Does anyone wear grips/snow spikes over your running shoes in the winter?

I use something like those and they work fine. The key is to find something that feels comfortable enough on both concrete and ice because you are likely to encounter both during a given run.

snjdkbcb wrote:

The key is to find something that feels comfortable enough on both concrete and ice because you are likely to encounter both during a given run.

This is the key and I don't have a solution. If you live in an urban area it has to be a pretty big storm to be running on snow the whole time. Because of that nothing has worked for me, because running on concrete or asphalt with Yaxtrax was a lot worse than running in snow with just my running shoes, I always would up carrying the Yaxtrax home.

When I lived in Omaha, I'd put short hex screws into the outsole of the shoe around the edges... three on each side of the forefoot with a couple on each side of the heel. Hex screws have a hexagonal head with a flat-blade screwdriver slot in the middle. I'd get the short ones... 3/8 inch maybe?... and put them maybe a quarter to a half inch away from the edge of the outsole.

You can run fine on pavement with them as long as you are careful where you put the ones on the heel so you don't slip on asphalt.

vcds wrote:

snjdkbcb wrote:

The key is to find something that feels comfortable enough on both concrete and ice because you are likely to encounter both during a given run.

This is the key and I don't have a solution. If you live in an urban area it has to be a pretty big storm to be running on snow the whole time. Because of that nothing has worked for me, because running on concrete or asphalt with Yaxtrax was a lot worse than running in snow with just my running shoes, I always would up carrying the Yaxtrax home.

Yeah I have yaktrax but I only wear them if the large majority of the run is on snow and ice. Otherwise they're too annoying. I still think they're a worthwhile investment though if you live in a place with cold, snowy winters. There were a few days last winter that I barely would have been able to run at all without them.

I like this solution. Thank you!

fisky wrote:

When I lived in Omaha, I'd put short hex screws into the outsole of the shoe around the edges... three on each side of the forefoot with a couple on each side of the heel. Hex screws have a hexagonal head with a flat-blade screwdriver slot in the middle. I'd get the short ones... 3/8 inch maybe?... and put them maybe a quarter to a half inch away from the edge of the outsole.

You can run fine on pavement with them as long as you are careful where you put the ones on the heel so you don't slip on asphalt.

I do this too. Usually, I make a pair of screw shoes before each winter season. I usually put 6 screws in the forefoot, and 2 or 3 near the heel, avoiding locations of direct impact. I figure if I run in them most of the time between December, January & February, I probably would have wore out at least one pair of shoes anyway. In 7 winters of doing this, I have only fell one because of ice. The nice part is, if a screw gets worn out, you can just take it out and replace it with a new one.