A few of us were just talking about gloves on Saturday morning. My favorite running gloves are the white cotton gloves that the PGXC series gave out one year. Unfortunately, that was long enough ago that the wrist elastic is gone and they’re getting some holes in the fingers. Something like these, which are apparently meant to be disposable, though I find that somewhat offensive given how many years they lasted for me. Maybe we should do a bulk order of these, although I think they’re one-size-fits-all, which works well with my men’s medium hands, but might not for others.
https://www.wearebaysix.com/products/assorted-cotton-throw-away-running-gloves
I’ve tried to replace them a couple of times with fancy modern gloves, but none have worked nearly as well. That includes fleece gloves, nylon stretchy gloves, and fancy ones with wind-blocking. The problem in every case, I think, is that they’re meant to fit snugly, and as a result, there isn’t as good an air barrier next to my hands. I keep trying them and keep being somewhat disappointed.
I have Reynaud’s Syndrome, so I have trouble with my fingers until I warm up halfway through a run, and the cotton gloves were good down to about 20º. Once it got too much below that, I’d put a mitten shell on top of the cotton gloves and could go down to single digits pretty comfortably. I had a pair of GoreTex mittens from the 1980s running brand Moss Brown, and then I picked up another pair from Road Runner Sports a decade or so later, but they had both disintegrated from age and use. Happily, last year I was able to find another mitten shell at the Bushtakah outdoor store in Ottawa (our favorite place for winter gear because Canadians giggle at what we think of as cold weather). You can get them at Amazon too: