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Best Winter Running Socks

From About​.com, Run­ning and Jogging

Wear­ing the right run­ning socks when run­ning in the cold weather is not just a mat­ter of com­fort, it’s also a safety issue. If your feet get too cold and wet, you could be at risk for frost­bite. Try some of these run­ning socks for max­i­mum com­fort and protection.

Smart­Wool Adren­a­line Socks
These socks are actu­ally designed to keep your feet warm in the win­ter and cool in the sum­mer. The Smart­Wool Merino wool allows for supe­rior tem­per­a­ture reg­u­la­tion and mois­ture man­age­ment, and the socks’ Smart­Fit Sys­tem puts tech­nol­ogy to work by adding cush­ion and sup­port where it’s needed, with­out extra weight.

Thorlo Thick Cush­ion Run­ning Sock
Many run­ners swear by Thorlo socks for their cush­ion­ing, com­fort and blis­ter pro­tec­tion. These socks fea­ture max­i­mum fit­ness den­sity padding for bet­ter dura­bil­ity, as well as pro­tec­tion against shock and impact. The light­weight padding in the arch pro­vides arch sup­port and a bet­ter fit.

Fee­tures Bam­boo and Wool Run­ning Socks
The wool in these run­ning socks insu­lates your feet, keep­ing them at a com­fort­able tem­per­a­ture, while bam­boo makes the sock soft, and antimi­cro­bial to pre­vent foot odor. And it’s eco-friendly, too! Both fibers wick away mois­ture, so feet stay dry.

Dry­max Cold Weather Run­ning Socks
Dry­max Cold Weather Run­ning Socks have a spe­cial Dual Layer Mois­ture Removal Sys­tem, which instantly moves mois­ture from the skin, through the inner Dry­max layer to the outer absorbent layer, keep­ing feet dry. A third layer of Dry­max fiber insu­la­tion was added along the front of the sock, since that area gets cold­est due to wind chill. The socks also fea­ture dense padding (rather than thick padding), as it pro­tects feet with­out adversely affect­ing the fit of the shoes. These socks are designed for use in cold to cool con­di­tions, keep­ing feet dry, com­fort­able and odor-free.

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14 Responses to “Best Winter Running Socks”

1. Tracy says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:15 am

   So Lit­tle Hot­ties Sci­ence Exper­i­ment day #2 update. Leigh (being the bright child he is) brought up the hypoth­e­sis that maybe the ambi­ent tem­per­a­ture was affect­ing the heat­ing ele­ments of the Lit­tle Hot­ties. Inter­est­ing idea. Would some­one please let me bor­row their child so we can run a REAL sci­ence exper­i­ment on this? The real life test today was that I acci­den­tally for­got my lit­tle hot­ties in my coat pocket and by the time I got to work they were HOT. Seri­ously, like I couldn’t hold them in my hand they were so hot. 8:03am. Go figure.

   And I swear by Thorlo socks. They rock.
2. Andy says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:29 am

   Tracy’s lit­tle hot­ties con­ver­sa­tions bring me hours of enter­tain­ment. And I am happy to let you bor­row Joshua and Zachary but it does require that you keep them overnight.

   Regard­ing socks, I think thin­ner is bet­ter so I typ­i­cally wear Nike Dri-Fit socks.

   Look­ing for­ward to a new work­out tomor­row. It was cre­ated dur­ing the plan­ning stages of BC4C and never been attempted on boot­cam­pers until tomor­row. Promise it will be fun.

   Until then.
3. Andy says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:44 am

   SHAMELESS PLUG:

   Today is the last day for vot­ing and my sister’s book, the Sorcerer’s Appren­tices is in the finals for food books. Please vote and encour­age your friends to vote as well. Thanks.

   http://​www​.goodreads​.com/​p​o​l​l​/​s​h​o​w​/​5​6​9​5​2​-​b​e​s​t​-​f​o​o​d​-​c​o​o​k​i​n​g​?​u​t​m​_​m​e​d​i​u​m​=​e​m​a​i​l​&​a​m​p​;​u​t​m​_​s​o​u​r​c​e​=​c​o​p​y​p​a​s​t​e​p​oll
4. Andrew says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:48 am

   Any­one else expe­ri­enc­ing any chafing?
5. Andrew says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:49 am

   Chaf­ing? Anyone?
6. Andrew says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:50 am

   That was odd, did not let me post the first com­ment, and then posted anyway…
7. Julie says:

   November 30, 2011 at 9:52 am

   So, Decem­ber vet­er­ans = work­out guinea pigs? I’m flat­tered (not).

   Mary, talked to Brett — not only might we see him tomor­row (don’t hold your breath), but he has con­firmed he will be attend­ing Sun­day

   Andrew — am I miss­ing the BC4C cat­e­gory for ‘Best Win­ter Clothes: Pants that keep your arse warm’? While I appre­ci­ate the socks advice, really am look­ing for the pants advice after today.
8. Kathleen says:

   November 30, 2011 at 11:31 am

   Julie, I highly rec­om­mend Nike Ther­mal wear. There are pants, tops, and jack­ets. I espe­cially love the pants because they have a wide elas­tic band rather than a tie. I also rec­om­mend get­ting cold weather tops with elas­tic on the bot­tom so they don’t ride up. I promise there is lit­tle worse than feel­ing the cold, soggy ground on the lower back.

   Thanks for a fun WO Andrew! I love incline push ups and not because some peo­ple think they are easy. For me, reg­u­lar push ups work more of my shoul­ders than chest.
9. Cassie says:

   November 30, 2011 at 12:39 pm

   Speak­ing of lower back, any­one else expe­ri­enc­ing the lovely bruis­ing going on on the small of your back/upper butt area thanks to row boats in the dirt and con­crete situps? How’s that for a run-on!
10. Cassie says:

    November 30, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Peo­ple can’t even believe that we do what we do when I tell them things like this!
11. Leigh says:

    November 30, 2011 at 1:22 pm

    Julie and oth­ers, if you act quick you can get some rel­a­tively cheap win­ter gear at http://​run​ning​ware​house​.com/ Their Cyber Mon­day sale goes through tomor­row, where you can get 25% off select win­ter gear items. BC4C has a “team” dis­count with them by using the code BOOT4AD, which gets you 15% off most pur­chases. I don’t think they will stack the dis­counts though.

    Back on the blog topic, the same web­site has a pretty good selec­tion of both cold weather and warm weather socks. I recently pur­chased some Pearl Izumi wool socks that I’ve been pleased with.
12. Kara says:

    November 30, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    Tracy .. I think 4 chil­dren will pro­vide for an accu­rate sam­ple for such an exper­i­ment. Andy .. can you please grab my rugrats on the way to Tracy’s? I am sure you will need a good 48 hours do to this right. Let me know what else I can do to help.
    As for socks, I really want a pair of the red knee socks Andrew was sport­ing this morning.They look great and I bet they are warm. Mean­while, when it’s REALLY cold .. I throw on my bright pur­ple or orange “balga — hid­den com­fort” socks knabbed at Phidip­pi­des. One of the young hot­ties there sold me on these socks with an out­ra­geous price tag but they NEVER wear down, they breathe well, are soft and are toasty warm. How can you pass up those colors?
13. Kate says:

    November 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm

    Are we in dan­ger of frost­bite when we are out for 1 hour (and fif­teen min­utes)? Can I wing it for a few months with my cot­ton socks?
14. Mary Ellen says:

    November 30, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    You can wing it, Kate! My feet were totally frozen at Serenbe and I still have all my toes.

    Two days away feels like an eter­nity! See you all tomorrow.

    M.E.