Winter Running!
How do you properly run in the winter? Well, depending on if I am on the beach or with my family in Upstate NY, my outfits vary!
For the cold, I love Nike cold gear or anything in my closet really!
These are like pants and tights all in one, for cold-weather running! I have so many black tights, it is fun to mix it up from time to time.
In college as a side gig over break, I helped some fashion majors at a big name university close to my Upstate NY home, with a four-credit course. We had an event with a photo booth, clothes, stickers and makeup that was catered. As the girls whom I helped gave me a strawberry cupcake as a reward for those efforts, they told me about all the clothes they can wear to class without it being controversial. I had envy, because my athletic apparel was considered expensive to wear to my private college, I was told to tone down my sneakers I thought nothing of wearing, I totally could have worn any sneakers I wanted around them and it would never be enough. Where do you wear your favorite things? I need to wear nice sneakers as an elite athlete, but I tone down being flashy for certain events. I never feel guilty for having nice shoes, because my marathon runner feet deserve them all the time, not nice shoes are simply not an option. After my shoes have seen their marathon days, I donate them to the Salvation Army, after washing them thoroughly of course in bleach for colors. It is funny to hear about what some girls are allowed to wear to their college classes, whilst I practically needed a doctor’s note to have sneakers under two hundred dollars in order to not be confronted by an awful woman. One time I had a situation where it was either two walking casts or expensive boots, and I still cannot believe an expensive private school can have the authority to not let you wear nice shoes to class. The thing about those boots was ‘yes’ they were expensive, but in reality I thought they were ugly and only had them instead of walking-casts; double punished for being injured, the real reason behind that foot. Wearing my shoes, and my advisor leaving his door open so anyone could take my personal file from his office were my biggest issues back in the day; it’s almost funny now. I should have gone to those fashion major’s school, to be a professional runner who is also intelligent. When you are adulty early, you need to make sure to be in the right environment. It does not make sense to have an adult professional life, and then be treated in a non-adult manner studying something expensive. I can wear any shoes that I want to wear. My anonymous tip would be to never tell someone who runs up to 100 mileish weeks for about tenish years, anything about their shoes, keep it all to yourself.
This video does a very nice job, reviewing different types of running gloves. I like to wear gloves all the time when I run, they need to be tight and have a mechanism to touch your smart phone as well! I knit a lot of my own hats with double-pointed needles, and make the pom-poms….
