Barefoot and cold weather

Yesterday the first snow of the year and it was a lot of snow. A hard gusty wind makes it to a snow blizzard. Normally on Sunday I go out for a one hour run but today I had to shorten my run. Not because my feet were cold but because the snow was flying so hard it hurt my eyes and face. This brings me to running with bare feet during winter. A lot of people asked me if it’s not cold. Yes it’s cold but you can run with bare feet in the snow.

Especially if it’s dry fresh snow it’s pretty comfortable to run, if it’s melting are frozen snow than it’s a different story. Water, cold wind and low temperatures are killing for bare feet. In this conditions you have to be aware of frostbite. Also frozen snow can become very slippery and can cause you injuries. In these cases shorten your run or stay home.

Then comes the hardest part of running in the snow with bare feet, coming home and warming up. This really can hurt. It starts with an itchy feeling and then it start to hurt really badly. There are no tips or trick to avoid this, the only thing is don’t put your feet in warm water or in front of a heater!!! The best thing is to stay in a warm room and gradually warm your feet. Normally this takes about 15 minutes.

So don’t be afraid and get out in the snow, it feel pretty cool (word joke) to be able to run with your bare feet in the snow if everyone else has to put on his or her snow boots!