Winter running gloves

Forget "running" gloves. Get ski gloves. They work much better.

Wearing running gloves are OK in the winter but make sure that you wear a wind-breaker mitt over top. You can buy them or make my own. Take an old nylon running jacket that you no longer use or buy one at a thrift shop. Place your hand up the sleeve until the elastic cuff is well past your wrist. Mark your hand in the shape of a mitt with a chalk or a pen. Be generous. Repeat with the other hand, then cut "the Mitt" and sew it up along the outlined border. No more cold hands.

I also have poor circulation and used train regularly in -20f. I had a pair of asics mittens that were wind proof and very warm. On the really cold days I would put a thin pair of gloves underneath them and my hands would stay warm.

They were similar to these but I'm not sure if they have the inner linings

http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1189122/ASICS-All-In-One-Mitt.jsp?ci_mcc=ci&srccode=cii_17588969&cpncode=33-348635278-2&CID=shopping15

If they have the linings you'll need to pull them out after you wash them or sweat a lot cause they'll be too wet the net day. If these are just the outter shell you could get thin gloves to wear inside and you should be fine...

but as others have said good a good pair of ski gloves should be good as well

Two of you suggested "ski" gloves. Can you recommend a pair?

Also, sorry mr. panda. Not looking to make my own

I also have poor circulation. Mittens are a much better choice for people with poor circulation. Even the best ski gloves will separate your fingers and squeeze them. With mittens, you can cup your fingers together so each finger helps keep the other fingers warm.

I wear my hunting hybrid mittens. The mitten part unvelcros into half gloves. Keeps my hands sweating into the lows 10s to even 0 degrees. Unflap them for when they're too warm.

Cross country ski gloves work well. Something like this:

http://www.sail.ca/en/catalogue/clothing/cross-country-skiing/23582/classic-ii/

I bought these a few years ago and they work great down to -20F (sub zero I put hand warmers between the layers for the first few miles). Don't know if you can still buy them...

http://epic-run.com/brooks-utopia-2-mittens/

Looks like the replacement version:

http://www.brooksrunning.com/en_us/utopia-3-in-1-mitten/280233.html

Runner10023 wrote:

Two of you suggested "ski" gloves. Can you recommend a pair?

Also, sorry mr. panda. Not looking to make my own

I have an absurd number of gloves accumulated from various activities including downhill and nordic skiing, cold weather cycling, motorcycling, windsurfing, kayaking, and so forth. About the only specific quality one needs in a glove for running is that it fits closely enough that it doesn't want to slide off with the back and forth open hand characteristic of running. Pretty much anything will do which means you can go Walmart and buy something that looks like a mitten and it will work well enough.

This is probably also a good point to repeat the old outdoors-man's saw, "If your hands are cold, put on a hat." One's extremities get cold as a result of the body's attempt to maintain core temperature, so your hands might be cold because the rest of you isn't warm enough.

Runner10023 wrote:

Hello. I have absolutely terrible circulation in my hands, and they basically froze every time I ran in the consistent 20 degree dark manhattan winter.

Can anyone recommend the warmest gloves/mittens out there? I cannot have a repeat of last winter.

First of all, don't be a whiner.

New York isn't cold. 20 degrees would be a warm day in the winter where many of us run.

You certainly don't need or want "the warmest gloves/mittens out there."

I'd recommend asking a friend who lives somewhere with a real winter to send you a basic pair of windbreaking mitts. (The kind that kids wear to play with their hands IN SNOW in -20 for hours on end.) You can get these for $20 in any general clothes or grocery store. I'm in Canada so I don't know all of your stores but going on TV ads Walmart seems popular in the US. You get the idea.

Put on any thin gloves under those huge mitts. Enjoy.

Yo-Frenchy why you being such a dick. Seemed like a good question everybody's has different circulation in there hands.