Inverno Gloves

Tracksmith was founded in Boston in 2014 by Matt Taylor — a Yale track alumnus and former Head of Running at Puma — and Luke Scheybeler, co-founder of Rapha. The premise was simple and stubborn: the amateur Runner, the post-collegiate competitor, the sub-3 marathoner with a day job, had been forgotten by a sport that only sold to pros and beginners. The debut collection in 2014 was two pieces, the Van Cortlandt Singlet and Van Cortlandt Shorts, and a decade on the Van Cortlandt fabric is still the racing line, the Cornell-derived diagonal sash is still the mark of a scoring athlete, and the hare — drawn by British illustrator Gary Chalk and named Eliot after Boston's legendary runners' bar — is still embroidered at the chest. Boston-born, Ivy-sashed, published in its own quarterly magazine (METER), and honoring the Amateur Spirit upon which the sport was founded.

A merino-blend running glove — 40% wool, 41% nylon, 19% spandex — cut close so it layers under a shell mitt without bunching. Touchscreen-compatible thumb and index, silicone grip at the palm for water bottles and phone grabs, embroidered hare at the cuff. Inverno is Italian for winter. These are for January. Italian for winter, true to the Tracksmith fabric-language vocabulary — Inverno, Bravio, Nilit — and at this price point a ceiling-grade technical glove for sub-freezing base-building.