless. Water gets in through the top and cannot get out. Better to just embrace the fact that your feet are going to get wet.
You can buy running Gators that zip over the top of your shoe and grasp the ankle. I have some that go with nanospikes. I just use the gators alone if there’s snow with no ice / not enough ice.
