Originally Posted by
gugie
You have heard of the old adage, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me? You're fighting an uphill battle here.
Yeah, I took the bait too many times, but did stop quite a while ago.
Originally Posted by
gugie
how does your synthetic gear smell after a few days on the road?
Generally as good as or better than the wool stuff that I have tried. Of my tech running shirts some tend to stink after a few days and some don't. On tour I take the ones that don't. Maybe I have weird body chemistry or something but wool never delivered the no stink promise for me. When I have taken wool on tour it was the stinkiest thing I had along and was slow to dry if it ever dried at all.
I come from a whitewater boating background that predated tech garments. I wore lots of wool, but was very happy when synthetics displaced it for me.
I tend to wear Nike DriFit or similar tech running tees that I find on sale for $6-12 at Ross or the Nike outlet. C9 stuff from Target is what I'd use if I didn't find good deals at Ross or the Nike outlet.
I find the tech tees to be easy to wash out in a sink (or a zip lock bag) and get them nearly dry quickly, so washing them can happen as often as water is available. I often take only one for a trip, so I take it off wash it out by hand and put it back on. There are time I wear them a few days without bothering to wash them though.