So the weather guys say it may snow/sleet tomorrow afternoon. Schools are closed lol.
The frozen rain/Ice worries me, the snow not so much. Luckily I have 4WD if it gets crazy.
QOTD: What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?
ATTQOTD: I have my important ones hanging on my wall. The ones that dont have much meaning to me are in a box in our garage. I never had any of the engraved, but would like to get a few of them engraved with my finish time. I will probably have to find a place in town that does that for the existing ones.
On the wall. I have made two of the hangers they are on. I like to display them and remember what I have accomplished.QOTD: What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?
ATTQOTD: So funny we were just talking about our very sad medal display. Mine are in a Kate Spade shopping bag in the corner of our home office.
QOTD: What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?
In our previous house, they hung in our closet on a clothes bar (since most of them velcro open). Now they are hanging on these hat hooks in the room that we are staying in with my in laws. I keep telling my husband that we need a medal rack, but he doesn't want to buy me one that says something without my approval, which is smart. Haha. I also have all of our bibs from all of our races. Maybe in our next house I will find a better place to display them all.QOTD: What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?
So, as a northerner we are use to it being colder so might dress a tad less than you would prefer to and I also run hot which makes a difference too, but I have a wide range of long sleeve shirts (from UA to Walmart quality), a light running jacket (Nike), vests (Old Navy), thicker running jacket (UA), fleece tops, longer thicker capris and tights, and yoga pants. My biggest issues with cold tends to be my thighs (not trying to spark THAT debate again... hahahaha) so when it is around 25 or below degrees I tend to wear a pair of capris and then some yoga pants over them. At those temps I tend to layer, so a long sleeve shirt and a vest or jacket or fleece. Something I can roll at least one of the sleeves up or take on and off with little issue then tie it around my waist or something like that. I always have gloves, but I wear just the cheap stretchy fingerless gloves from walmart with the mitten flap so I can flip them open when I get warm. Also have a running beanie hat I got at Target, nothing fancy but made for exercising so a bit better at wicking than just a winter hat. The less miles I run the more I tend to have on because I heat up pretty good the longer I am out there! It is kind of trial and error.I guess I need to ask my Northern Neighbors how they dress and what temp do they not run in! My "cold weather" gear consists of a long sleeve Under Armour shirt and a pair of heavier capri running tights! Average high January here is in the mid 60s but this last 6 weeks has been crazy and barely out of the 40s with lows in the teens. Snow in December and more tonight when we normally only get snow every 10 years!
I hopefully won't need a winter running wardrobe, but what do you suggest for running attire for temperatures in the mid 30s to upper 40s? Thanks for any help!
What do you do with your race medals? Do they go on the wall, a desk drawer, shadow box? Do you get the engraved or do anything else special with them?
So, as a northerner we are use to it being colder so might dress a tad less than you would prefer to and I also run hot which makes a difference too, but I have a wide range of long sleeve shirts (from UA to Walmart quality), a light running jacket (Nike), vests (Old Navy), thicker running jacket (UA), fleece tops, longer thicker capris and tights, and yoga pants. My biggest issues with cold tends to be my thighs (not trying to spark THAT debate again... hahahaha) so when it is around 25 or below degrees I tend to wear a pair of capris and then some yoga pants over them. At those temps I tend to layer, so a long sleeve shirt and a vest or jacket or fleece. Something I can roll at least one of the sleeves up or take on and off with little issue then tie it around my waist or something like that. I always have gloves, but I wear just the cheap stretchy fingerless gloves from walmart with the mitten flap so I can flip them open when I get warm. Also have a running beanie hat I got at Target, nothing fancy but made for exercising so a bit better at wicking than just a winter hat. The less miles I run the more I tend to have on because I heat up pretty good the longer I am out there! It is kind of trial and error.
My profile pic is from WDW Half and as you can see I have longer capris on and a light long sleeve shirt under my short sleeve one and to be honest I could have gone without the long sleeve one once I started running. I had a hoodie and a fleece on at the start and ditched the fleece right away and the hoodie went at around mile 2. I think it was 30's - 40's that race day.
As to the lowest temps I will run in, ummmmm, well I have run outside in sunny single digit temps as far as training goes, and races I had a race I still went to that was hovering around zero. I hate the treadmill, so long runs have to be outside for me and I take what I can get!
Not sure this helped you at all, it is hard because we all have different tolerances, but I would just say go with layers so if you misjudge it you can take stuff off as you go!