Cold weather gear - gloves (Read 233 times)

Years (decades) ago when I lived in the Chicago area a sporting goods store (Vertel's?) used to sponsor a couple of "European Style Cross Country" events each year, and one of the freebies was a pair of very loose knit cotton gloves (any looser and they would look like the weave used in fish-net stockings).  I loved those gloves and found them perfect to wear from the low thirties all of the way down to below zero.  After I moved to New York in 1992, and then to New Hampshire a decade later, I wore them year after year after year, until they literally fell off my hands.  Last year I had to buy a nice pair of poly pro Asics gloves and they're simply too darned hot to wear unless the OAT is well below zero.

My problem is that I just hate wearing them. It is fine for maybe a mile and then I get sweaty and feel confined and want to rip them off. Then I have no place to put them.

You could get these:

Or, more seriously, you could get gloves with no finger tips.  It might make you feel less fingerly claustrophobic, but I'll say you're finger tips will likely just fall off in the midwest winter.  I have an old pair of really thin UnderArmour gloves (finger tips have naturally fallen off on a few). They breathe well and keep me reasonably warm.  Realistically though, you're gonna just have to adjust to hand covers.  It's friggin cold.  You might also want to invest in some run-specific boxers to wear under your running tights.  I ran to work w/o them yesterday and it was 28 degrees.  My gentleman region almost didn't survive the wind.

For a cheap alternative, try wearing socks as mittens.  You can usually get a pair of polyester socks at a discount store for a buck or two.

+1

I started doing that this year since it just started getting cold here in NC. I have 2 really nice pairs of gloves somewhere, but I haven't been able to find them, except for 1 orphan. The socks on the hands have worked pretty good for temps in the low 40's and 30's and they cost me nothing since I already use them for my feet.

 

30s and 40s isn't cold!  You southerners.... :-)

Maybe you haven't heard; us Yankees ain't got no feel'ins. 

 

apparently high 60's are cold in San Diego, about to find out in 2 weeks.

you're not even to PR temps yet. Keep dropping!

Thanks for all of the tips, everyone.

Today was about 55 and it was absolutely perfect out. Ran a nice PR (not overall, but since getting back into shape) and didn't need anything.

I think it is the wind more than anything that is bothersome. Since I have a very loose "stance" for my hands I am going to try a mitten to give myself less restriction.

I wear these running gloves from Target, pretty good price & they do the job. My hands may get warm & sweaty after a while, but I can take them off & my hands are completely dry - the miracle of wicking. If I do take them off, I just hold them in my hands, or tuck them in my waistband. When it gets really cold, I double up & put a pair of regular fleece gloves on top. If it is that cold I am usually wearing a jacket, so have pockets to stash them if they need to come off.