Seems impossible. How do you do it?
Seems impossible. How do you do it?
In the winter you don't be a bitch and go run outside. Sometimes when there's a blizzard you run on the treadmill. And that's about it. Every other season is fantastic.
You embrace the windburn and run like a true badass, or you sit on your fat ass.
I put on the orange and hit the trails. No sled's gonna run me off.
Ask Joan Benoit.
In the last couple years, I have started running the same direction as traffic, because I can't see over the snow banks and small cars are pretty much silent in the powder. I've also learned that long wool socks and a hood make a big difference in keeping generally warm. The last two years, i've had to rotate my scarf because the area over my mouth freezes from the moisture of my breath. Layering clothes goes without saying, but you also have to be careful, because when it's warmer than 15-20 degrees you sweat and freeze. That's the worst, especially with wind.
I took up cross country skiing. That pretty much took care of everything.
uhm wrote:
In the winter you don't be a bitch and go run outside. Sometimes when there's a blizzard you run on the treadmill. And that's about it. Every other season is fantastic.
No. Sometimes there's a blizzard you simply go outside and run in the blizzard.
Never understood what people have against treadmills.
I've run in all kinds of weather. I just don't enjoy the cold so as soon as it gets below 50 I'm inside on the treadmill. I ran a race last weekend and it was right at 50°. I wore a hat and gloves.
If you like the cold weather, good for you. It doesn't make you any better of a runner though just because you slogged a few miles in the snow. Same as being in a hot humid area in the summer. Slogging your way to overtraining won't help much when it's time to race.
David Lynch sums it up.
"It's such a sadness, that you think you've experienced running, on your f v cking treadmill."
Maintain a several hundred meter long stretch cleared of snow and ice. Run many, many loops of it.
malmo wrote:
uhm wrote:In the winter you don't be a bitch and go run outside. Sometimes when there's a blizzard you run on the treadmill. And that's about it. Every other season is fantastic.
No. Sometimes there's a blizzard you simply go outside and run in the blizzard.
That's a great idea if you're an idiot with a death wish. I'll be getting a better and safer workout on the 'mill.
shovelingman wrote:
Maintain a several hundred meter long stretch cleared of snow and ice. Run many, many loops of it.[/quote]
This is a classic technique. I don't actively "maintain" such a stretch, but I have done hour-long runs up and down the same 1000-meter stretch of a well-plowed road in my smallish NH town. It's pretty dreadful, but sometimes the roads are so rutted with unevenly packed snow and narrowed by snow-walls on both sides that running one of your actual routes is impossible/insane. You end up stutter-stepping half the run, so what's the point? Shovelingman's tactic is occasionally the only way to go. [quote]
One tip...don't forget to be hydrated....got frostbite on ear one time due to no fluids and cold...
Run outside and adjust training based on weather. Treadmills are the absolute last resort for me and if the storm is to bad sometimes ill do at least half my run outside and switch to the treadmill the second half but usually i just run in the storm cause treadmills just suck. Sometimes i have a few days of easy runs before the next hard workout because of snow storms. When i used to run indoors and had access to a indoor track i would do one workout a week inside.
just like the birds..... wrote:
Never understood what people have against treadmills.
I've run in all kinds of weather. I just don't enjoy the cold so as soon as it gets below 50 I'm inside on the treadmill. I ran a race last weekend and it was right at 50°. I wore a hat and gloves.
If you like the cold weather, good for you. It doesn't make you any better of a runner though just because you slogged a few miles in the snow. Same as being in a hot humid area in the summer. Slogging your way to overtraining won't help much when it's time to race.
Lol, you think below 50 is cold? Unless you have some rare medical condition, that's really soft.
malmo wrote:
uhm wrote:In the winter you don't be a bitch and go run outside. Sometimes when there's a blizzard you run on the treadmill. And that's about it. Every other season is fantastic.
No. Sometimes there's a blizzard you simply go outside and run in the blizzard.
That's stupid. If the roads are too slippery your chances of getting injured skyrocket. Most of the time you'll be able to find roads that have been plowed enough, but if it is blizzard and not just a regular snow storm, you should go treadmill.
If you think roads are slippery during a blizzard, you obviously have never run in a blizzard in northern NE. Roads get slippery when cars pack snow on them. In northern NE, there just aren't enough cars for that to happen during a blizzard, maybe after...
*&NUIseo87we(+ wrote:
If you think roads are slippery during a blizzard, you obviously have never run in a blizzard in northern NE. Roads get slippery when cars pack snow on them. In northern NE, there just aren't enough cars for that to happen during a blizzard, maybe after...
This.
Running in a blizzard is one of the most fun things ever (yes I have a pretty different definition of "fun"), and that is coming from someone who ran outdoor long runs all last winter through the ridiculous snow we got in Boston.
Northern New England has lots and lots of snowmobile trails. These can be very good running.
Northern New England has lots and lots of mountain bike trails and lots of mountain bikers and hikers and trail runners that pack these down. These can be very good running.
Northern New England has lots and lots of snow and snowshoe running the packed mountain bike trails can be very good running
Northern New England has lots and lots of groomed ski trails and many, including me, choose to hang up the running shoes for 5 months and ski instead.