My Secret to Running in the Winter Isn’t Cheap—But It Keeps Me Motivated

RUNNING IN temperate seasons like spring and fall is easy. The discipline gets harder in the summer, when just being outside causes sticky sweat to fill my body’s nooks and crannies, but it’s not impossible. You just have to force yourself out of bed earlier.

Come December and into January, however, I find jogging through winter’s chilling winds, under the straitjacket of wan gray skies, truly punishing.