Dress for success

I am notorious for not checking the weather before I get dressed for the day. Too often I am wearing a knit sweater on the warmest day of autumn or I wear heels on the rainest day of the spring. I then proceed to complain all day about being too hot, being too cold, having wet feet, or having hurricane winds blow up my dress. (Yes I have had at least one Marilyn Monroe moment in the middle of Hartford before.)

I make poor wardrobe choices.

Last night Hubby and I were supposed to go dancing but he wasn't feeling too well, so we didn't go. I was enjoying being lazy on the couch when I realized that I actually wanted to go running. Problem? It's dark out and the temperature was quickly dropping. (It was about 17° F before I started running.) I knew if I was to go out that night, I needed to be warmer than last time.

I recently read online that there's no such thing as bad running weather, just bad gear choices. I saw that and immediately I thought, "That is so me!" So this time I was determined to be smarter about this.

I started layering up and quickly realized that I had too many layers on. I had a tank top, tshirt, thermal, sweatshirt, and reflective tshirt. Yeah you can imagine how warm I was just standing there. So I dropped 2 of the layers and thought I'd see how that goes. (I think next time I'll swap the thermal for a regular tshirt.) I double layered my pants and socks, wrapped my dollar store scarf around my ears, and remembered my snow gloves.

Just need my sneakers, headphones, and all my phone apps and I am ready to go! But not without taking a selfie first...

Hakuna matata!