The Problem:

I plan on training through the winter this year, which means the only days off will be if the trail is frozen or under snow. I have all the gear for rain and fenders on my bike, but I have an issue with breathing cold air.
When the air drops into the low 50s I risk bronchitis and that can blow a training plan to hell when you lose a week or two (a left over from an injury in a mountain climb 3 decades previous where I breathed very dry/very cold air during a descent in a white-out).


I learned post injury to wear a baklava over my mouth and nose to remedy the mountain climbing injury and that worked for all climbs thereafter, but never when riding the bike. I think I’ve figured out why it didn’t. I wear glasses and when climbing while my glasses got as cold as the surrounding air, that air was quite dry due to elevation so the moisture in my breath rather than fogging my glasses got sucked up by the dry air. However, at near sea level the cold glasses work like a glass filled with ice and the moisture from my breath condenses on them fogging them up.


The Questions:

Are there cold air breathing masks, or other product/ ideas, that have worked for you when riding a bike in cold air, to warm/moisturize the air you breathe?


Are there any products that have worked for you to keep glasses from fogging on a typical low 40s day riding in the rain?


Thanks for any help/advice you can provide.