In cycling, knee high socks are banned from competition. The highest socks can be up to its mid calf. They did this purely to protect the image of cycling because knee high socks simply look ridiculous. But in running, there is no such ban and runners everywhere in races look like dorks.
They look like dorks anyway.
Runners look like dorks without knee-hi socks, so there is no point in banning them.
Ban something because you think it's bad fashion? Makes sense. We should probably ban sweatbands, too. And women shouldn't be allowed to wear their hair in pig tails, because really...
Oh, and man buns. Those should also be an auto DQ.
this guy ran in knee high socks and owned everyone in that 20 miler. he ran 2:19 at london marathon.
Thigh-high should be required.
amnesia wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/E2bvHYY.jpgthis guy ran in knee high socks and owned everyone in that 20 miler. he ran 2:19 at london marathon.
An absolute fashion disaster. If runners want more money in running, they will need to stop looking like Steve Urkel. Who wants to sponsor runners that look like that? Sponsorship is all about image, which clearly most runners don't have a good one.
What about compression socks/sleeves? Some runners need them.
They should be required for women (or better: thigh-high). With arm warmers you really have something!
Well that's quite he logic. Have you been drinking?
Bitetounge wrote:
What about compression socks/sleeves? Some runners need them.
Need them or are they just placebos made up by marketing to part ways with dumb runner money?
Lazy Bum wrote:
In cycling, knee high socks are banned from competition. The highest socks can be up to its mid calf. They did this purely to protect the image of cycling because knee high socks simply look ridiculous. But in running, there is no such ban and runners everywhere in races look like dorks.
Only one man has vindicated these socks in a race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgdFrUjKppQ"Can he break TWENTYSEVEN?"
amnesia wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/E2bvHYY.jpgthis guy ran in knee high socks and owned everyone in that 20 miler. he ran 2:19 at london marathon.
Fast nerd. What's your point.
27min wrote:
Only one man has vindicated these socks in a race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgdFrUjKppQ"Can he break TWENTYSEVEN?"
"In what we think to be his 10k debut."
27min wrote:
Lazy Bum wrote:In cycling, knee high socks are banned from competition. The highest socks can be up to its mid calf. They did this purely to protect the image of cycling because knee high socks simply look ridiculous. But in running, there is no such ban and runners everywhere in races look like dorks.
Only one man has vindicated these socks in a race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgdFrUjKppQ"Can he break TWENTYSEVEN?"
Consider how much faster he could have run if he didn't wear these socks.
Oh? wrote:
Ban something because you think it's bad fashion? Makes sense. We should probably ban sweatbands, too. And women shouldn't be allowed to wear their hair in pig tails, because really...
Ban mullets.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?
