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Runners like a winter wonderland as much as anyone. Who doesn’t find an easy run amid freshly fallen snow to be a peak experience?
That attitude starts to change around day three of flailing about on snowy roads, with the resultant muscle strains and compromised training plans. Then many runners start wondering, ”How am I supposed to get anything done in these conditions?”
The answer: Prioritize your key workouts on the basis of which can best be done in snow, and spend a little extra time tending to body parts that work harder than usual in such conditions.
Caption: Left to right: Alex Encinas, MIT junior in mechanical engineering; Mwachoni El-Yahkim of the University of Nairobi; Eric Verploegen, research engineer at MIT D-Lab; Boniface Manambo of the University of Nairobi; Christine Padalino, MIT junior in chemical engineering; and Madeline Bundy, MIT senior in chemical engineering, stand in front of an evaporative cooling chamber they built at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. Credits: Photo courtesy of MIT D-Lab Caption: Left to right: Trang Luu SM 20, Mwachoni El-Yahkim of the University of Nairobi, and MIT junior Carene Umubyeyi retrofit a charcoal evaporative cooling chamber with reflective insulation panels at a farming cooperative in Karurumo, Kenya.