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Running kit made in small runs at Garrow Mill in West Yorkshire. Six pieces, four fabrics, no seasons and no drops. Every one of them sat on the bench until the people testing it ran out of complaints.

Shop the six pieces What it’s made of

Est. 2014Cut in ArdsleighShips worldwide

A runner photographed from directly overhead, in black kit on grey asphalt, with a long shadow thrown across the road.

No seasons. No drops. If a piece is on this page it is because it works, and it will still be here next spring in the same three colours.

The only question that actually matters

What do I wear at 11°C?

A runner in a singlet on a dry track, kicking up dust in hard sunlight.

A runner in a shell jacket and tights crossing deep snow below a pine forest.

The good bit Long sleeve, bare legs. Get this one wrong in either direction and you will be fine again within four minutes.

Drag the temperature — the weather follows

−5°13°30°

What we’d put on

The range, entire

Six pieces. That is the shop.

Most running brands carry two hundred SKUs and hope you find the four that suit you. We would rather cut four fabrics properly and stand behind six garments, in three colours, indefinitely.

Crosswind

£215

2.5-layer shell with a hood that stays on your head at 40 km/h, because we tested it in a wind tunnel we did not have to pay for.

148 g In stock

Half Light

£135

Winter tight in a 240 power knit, with retroreflective piping down the outside of the calf where a passing driver actually looks.

265 g In stock

Hard Frost

£95

Grid-fleece long sleeve. Waffled inside so it holds warm air in the grid and lets sweat leave through the channels between.

178 g In stock

Dew Point

£52

A singlet that is mostly hole. Bonded hems, no side seam at all, and a back panel open enough to see the label through.

68 g In stock

Dry Spell

£68

Five-inch split short in the shell’s own 40-denier yarn, woven bare instead of laminated. Two zip pockets, both of which sit still.

74 g In stock

Low Sun

£38

Five-panel cap cut from the offcuts of everything above it. A brim short enough to see the ground and long enough to stop the glare.

41 g In stock

Fabric

We buy four cloths. That is the whole list.

Two of them come from the same mill in Biella and one of them we waited fourteen months for. Every piece in the range is cut from one of these four, which is why the range is six pieces and not sixty.

GR‑118 Grid fleece118 g/m² · 52% recycled
Knitted as a waffle so the pile sits in islands with channels between them. Warm air stays in the islands, sweat leaves through the channels. It is the only fleece we found that did not go slack after forty washes, and we washed nine of them forty times to find that out.
AX‑96 2.5-layer laminate96 g/m² laminated · 128 g/m² bare
Rated to 20,000 mm of water, which is more rain than Yorkshire has ever managed. We did not buy it for that. We bought it for the 20,000 g of vapour it passes in a day, because the jacket you take off is the jacket that failed. The same 40-denier yarn, woven double and left unlaminated, is the short and the cap.
MN‑92 Open mesh knit92 g/m² · single jersey
Mostly hole, held together by a knit structure fine enough to survive a race number pinned through it. It weighs almost nothing as a finished garment and you will spend the first mile checking you put it on.
PW‑240 Power knit240 g/m² · four-way
Dense enough to be opaque when you crouch to tie a lace, which is a lower bar than the industry clears. Recovers to within two per cent of its cut length after a hundred hours on the leg.

The full cloth notes

A runner seen from behind on a gravel track climbing towards a grey mountain ridge.

Field notes

Fourteen people, asked to be unkind.

The test group is not a focus group

Fourteen runners across Yorkshire, the Cairngorms and one very unhelpful person in Singapore. They are paid, they keep the kit, and they are explicitly asked to write down what annoyed them rather than what they liked. Six pieces have shipped. Eleven have not.

Why the seams moved

The first Dew Point had a shoulder seam where every vest has a shoulder seam, and every tester with a hydration pack came back with the same red line across the same place. It took four rounds to move it forward by eleven millimetres. That is the entire reason this company exists.

What we will not do

No seasonal colours. No limited runs. No fabric we cannot name the mill for. If a piece here is replaced it will be because it was beaten, not because it is March.

A close view of a runner's legs and shoes mid-stride on a dirt track.

Sizing

Two fits, and we say which.

Every piece is cut either close or easy, it says so on the page, and it does not change between colours. Sizes run 1 to 6 with the chest and waist measurement printed beside each one, in centimetres, because a letter is not a measurement.

Size chart