While I’m not necessarily disagreeing here, I will say, plastic zip ties become VERY brittle in cold weather and crack much easier than in warm weather. Above freezing temperatures and the plastics is malleable. Drop below freezing, you bend it just a bit more than it wants to and it’s going to crack right off.

This comes from years of having a green mesh privacy screen zip tied to the chain link fence around our yard. Every winter, about 50-60% of the zip ties crack just from the cold and the wind. So we have to keep a big bag on hand to replace them through the winter months. But we never have a problem with them snapping in warm weather.

Up until Covid, Worcester had half Marathons, I ran it a few times. I hope it comes back next year.