Top Tips For Safe Winter Running
- By Jeff Gaudette
- Published Jan. 21, 2013
- Updated Feb. 1, 2013 at 9:03 AM UTC
6. Adjust Your Workout
If you’re training for an important race, it is crucial that a snow day remains a small inconvenience, not a month long injury from slipping and sliding. It is much better to bag a workout and push it to a different day than tweaking a muscle you never knew you had in the first place. Waiting a day can sometimes be the difference between a winter of consistent and healthy training and a slew of injuries that lasts until spring.
FILED UNDER: Injury Prevention / Training TAGS: Hydration / safety tips / winter running apparel
Jeff Gaudette
Jeff has been running for 13 years, at all levels of the sport. He was a two time Division-I All-American in Cross Country while at Brown University and competed professionally for 4 years after college for the Hansons-Brooks Distance Project. Jeff's writing has been featured in Running Times magazine, Endurance Magazine, as well as numerous local magazine fitness columns.