I found out the best part of wearing those shorts today at practice . . . getting screamed at by the girls track team every time I run by.
I found out the best part of wearing those shorts today at practice . . . getting screamed at by the girls track team every time I run by.
BigSnoopDogg wrote:
I found out the best part of wearing those shorts today at practice . . . getting screamed at by the girls track team every time I run by.
Good screams or bad screams?
i used to be on a team like that...and i used to wear shorts that came down to just above my knee and i thought they were short. I wear nike racing shorts (you can find em on eastbay...full split), and frankly feel comfortable as hell. i havent gotten any complaints from girls yet...
good screams . . . I would get great screams from my ex gf (runner from a school with a REAL distance program) if she saw me in these.
cip wrote:
Anyone notice how many more outfits are offered for women in the running catalogs. Take a look at Road Runner Sports or National Running Center catalogs. 2x as many pages for women.
Yes, that's true but it's almost impossible to find split shorts for women, too. I'm down to my last two pair and haven't been able to find replacements. If anyone has any sueggestions....
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skylon wrote:
The New Zealand splits from the late 70's/early 80's rocked. Screw what people think...our society is so screwed up & uptight that if you're even showing your knees when you wear shorts you're an exhibitionist. I'd run naked if I could....not that anyone would like that.
Agree - these shorts rocked.
The guy who wore the shortest shorts was Randy Jackson from Wisconsin, Steepler. He was about 6'2" and 115 lbs. and those shorts he wore looked close to a thong....definately cool.
Short, split shorts look great on skinny runners and this baggie crap has to go. Makes me wonder how a person runs in those things - looks like there gonna get tangled up.
During the summer every run is met with screaming from girls out of cars. Sometimes two or three times during a run. There's just something about a guy running shirtless in short shorts that girls dig. Aside from the "woooos" and "nice ass" remarks my favorite of all time has been "nice package!"
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jmoss:
your info was great. the Raceready shorts look awesome, just ordered 2 pair. no j-bras though (?)
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IMHO it\'s really hypocritical that there are a load of guys who like to wear long basketball shorts or biker shorts for practice and some even for meets and they\'re allowed to do this when there\'s usually a mandatory bunhugger policy for girls at the same school.
At my school the guys also wear track pants or tights in the winter - but we still have to wear tiny Nike bunhuggers. Why can\'t you guys show a little flesh too?
BigSnoopDogg wrote:
Also got pants'd about five times.
Who wears anything under their shorts? just out of curiosity. Not me anyway, i think that lining is there for a reason. Unless these guys' sexual orientation is highly suspect, i'd think they wouldn't pants you any more if you did likewise. Plus it'd be another way to impress the ladies.
Oh, also, a good thing about all those gallowalker types is that they don't want to stand out from the masses, so all the good snazzy shorts are usually on the clearance racks. I mean, $8 dollars! how can you beat that!?
Among the high school guys, it seems that the track runners get more frosted when they have to wear real running shorts than do the cross country guys. I count it as more evidence that many high school track programs are just thinly disguised spring football programs.
Another thing about ?athletic? clothing design that caters to people who super-size their fries with their Big Macs but are self-conscious about their corpulence: our high school sponsors the state cross country meet and we get to keep part of the proceeds from selling the official meet T-shirts. Every year we beg the state high school activities association, who supplies the shirts, to provide lots of small and medium sizes and fewer XXLs. It never works. Last year we got no small sizes, a dozen mediums, and hundreds of XLs and XXLs. No lie. The handful of shirts that actually fit runners, especially the girls, sold instantly, leaving hundreds of runners to shell out for these huge mu-mus.
Finally, I wonder how committed most of us are to the comfort-and-function-over-fashion argument. In hot weather most of the guys in short-to-medium length triathlons do the ride and run in their racing swim suits. Anything else is hotter and/or creates more drag, and certainly adds time to the transition.
Take the lining out of a pair of (running) racing shorts, put ?em on and whatta ya got? More comfort, more freedom, less drag. Basically, a racing swim suit.
Remember the running magazine ad where the guy is holding a Speedo-type suit with the caption, ?Not that I would, but it?s nice to know I could??
Yeah, functional running shorts don?t flatter the average American body. But we runners, even the hard-body guys on whom you could roller-skate, must be somewhat insecure about our bodies or else we?d all be doing our hot weather running in Speedos.
[quote]weaseldb wrote:
Unless these guys' sexual orientation is highly suspect, i'd think they wouldn't pants you any more if you did likewise. [quote]
All of the guys who did it are football players who are on the track team during the offseason. Their sexuality is definetly in question. Further Evidence includes
1. Screaming "WHY THE FUCK ISN'T EVERYONE NAKED YET?" while showering after practice
2. Trying to get younger runners to touch their cocks
3. Talking about raping other men in the ass every day
This is so true. It has been a pet peeve of mine since moving to the US a few years ago. I showed up to practice the first day in running shorts and received endless amounts of shit from other "runners" wearing soccer and basketball shorts. Fucking wankers.
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Wow, not a single person has gotten this right so far.
Listen up people. No one wears short shorts anymore for one reason and one reason only - they look gay. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. If you want to look gay, you should wear them. No big deal. But I've heard gay runners have this very debate amongst themselves. Short shorts are gay. And since non-homosexual males do not want to look homosexual, they do not wear short shorts.
It's like a single earring in the right ear.
I don't wear them for training because I don't want to send out mixed signals.
what? wrote:
Wow, not a single person has gotten this right so far.
Listen up people. No one wears short shorts anymore for one reason and one reason only - they look gay.
No, actually it?s you that?s missing the point.
They don?t ?look gay.? Some people have simply decided that. Anybody over the age of 18 has a long enough memory to realize that styles change. Look at pictures of hoopsters from 25 years ago. Supershort, tight shorts on guys who were muy macho. Back then, if you wore the freaking tents people call ?shorts? these days, people would have said you were gay. Go back farther, and shorts were fuller cut, although nowhere near as stupid as today.
They are not ?gay? as if it?s some kind of fact. They?re simply out of style, and kids don?t want to wear things which are out of style.
But the real point is that they?re a piece of athletic equipment. Why is it not appropriate for people to wear the equipment designed for the sport in question? Those fruity baseball knickers or football knickers never change, wrestling uniforms are pretty, umm, unusual looking, and hockey players wear garters. The expectation is that kids will wear them, no questions asked. No reason we should be different.
what? wrote:
Wow, not a single person has gotten this right so far.
Listen up people. No one wears short shorts anymore for one reason and one reason only - they look gay. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. If you want to look gay, you should wear them. No big deal. But I've heard gay runners have this very debate amongst themselves. Short shorts are gay. And since non-homosexual males do not want to look homosexual, they do not wear short shorts.
It's like a single earring in the right ear.
I don't wear them for training because I don't want to send out mixed signals.
i bet you're in high school, right? wait until you get out of high school and find out that every serious runner, beyond the high school level, wears running shorts, which are, by nature, short. They don't do it because it looks good or because it doesn't, they do it because it allows them to train most effectively and comfortably, and if you continue to run seriously after high school, you will probably find yourself wearing short shorts soon enough. and i will laugh at you. actually, i laugh at you now, haha