{"id":2034,"date":"2025-12-10T00:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:52:46","slug":"into-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/into-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the holiday season&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re now fully into holiday season which often means busier schedules, more gatherings, and possible travels. This also can mean that it&#8217;s more challenging to keep up training miles. I&#8217;ve posted several times in the past on different ways to adapt to the season in ways that can allow you to maintain some semblance of fitness without overly taxing your schedule. Instead of rewriting them, I&#8217;ve linked to them below. The first is a general overview of ways to adjust schedules and expectations; the second is a bit on making yourself visible in dark conditions; the third is a brief tip on how to adjust to brutally cold temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll reinforce one point from the third post, which is to carry an extra piece of headgear on longer runs in cold weather. The other day, I almost didn&#8217;t. It was in the low twenties and I was planning on eight miles at a moderately fast clip. I figured that if I could finish in an hour or so and if I was moving fast, I wouldn&#8217;t need it. Thank goodness I did carry an extra headwrap because when I went through mile six and the breeze picked up, my soaked-through hat was doing far more harm than good and the fresh, dry headwrap felt wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/holiday-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/19\/holiday-training\/<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/holiday-schedules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/11\/holiday-schedules\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/winter-running-or-summer-in-reverse\/\">https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/winter-running-or-summer-in-reverse\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now fully into holiday season which often means busier schedules, more gatherings, and possible travels. This also can mean that it&#8217;s more challenging to keep up training miles. I&#8217;ve posted several times in the past on different ways to adapt to the season in ways that can allow you to maintain some semblance of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/into-the-holiday-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Into the holiday season&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9W0ku-wO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1021,"url":"https:\/\/untamedrunner.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/11\/adjusted-holiday-schedules\/","url_meta":{"origin":2034,"position":0},"title":"Adjusted holiday schedules&#8230;","author":"36jonraessler50","date":"December 11, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In the spirit of the fact that December is a busy month, this post will be short.For past holiday seasons, I\u2019ve listed tips on ways to keep up running routines. 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