Running with surgical gloves on

Tom77

Ran the Bristol Half Marathon on Sunday. Waiting in the pen at the start and a few minutes before we're due to go I notice the guy in front of me pulling on a pair of latex gloves, the kind of thing your GP might wear when he checks your prostate.

Seemed like rather an odd thing to do. It was a fairly warm day, I can't recall seeing anyone else wearing gloves of any description. Anyone know (or would like to speculate) what the reason was for wearing them?

[Deleted User]

So he can open the bottles of water on the way round without sweaty hands, and not drop them? ??????

God you can only hope it's not something more sinister. Awkward

VDOT52

Maybe he was a paramedic who knew it'd be faster to run than try to get an ambulance past all the fun runners.

cougie

Clearly he's gonna do a murder half way round. The perfect crime.

Screamapillar

Maybe he knows someone else is going to do a murder and he's the SOCO?

 

RicF

Sounds like he was planning to check the back passage of suspected drug mules. No doubt he'd heard that loads of runners were doing drugs.

FerrousFerret

Raynaud's syndrome?

cougie

You mean he thinks he's a French car??

VDOT52

Or he may have been an OCD mime artist pretending to be a runner.

Kattefjaes

Maybe he was a frontier proctologist?

Nayan

body cavity exam?

Cal Jones

Perhaps he's one of those paranoid types who thinks he'll catch germs off the cups passed out by volunteers.

VDOT52

^^^ I had thought that myself, but thought that mentioning it would make me seem mental too ^^^

Nayan

If you're so worried about germs on the cups that you'd only touch them wearing gloves why are you drinking out of them?

VDOT52

Is he here then?

[Deleted User]

My first thought was he gets cold hands and doesn't want to carry woolen gloves all the way round so just gets a disposable pair.

But imagine how much sweat would collect inside those.

Nessie

Collecting his own sweat in case the bottled water runs out?

 

Ewww.  I wish I hadn't thought of that now...........

VDOT52

Perhaps knowing he would need a trip to a portaloo early on and thought that binning the gloves would be quicker than washing his hands?

Nessie

Ooh, you might be on to something there, VDot!

Cal Jones

The other possibility was that he had cold hands at the start and wanted some gloves he could bin as he warmed up. It usually takes my hands about two miles or so to warm up on cooler days.