Originally Posted by
staehpj1
Yeah, I took the bait too many times, but did stop quite a while ago.
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.
That's it, I know what's going on now. My wife often tells me that I need to take a shower, I just plain ol' stink, and it gets on everything.
Except my wool. Maybe I just prefer the odiferous smell of wool? Maybe I learned to like it as a kid, whereas I think Vegemite stinks, and my father in law (who grew up in Australia) thinks it smells just fine.