Yup. I’ve found that balance between warm enough and overheating (headband instead of toque, gloves instead of mittens, etc.). It might look weird when I take off my gloves and let the heat radiate off my hands in -25ºC weather, but I need to blow off that extra heat from brisk walking. I prefer cold weather for all my exercising - I get nice and warm in the cold, but I get far too hot in the heat.
As long as my noisy old heat pump keeps working I don’t care too much. Still, I’m ready for spring.
It’s been a while since I experienced really cold temp - I’ve lived in San Fran and the Central Valley of CA for the last 12 years. I work in Daly City, and it recently got to about 35-ish. Not cold, but anyone who’s spent much time there knows about the wind - when it whipped, it was fricking COLD! Terrible stuff…
Joe
My office is in a cinder block wall, poured concrete floor building with one of those giant overhead gas heaters that blows right over my head and out the door, so I wear fingerless gloves so I can use the laptop. I turn a flannel pj bottom inside out so the softest side is against my skin and wear that under my jeans. Usually 2 or 3 turtlenecks maybe under a sweater or sweatshirt, and one or sometimes 2 pairs of socks with my regular tennis shoes. I have a sedentary job sitting at a desk so I get pretty chilly. I walk to work every day but the good news is I live right across the street. The other day I wore a long wool coat to work and never took it off, and still my legs were a bit cold. Kept my hat on all day too - windchill around -5 that day. I do think the snow is beautiful tho, just not when I have to scrape it off my car, and very glad I don’t have to drive anywhere right now, accidents all over the news.