6 Reasons Your Chilly-Weather Runs Are Better Than Scorching Summer Ones

While winter is still a calendar month away, the cold temperatures are already here. But based on previous responses to an Instagram post asking for cold-weather-running tips, we had a theory—people actually prefer running in freezing temps to scorching ones. So we polled our readers via Instagram post, and the results are (overwhelmingly) in favor of running on a cold day.

If you’re not a believer, here are some reasons that nearly 3,000 readers submitted. And let’s face it, in most of the country your only choice now is to layer up, so you might as well enjoy it. Here are 33 reasons layering up for a chilly run is better than sweating it out during summer.

Seems like the cold never bothered these runners, anyway.

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