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October 24, 2005
Where Did Summer Go?
Wow - it was really cold at o'dark thirty this morning when I took the dogs out. I had to add some clothes to my gym bag for my lunchtime 5 miler. The weatherman has no idea what the temperature will be at noon. Factor in the wind and its a recipe for misery. So I've got a t-shirt, shorts, long-sleeved dri-fit base layer, and I think I even threw in the fleece pull-over for good measure. The thermometer says 40 right now - hopefully it will get to 55 and I can stick with t-shirt and shorts at noon.
A few weeks back, I copied a cheat-sheet on dressing for running in the cold into a Word doc. Not sure where I got it from, I will add the credit up here as soon as I find it again. (As a side note, that's one thing OneNote does really well - when you're doing web research and using OneNote to organize it, it automatically figures out the website you got the content from and adds the URL as a reference. I don't know how it does it - all I do is copy/paste like normal from a web page into OneNote and the URL reference magically appears.)
| Dress for Success | |
| Here’s a cheat sheet to help you dress appropriately for your runs, no matter what the thermometer says. This chart factors in the 10-Degree Rule but doesn’t account for a significant windchill. On very windy days, you may need to dress warmer. | |
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TEMP |
BASIC APPAREL |
| above 70 | Lightweight/light-colored singlet and shorts |
| 60 to 69 | Tank top or singlet and shorts |
| 50 to 59 | T-shirt and shorts |
| 40 to 49 | Long-sleeve shirt and tights or shorts |
| 30 to 39 | Long-sleeve shirt and tights |
| 20 to 29 | Two upper-body layers and one lower-body layer |
| 10 to 19 | Two upper-body layers and one lower-body layer |
| 0 to 9 | Two/three upper-body layers, one/two lower-body layers |
| below 0 | Three upper-body layers, two lower-body layers |
Posted by Mike on October 24, 2005 7:48 AM