{"id":502,"date":"2013-11-26T22:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2015-10-11T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:23:06","slug":"winter-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/winter-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some winter tips from a Texan who was in Chicago that one time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t layer. If it&#8217;s below 40 degrees F (4 degrees C), forget layers. Just wear a T-shirt and your good winter coat. That is seriously all you need. Don&#8217;t have a coat warm enough? Well, then you should probably layer. Would you rather put on and peel off a dozen layers as you transition from indoors to outdoors and back indoors; or just throw on a coat?<\/li>\n<li>Forget gloves. Put your hands in your pockets.<\/li>\n<li>I lied, get gloves.My point is: <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> depend on them (unless you&#8217;re biking, but that&#8217;s another story). Be prepared to lose your gloves. Ideally, the gloves you buy have clasps, hooks, and\/or velcro so you don&#8217;t lose them. I actually have a glove\/coat combo where I can peel off my gloves and stick them onto a velcro strip on the coat. Ski jackets usually have good glove storage.<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to put on and take off your gloves with your teeth.\u00c2\u00a0<em>True story<\/em>: If you&#8217;re walking down the street eating your ice cream and you need to answer your phone, you don&#8217;t want to have to put down your ice cream to mess with a glove.<\/li>\n<li>Your nose will run. Don&#8217;t use tissues. I always carry a washcloth for this. Bicyclist will know that winter gloves are designed to have a patch for wiping your nose.<\/li>\n<li>No hats. All you need are ear warmers. Even on bike. I got these foldable ear wamers on woot a loooong time ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\/offers\/eargrips-behind-the-head-fleece-ear-warmer-2-pack-dec-15\">http:\/\/www.woot.com\/offers\/eargrips-behind-the-head-fleece-ear-warmer-2-pack-dec-15<\/a> You can fold them for easy storage, and you can also carry them by wrapping them on your arm, freeing up valuable pocket space. Besides, hats mess up your hair.<\/li>\n<li>Do use scarves and hoods. Hoods are useful for dealing with wind, and scarves can be equivalent to wearing a whole layer. Learn the different way of tying a scarf. You can tie a scarf different ways to deal with different degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Pants: it doesn&#8217;t matter, and you don&#8217;t need long underwear. You can wear the same pants you wore in summer. Same goes for socks and shoes. Your jacket will cut the wind and cover the important bits. I don&#8217;t know what magic girls use to walk around in leg warmers. Maybe it&#8217;s the Uggs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there you have it. With that wardrobe, I was biking around Chicago all winter in 5 degree F weather. The only modification I made for biking was I had to invest in some serious gloves. Another modification you might want is if you&#8217;re going to be standing still outdoors for a long time (why?), then you should add layers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some winter tips from a Texan who was in Chicago that one time: Don&#8217;t layer. If it&#8217;s below 40 degrees F (4 degrees C), forget layers. Just wear a T-shirt and your good winter coat. That is seriously all you need. Don&#8217;t have a coat warm enough? Well, then you should probably layer.&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/winter-tips\/\" title=\"Winter Tips\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Tips<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,8],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":["entry","author-showmewhatyougot","post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-meh-practices","category-pics-plz","tag-clothing","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}