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Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon
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 2008-08-19 7:42 PM |
Extreme Veteran  909   Westchester, NY |  Subject: Gloves for the Mens Health UrbanathlonOK gang, I have one for ya.. i'll be doing the NYC Men's Health Urbanathlon in September. They have added a new obstacle - the monkey bars ! add that to marine hurdles (5ft high) and the stairs, I was interested in finding out what type of gloves anyone would suggest I wear. Last year I wore football gloves (the sticky on palm ones) - while they were great on the marine hurdles, they were more than useless on the stairs. What I would need is something that is good with sweat and can grip both steel and wood. Cycle and running gloves are no good for this type of event. http://www.menshealthurbanathlon.com/ |
| 2008-08-19 8:44 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
Elite 3683   Whispering Pines, North Carolina | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon |
| 2008-08-19 9:25 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
Extreme Veteran 550 Vine Grove, KY | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Who needs gloves? I sense a string of HTFU posts coming....just wait for them. |
| 2008-08-19 11:07 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
Champion 7821 Brooklyn, NY | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Gloves? Rub your hands with dirt and then spit on them, Sally. |
| 2008-08-19 11:25 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
Expert 937 Traverse Cityish | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Full finger mountain bike gloves? I hate half finger gloves as they slip all over the place, but full finger gloves are very useful. While you nixed cycling gloves, take a look at the palms of differnt ones. I have some Adidas gloves that grip like crazy and some fox ones that do well too. The Pearl fullies pretty much suck though. Edited by Nelg 2008-08-19 11:26 PM |
| 2008-08-20 9:38 AM in reply to: #1615340 |
Extreme Veteran 909 Westchester, NY | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Nelg - 2008-08-19 11:25 PM Full finger mountain bike gloves? I hate half finger gloves as they slip all over the place, but full finger gloves are very useful. While you nixed cycling gloves, take a look at the palms of differnt ones. I have some Adidas gloves that grip like crazy and some fox ones that do well too. The Pearl fullies pretty much suck though. hmmm.. full finger cycle gloves, now why didnt I think of that ? probably because my winter gloves are big and weather-proof.. |
| 2008-08-20 3:47 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
Expert 938 Haddam, CT | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Cool event...I always wondered why, though, there wasn't a women's version? |
| 2008-08-20 11:46 PM in reply to: #1614824 |
| New user 153 | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon Fox mountain bike gloves. This will sound odd but another option would be those gardening gloves that are stretchy cotton but the palms are all blue rubber very sticky, it's what people use to climb the cables on the back of half dome i would try either of those two. |
| 2008-08-21 7:17 AM in reply to: #1617149 |
Master 1655 NJ | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon lobstergirl - 2008-08-20 4:47 PM Cool event...I always wondered why, though, there wasn't a women's version? women compete also - it's not just for boys  ...sounds very cool but i have zero upper body strength and have no idea how to do the marine hurdles. |
| 2008-08-21 3:13 PM in reply to: #1618082 |
Extreme Veteran 909 Westchester, NY | Subject: RE: Gloves for the Mens Health Urbanathlon kristinc0916 - 2008-08-21 7:17 AM lobstergirl - 2008-08-20 4:47 PM Cool event...I always wondered why, though, there wasn't a women's version? women compete also - it's not just for boys ...sounds very cool but i have zero upper body strength and have no idea how to do the marine hurdles.marine hurdles are like regular hurdles.. just 5 ft. high.. you have pull yourself up and over .. |
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