Scorpion_runner wrote:
During rain and wind, they are useless, and they restrict movement because they are not that stretchable. You can get injured trying to run in joggers, and they hold sweat, which generates weight.
Noting beats tights, long or short.
Good answer. The material of tights is of course much more stretchy, which means they move better on your body. If you have are wearing something past the knee, you want it to move right for fast running, and pants just don't do that.
Another bonus of the stretchy material is that you can easily warm up with tights on, wear shorts underneath and take the tights off for a workout or race without taking your shoes off. (And put them back on.) Living in a cold city, I always jog to my team's workouts with tights over shorts, take the tights off for the workout, and put them on again for the run home. Even with a zipper to the knee, a non-stretch tapered pant is usually too narrow to take off without taking shoes off.