if you're wet make sure you lube up all your hotspots with extra care. Chaafing is the enemy!!! You can also tape up your shoes so you don't get them soaked.

I wear trail shoes when there is snow on the roads. I like the idea of Yak Trax, but I'd tear them up on routes that are 30% to 60% clear asphalt. For cold and wind, layering clothing works. Some experimentation is needed to find the right layers for different conditions. I don't tape my shoes, and haven't needed an extra layer of socks as long as I'm wearing wool. I've run in temperatures down to -10° F, and in the positive single digits with wind up to 35 mph. (FWIW, I found -10° and minimal wind a lot easier to deal with than +91° with high humidity.)

For rain, a brimmed hat. Wool socks. I have Darn Tough, SmartWool, and Feetures; all work well with wet conditions. My feet don't stay dry, but they do stay warm and don't get blisters. Vaseline on the parts of my feet that rub, same as in all weather. (BodyGlide would probably work, but I choke on $10 for 1.5 oz. of BodyGlide vs. $2 for 13 oz. of generic petroleum jelly.) A wind proof running jacket will keep out showers, but for steady rain you just embrace getting wet and keep warm. Everything should be wicking. There should be no shred of cotton on your body.

The iPhone stays in the Otterbox, then goes into a ziplock bag, then into a SPIbelt that stays inside the outermost layers. That keeps it dry (and relatively warm, in colder weather) but GarminConnect can still communicate with my watch. Can't see it during the run, but I can get to the stats afterward. And if worst comes to worst, I can work the touch screen through the ziplock bag to call for help; don't know about sound quality through the bag, as I haven't tested an actual phone call that way.

Of course, reflective harness, headlamp, and flashing red lights front and back for running in the dark. While not technically limited to cold weather, running in the dark tends to be correlated with running in cold weather here.

I do much the same as Moby...I go one step farther with polypro sock liners and the SmartWool socks. I've run in cold rain and not had a problem with the feet. The get wet, of course, and the shoes get squishy but I haven't had any other problems with blisters or feet getting cold. That's a trick I learned from backpacking.

My phone stays in the same config that Moby speaks about. Everything else electronic is water resistant ((HRM, Fitbit).

I dress for the temperature, not the weather as I find that jackets designed to keep me dry might not do the trick for the temperature (either too hot or occasionally too cold). That means embracing the wet.

Wet tech shirts can be murder on the nipples. Tape or otherwise protect them.

dewd2 wrote: »

How do you tape your shoes?

Just some gorilla tape around the sides and the top/front to keep the water out.

Also, for those in the snow belt, google "screw shoes" I do up a pair every year, works GREAT.