AIBU to have thrown my morning run away cos I’m sick of being cold

I planned to run this morning but l just didn't want to get cold and wet. So YANBU.

But science shows that bad weather can negatively impact our moods. SAD exists and there are tools out there to help people cope in the winter months.

You can bang on about "changing her view" but it's not exactly abnormal to be sick to the back teeth of miserable weather for weeks on end. Not all feelings are rational and they don't necessarily need fixing or "changing" either.

I live not far from you OP. Yesterday there was a bitter chill in the air. I've turned the heating on this morning, I cant function when feeling cold. I'm sat here waiting for the house to warm up and then I may get changed and go to the gym.

Don't beat yourself up, life is too short to continue doing something that was joyless.

For the record, I did a bit on the treadmill, my partner came back from a 14 miler looking like he'd been dragged through a swamp and said "I don't blame you for noping out of that one".

It's due to be sunny tomorrow morning, so I'm going to get up early and try again!

This is so untrue. It's a proven fact that the weather can affect people's mood. No amount of positive thinking can change that. I'm not even taking about extreme sad but it does have an effect to varying degrees. Especially when you want to take part in a sport that is primarily outdoors.

This is me. I don't like it too hot. But there is too cold. I have no motivation to run when it's miserable. I did a half marathon A couple of weeks ago and it was perfect running weather. Not too hot, sunny enough but not blaring. And then it was back to wet.
I drive to some of my runs and run straight out the door to others. I get very bored of the same routes so like to mix it up.
I've also started doing my 5ks on the treadmill at the gym. Just to escape the cold. Can't do more than 5 though before I want to stick pins in my eyes.

I really hate the weather in this country but you can't live in the UK; want to run; be unable to run in the cold. You have to drop one of them.

I climb, it's very weather dependent and the UK has some of the best rock in the world for climbing you can just hardly ever fucking climb on it so I feel your pain. Also got an Australian passport so could just end this but...

Ne'er cast a clout till May be out

I prefer this cooler weather, do stretches in the house and the run from the front door. I'm warm within 5 minutes and boiling by the time I get home. Can't stand it when it gets above23 I often can't run in the summer because it's too hot

I would agree if the OP was mildly anoyed. But she does sound really down upset. She will just carry on being miserable if she does not change the view she has of her situation.

Believe it or not the time of year is behaving as normal. A smite warmer. But it has been the darkest and dull in history which makes it feel much colder.

One last frost this weekend and it should warm up after that. Bloody better, I've got babies to plant.

There’s no such as thing as bad weather, just bad clothes.

When I run in the cold I have my hat/ear band, gloves, run jacket, thermal socks. Sounds like you were not prepared.

Oh I get it. I’ve been happily out on runs at 6 am, dodging ice on the pavement, where the only people out are van drivers deicing their windscreens - I don’t mind cold! You usually warm up eventually and come back in glowing and exhilarated.

But this week I went out on one that was so fucking miserable and ploddy, that I never warmed up, never enjoyed it and got back in still freezing and feeling quite down. It’s a different kind of cold. And yes I was dressed appropriately like I have been on every other run. It was just relentless and joyless.

I don't think OP is looking for solutions or "ways to manage the situation" - she's just sick of relentless wind, rain and mud and wants to have a moan about it.

Not every complaint requires a solution - it's okay to just have a vent and a whinge :)

YANBU. I sacked it off this morning as well. When I first started I’d go out in all but the very heaviest rain, but I just can’t be arsed, now, I’m so so sick of it. I don’t mind the cold, it’s the wind and rain and mud that’s just soul-sapping. I did a core workout instead which was not in any way equivalent, and now I feel guilty.

I'm with you OP. I'm not a runner but I work outside everyday and I am absolutely sick of mud, wind, hail and rain. And yes, before someone comes along and tells me - I know it's April and I know it's normal for the weather to be unpredictable but that doesn't mean I can't moan about it, lol.

I look back on my FB memories and I feel like this is the coldest March/April in a long time. It's barely got into double digits whereas in previous years it was definitely in the mid-high teens.

I thing YABU to take the temperature and climate where you live so personally, to the point of being really upset. I mean this kindly and am not being goady. Ultimately, your feelings are what you make them. They are not controlled by the weather. Where I live its eight degrees and its not raining so to me that's a win.

At the end of the day it is what it is. You either make the best of it or work on how you are going to move elsewhere. Either way, you need to manage the situation so that you can feel better.

I have given up trying to exercise outdoors and bought an exercise bike.

It's the mud for me. It's been endless from October until last week. We had a couple of dry warm days and a lot of the mud has dried out now thank god. It rained heavily on Friday but fortunately my run yesterday was ok still. I'm feeling hopeful now, the coast path is runnable again and I think the end of mud season is in sight!

The cold doesn't bother me so much, it needs to be exceptionally bad for me to not wear shorts - I agree the wind has not been fun though, there's been a lot of very windy days.

Prepped all my running kit last night so all I had to do this morning was roll out of bed and into it ... but I can't bring myself to do it. It's so cold my face hurts. I need a wee too but the thought of that cold loo seat is making it go back in.

I work away quite a bit and I'm getting fed up of having to pack multiple coats, and clothes for different weathers! I'd like it to warm up a bit now too.

My local parkrun has a section that has been flooded since November and is effectively a ford, and my tolerance for drying out my trainers multiple times a week is going so I'm trying to run when/where it's drier. I'd like to stick to my vague plan of when to go, but the weather is making it hard!

Because there were a couple warm days last week I thought that we were done, so I put my big coat in the attic, along with some jumpers. I am regretting it now. It's freezing.

in that case… there will be lots of local routes that will get you to parks and country without the arse of driving

Being cold and feeling at one with the elements is the best part of outdoor exercise, YABVU to moan about the weather. You are going to have months when it’s going to be far too hot to run coming up.