What do you wear in the cold?

I bought a thermal clothes and I'll run until snow falls. Extra clothing is not required even. It's very warm and comfortable.

itdepends wrote:

What is too cold for split shorts for you? If you are thinking it is getting cold now, then I don't know what you should do. Cuz there is no way it's too cold for split shorts yet.

everyone is different.

At least wear gloves or perhaps arm warmers. Much of your body is going to heat up, but the extremities are especially sensitive to cold, and in freezing conditions, frostbite. Better safe than sorry.

Asians always cold wrote:

Blistering Bangkok wrote:

I hear ya! One day I went outside the door on a very unusually cold winter morning in Bangkok and the temperature was 56. I turned around and went back inside.

Why are Asians so paranoid of slightly cool temperatures? This applies to Asians from both tropical and temperate climates. 70 degrees or colder, and they all need to bundle up and force their kids to wear thick clothing. They look shocked if you walk around wearing T-shirts and shorts when it's 65 and sunny outside. And they always turn the thermostat up to high temperatures.

First of all, I'm not Asian.

Why are Americans so paranoid of slightly warm temperatures? If we went by the USA's heat index and heat alerts we would never run or go outside. It is what you are used to. One person's winter can be another person's summer depending upon what you are used to.

Northern Asia is very cold in the winter. For that matter, most of China and all of the 'stans of the former Soviet Union are frigid in winter.

SE Asia is usually warm to hot all year around. When we get a cold snap it's a shock to the system because it doesn't happen often.

Blistering Bangkok wrote:

First of all, I'm not Asian.

Why are Americans so paranoid of slightly warm temperatures? If we went by the USA's heat index and heat alerts we would never run or go outside. It is what you are used to. One person's winter can be another person's summer depending upon what you are used to.

Northern Asia is very cold in the winter. For that matter, most of China and all of the 'stans of the former Soviet Union are frigid in winter.

SE Asia is usually warm to hot all year around. When we get a cold snap it's a shock to the system because it doesn't happen often.

Tell that to Florida runners.

If you're a non-Asian who is that paranoid of slightly cool temperatures, you must be old or from a perpetually hot state like Florida or Hawaii.

Asians born in the US, including some of my friends, have no problem going out in T-shirts and shorts in 60 degree weather. But Asian immigrants are ridiculously paranoid of comfortably cool temperatures. They will annoy the heck out of their US-born kids by forcing them to wear jackets in perfectly fine weather that the parents perceive to be dangerously cold. There are some hilarious YouTube skits about this.

Asian momma trying to force her son to wear a jacket in the middle of a sunny Southern California day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTTP4GwpYBA

I thought this thread was going to be about what to wear when it's cold outside.

Gravy wrote:

I thought this thread was going to be about what to wear when it's cold outside.

That's what I intended. Oh well...

Cold is a state of mind.

I live outside of Houston, and I kinda hate the cold. Of course I'll complain about the summer when it's 80 degrees with a 78 degree dew point. But at least you know exactly what to wear (as little as possible).

But what I find is that a pair of gloves can really make a big difference plus they're easy to shed and not a burden to carry.

So when it's in the 50's it's shorts, t-shirt and gloves. Get too warm I'll pop my thumbs out, or may take the gloves off altogether.

If it's low 50's I may throw on some arm warmers too, and if I get too warm, just slide them down to my wrists.

If it's in the 40's, I might wear a cap as I lack hair. And I'll go with the arm warmers or long sleeve shirt and shorts and gloves of course.

And if it's in the 30's, I'll probably wait a few hours and run when it's warmer because the 30's don't tend to last too long down here.

Worked in the Big Mango (Bangkok) for 12 years. You become used to the environment. Also I never said I was "paranoid" of cold weather, nor am I old, or from Florida or Hawaii. Today I will go and run and it will be probably be around 58- 60 degrees out but I'm back in the USA so it is quite different and normal.

Florida? Been there in the summer. Cooler and less humid than Bangkok.

Will be around 55 degrees when I go out to run today. Long sleeve T-shirt, 7" shorts (none of those 3"splits for me) socks and shoes. It will most likely be partly sunny.

Running gear is useless to keep you warm unless you are running.

I wear 2 fleeces when coaching and a woolly hat in comedy part of winter plus thicker tracksuit not tights nonsense.

For running Merano top good as a base layer. Ron Hill tracksters a lot warmer than tights.

FlyingFast wrote:

At least wear gloves or perhaps arm warmers. Much of your body is going to heat up, but the extremities are especially sensitive to cold, and in freezing conditions, frostbite. Better safe than sorry.

Better to wear proper clothes or a hat.

Arm warmers are a crock what's wrong with a long sleeved top. Plus you can pull them over your hands. No needs for gloves (gloves with fingers are are worse than useless). When you warm up you can let them go back up your arm. Some are even made with a thumb whole.

I like hoodies as you can take hood off when hot rather than lug a hat around.

You should try a Sport-Tek ST850 Zip Pullover and Russel athletic shorts, have a look

https://www.apparelshopusa.com/sport-wick-stretch-12zip-pullover-85896.html