 All right, so it's a beautiful day. First of December actually, 2020 and I'm heading out for a short run, four and a half kilometers on a plan and of course if you're interested in your own training plan I do offer coaching so check out my website in the link in the description. The next video though is about the question and the question is as follows. How do I know if I'm overdressed for my running? I'm gonna walk a little bit, just so difficult to make a video while you're running. You know it's when you're heading out to check out the beautiful road that I'm on. I just live back there. You know when you're going out for a run, if it's a very short run it doesn't matter as much how much you put on in terms of clothing but in the winter if you put on too much clothes and you're going out for a long run, what happens is that towards the end of the run you're starting to sweat a lot because you're wearing too much clothes, right? That sweat becomes cold and you actually get colder because you're overdressed then if you dressed correctly you wouldn't sweat as much and you would stay warm throughout the run. So of course things like materials, what you're actually wearing, let's do it on the other side a little bit, what you're actually wearing in terms of materials matters a lot too and that you have good quality clothing and how you dress but essentially what I'm gonna answer in this video is just this question, how do you know if you're overdressed or not before a run? Well the answer is pretty simple in my experience, if you're comfortable when you're starting out, you know if the first kilometer or first mile or two is perfectly comfortable in terms of temperature, you've overdressed, it's funny because if you're comfortable when you're starting out that means you're comfortably dressed for just walking and being maybe standing still even but as soon as you start running of course your temperature goes up quite a lot as most of us know as we all know, temperature goes up when you start exercising so that means you're gonna get warmer and warmer and warmer and if you're comfortable at the start you're definitely gonna get too warm on the other hand if you're cold when you start out for the first kilometer or two like I am right now that's when you know you dressed closer to optimal, you know time will tell whether or not you actually did dress optimal or not and it also depends on the length of the run as I said because if you're just out for you know like half an hour it doesn't almost matter you could just overdress and you'll still be fine but if you're going out for like two hours if you overdressed you're gonna get sweaty and cold and uncomfortable and I'm talking like in the winter you know like now where it's actually freezing zero degrees Celsius that's when it matters the most so that's something of a hurdle for me that every run that I do I have to accept that the first you know ten minutes is gonna feel cold I hate that I just hate that I guess I could if I had a treadmill I could warm up indoors then head out but that's a little too extreme so it goes for the summer too by the way if you if you head out in the summer it's really hot and you put on a shirt and you know shorts and whatever you head out to start running like yeah this is this is perfect comfortable 20 minutes later you're gonna wish you could tear your skin off but you can't so it's always an indicator how you feel for those first ten minutes too cold perfect comfortable then that's too much anyway just wanted to sort of share that thought with you guys do you find the same have you got the same experience tell me in the comments if you feel like this is true for you too so it's an art and a science of course just met another runner which is always awkward when you're making a video but so yeah what was I saying I don't remember what I was saying but very beautiful around here thanks for watching stay tuned for more videos