How to keep your hands warm while you run.

I always use socks!

All winter is a quest for me to find the perfect balance of warmth without being too hot. Maybe someday I’ll figure it out…

I got a pair of mizuno gloves a few years ago. When you sweat or they get wet it heats them up like the heat packs you bought-I usually have to take them off if I run for too long because they get sooooo warm. I highly recommend them!!

I feel your cold-hands pain. Once I was going horseback riding with my sister on a cold morning. I was certain that I’d brought my gloves but couldn’t find them when we got there. My sister offered to let me use one of hers, but that seemed like a bad idea, plus, I’d somehow forgotten my gloves so I should have to deal with the cold.

It was so very cold that my hands stung almost immediately. I couldn’t even warm them against the horse. He didn’t want me to touch him! So I figured if I found I couldn’t ride without gloves, I’d just head back to the barn and let my sister enjoy her ride. My mistake shouldn’t ruin the ride for both of us.

About half and hour later, we passed one of the stablehands on her way out to find a late-to-return rider. She commented that my hands must be really cold! As paying attention to managing my mount had completely distracted me, I’d forgotten my hands were cold. When I looked down at them, they were RED! And, better yet, they were toasty!

Then I found my gloves in the car, exactly where I’d left them. My sister had been sitting on them and we’d both gotten out of the car at the same time so I hadn’t seen them. D’oh!

Now, I typically wear insulated leather gloves, but some days mittens would be warmer. I get my gloves at department stores on sale either early or late in the season (not more then $25). I wear new gloves for “nice” the first year and then for “work/fitness” the next year. Any

I like Blistex Medicated Lip Balm in the green tube. It’s SPF15 and I’ve never had chapped lips since I started using it.

Oatmeal: Steel-cut oats with cinnamon, chopped walnuts, Craisins, blueberries (usually frozen), and unsweetened, vanilla-flavored almond milk, assembled the night before and nuked in the morning.

I live in north Central Maryland surrounded by rolling terrain with the Catoctin mountains nearby. I have no right to complain.

I haven’t found gloves that I like to run in, which generally means I don’t wear any. I do have some jackets/sweatshirts that have a little fold over part that covers my hand, which doesn’t bug me the way gloves do. Maybe I need to try mittens.

Um, I have a ridiculous number of lip gloss/chap sticks. Like, all of them. I have a problem.

I only like oatmeal when it’s really cold out, that time of year is almost here!

It’s mostly hilly around here. There’s a relatively flat 1.1 mile loop in the trails that I run, so I can stick to that if I feel like avoiding the hills.

I use the costco ones too! Seattle never got too terribly cold, but this is my first DC winter and I am absolutely terrified.

Oatmeal is my favorite ever but I think it upsets my stomach, which makes no sense. I like making it with half water half almond milk, peanut butter, and TJ’s reduced sugar jam. Sometimes greek yogurt too, if I make them overnight. Lately it’s just been the yogurt with PB&J, which is almost as good.

I just use the cheap dollar fleece gloves from Walmart that way if I lose them I’m not out twenty bucks. For some reason my running/hiking gloves seem to disappear at an alarming rate.

I love walnuts and bananas on my oatmeal, I love oatmeal in the winter. It’s usually all I eat. Quaker has a banana nut flavor that has added protein and it can keep me full way past lunch!

I live in Utah so it is really easy to find both hilly and flat areas to run, but getting up early enough in the morning to drive there won’t happen much this winter, unfortunately.

i wear ski mittens during all my winter runs! i look like a weirdo but it is the only thing that works for me. if it is really cold i add the hand warmers.

im eating oatmeal right now! with banana, protein powder and some mixed seeds!

Aberdeen/Scotland in general is hilly!

Lancome Juicy Tubes are my fave lip gloss!

I have a couple of pairs of “running gloves”, but my hands get HOT. It’s very strange. :\ I definitely have to cover up my ears, so a headband is used 99% of the time in the winter.

I used to eat oatmeal with pb, banana, and some honey drizzled on top every single day! I kinda got oatmeal’d out, but sometimes there’s nothing better after a cold run. <3

I'm a Burt's Bees girl most of the time, but I'll throw on Neutrogena lip gloss every once in a while.

TJ’s almond butter is the BEST!

I have brooks gloves with a mitten attachment. It almost like a windbreaker layer that goes over the fingers and you can flip it back as your hands warm up or if you need to use your fingers for something. Plus it has a little light in them for nighttime running.

And i always wear a hat. Headbands let too much heat escape for me.

I have been using Burt’s Bees lip shimmer in Nutmeg for years. Love it!

I like oatmeal sometimes. It has to be creamy with whole milk added and have walnuts and brown sugar or a dollop of grape jelly =)

My neighborhood is all rolling hills.

I just got done eating my oatmeal!
Overnight oats with just oats, greek yogurt, and cinnamon. :)

I use gloves and hats from Target :). I’ve just decided that my hands are going to be cold and that makes holding my nice warm coffee afterwards so much better :)

I love Burts Bees, but due to cost restrictions I have been using Carmex. Gotta have something during the winter though!

Love oatmeal! I like some kind of nut butter, cinnamon sugar, nuts, and sometimes a little bit of maple syrup.

I live in a very hilly area (Nashville). I can find flat routes, but it takes a lot of creativity. Since I do most of my races around here, the hills are good for me (at least that’s what I tell myself)

I love Burt’s Bees tinted lip balms. I kinda freak out if I don’t have one with me at all times.
I make what I call “Reeses Oatmeal” by mixing in PB and chocolate whey protein. Yum!
My house is surrounded by hills. There is a nice flat trail nearby though but I have to either run uphill to get there or drive.

Brr, my hands feel cold just from reading your post haha! I love those little handwarmers too – I’ve sometimes seen them at the $1 bins at Target!!

Brooke looks like a little animal crawling through that log, what a neat indoor park!

I run outside in Snowmobile gloves, which are a thick soft mitt inside a leather mitt and it goes up to my elbows. I also ball up my hand into a fist, cupping those hand warmers! It works!

I love using reusable hand warmers! The brand repeat the heat sells mini warmers that you can boil in water to “recharge” them and use again.

I LOVE LOVE my Mizuno thermo breath gloves. They’re just like the regular stretchy ones you can buy for like $1. But these keep my hands so warm. I have never found other gloves I love as much. I run mostly on the good ole Jordan River Parkway .. yep .. fellow Utahn here.

These Brooks Adapt II Glove!

http://www.brooksrunning.com/en_us/adapt-glove-ii/280230.html?dwvar_280230_color=077#prefn1=gender&q=accessories&prefv1=Women's&filterstate=closed&start=3

I have hands that always turn white for my entire run and these were able to help. Plus there is a BLINKING LIGHT on the glove to help you be more visible :)