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

[Overthebs]

I’ve seen similar threads re this but I’m just FUMING. It’s MAY and it’s still f*cking freezing cold.
I’ve just got up and gone to the coast, got out the car ran about half a K and turned around and come home in a strop.

Also- the heating has had to be on intermittently throughout April because I’ve got a 8month old.

I feel so friggen down with it, I fight SAD so hard during the winter months, wrap up get hiking even in the pouring rain.

We lived in aus for a few years and it’s just so much better weather wise, you can plan stuff, you can be outside even when you’re feeling sad and shit. Here’s just miserable 24/7 and it’s been winter for 7 months!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Sorry to tell you all, but I'm in Dublin right now and it is absolutely gorgeous weather. Am sitting on a bench by the sea in Dalkey (Bono lives there) and people watching. Sunglasses on, SPF on, layers peeled off. I can't believe it!

Heading back into town in a bit to see friends, afternoon in their garden with food and drinks and umbrellas up seems to be the plan.

But it's to rain tomorrow AGAIN.

I’m so glad it’s not just me! I’ve become an evening runner, which almost always means being too tired to go as far as I want and need. Sometimes I don’t run at all but only walk and not briskly.

I understand your fury. I’m not a runner but I like going to the gym at 6am and open water swimming at the weekends. It’s been such a long, cold winter that I’ve skipped way more than I have any other years.
Its so hard when you have SAD (I do too) to get up and motivated, even though rationally you know you’ll feel better for it.

I think your event last year was probably the unusual weather! I’m in central Scotland, yesterday I was sitting in the garden reading a book ! Yes it got nippy when the sun went in but that’s normal for April in Scotland. As a previous person said I won’t be putting plants out for a couple of weeks more yet just in case , and that’s perfectly normal. It’s just a normal Scottish spring here .

Will we?

Why put so much importance to the weather?
It is what it is.
Full stop.

I like running in the cold but don't like the rain. Never go running in the rain.

Because going out for the umpteenth time in howling wind, horizontal rain and cold temperatures is bloody grim.

Yes, you can't change it but that doesn't mean you can't find it unpleasant and miserable.

Running really warms me up, I much prefer running in the cold to the heat and it's not May yet.

Once I got caught in a hail storm while out running and when I got home I noticed that all the letters in the logo on my t shirt had rearranged themselves. I think they were trying to spell out help.
As you were.

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

I'm sick and tired of reading this bollocks. There are only so many days of this shit weather that one is prepared to put up with.

Wading through mud in the right clothes and footwear is just not fun.

Me too and try jogging in wellies- you end up running like Mr Blobby.

There is absolutely such a thing as bad weather FGS

I have Raynaud's. I hate being bloody cold.

I'm with you OP, I hate the cold! Or rather, I like cold crisp days in winter, but not in Spring! I remember when there was a heatwave in March and I was all for it, there was even a hot February a few years back which was similarly glorious. I actually thought that climate change would mean that this country got a lot hotter, which I was looking forward to. I don't believe that 'climate change' has anything to do with it, we just live in a miserable cold country and I'm sick of it.

Same here. I prefer running when it’s cold, I find it much easier than when it’s too warm.
I actually don’t mind rain too much either, as long as it’s not pouring down.
Apart from that I fully agree about the miserable weather though, it’s been going on for way too long now. Really sick of it feeling like November.
It’s supposed to get warmer from tomorrow on, so fingers crossed!

Same here Op, hate hate hate it.

I'm always cold. Sitting in 4 layers today in the sunny room, even though the sun's out. I have reynaud's too. Supermarkets set it off the worst.

If the op is running on a wirral coast, then I ran the opposite coast yesterday. The wind was bitter. I prefer running in the cold, but not the wind. I tend to be in shorts and vest from about march onwards though, because I warm up fairly fast once I get going. It's the only time I wear fewer layers than dh. Having said that, I got reynaud nipple yesterday and couldn't get warm when I got home.

but temps under 10 degrees are perfect for a run.

Vigorous exercise in cold weather hurts my lungs.

That

My friend runs almost daily, he does the obstacle course races and runs off road and even he is sick of the mud, rain and wind
He said it's just draining his motivation as winter has been such a slog