BYU men had olive oil on their arms and legs today?

Well done.

It works, but the temp was in the upper 30's and not windy. And it's not like they are from the south and not used to cool weather. This was either for show, or the coach thought the team needed a mental boost.

They did it last time they won over NAU too.

Cute joke, although 5 of their 7 are married and are regularly getting more action than the rest of you losers combined.

The area behind BYU’s starting box on a cold day always resembles Diddy’s bathroom with all the oil bottles thrown around.

The process in which they put on the olive oil is called soaking.

The fact that no one has mocked the obvious shows how little y’all know about Mormons….

Here we go again. Now every hight school runner is going to be covering themselves with olive oil before every race next fall.

Yeah, my old-school coaches (both HS and College) had us do that, and occasionally Icy Hot, back in the 90s. I always thought it was stupid and unnecessary. But had to go along with it. Made for really miserable van/bus rides home. Horrible sitting there for hours covered in that stuff. It would only come off with lots of scrubbing in the shower.

we used to use vaseline

I'm not so sure about that. Clinger got married about 12 years ago.

Or how incredibly gullible you are to believe such nonsense.

He learned that at a Diddy Freak Off.

Cyclists use product called embrocation for winter races. It has the benefit of a barrier over the skin but also includes "warming" agents. Personally I hated the stuff, but its pretty commonly used and maybe applicable to running too. Just be careful getting it anywhere sensitive (everyone who's tried it has a bad embro story)!

Embrocation is great for running. Rub it on hamstrings and around the quads/knees, ready to go.

Funny enough, I have wondered if something like this would be useful for keeping warm when racing in cold weather. I must be having some form of cryptomnesia because I know I’m not the first person to think of this. On this line of thinking, I have thought of spraying pam (oil based cooking spray) on my racing shoes in wet/snowy/muddy weather to keep the water out, has anyone tried this, if you have did it work?

It has a pretty modest impact, but can help a little. It can take the edge off the wind or a light rain, like if you're on the edge of racing in a singlet, go for for the olive oil. But it won't hold off a blizzard.

Runnerduud, I did mock the obvious in post #21 above but it got removed. Go figure.

OED, I don't have to "believe such nonsense[sic]" secondhand because I was Mormon, I attended the temple probably hundreds of times in the 1980s and 1990s before they watered down the endowment ceremony to remove many of the disturbing elements that were stolen from Masonry.

It's a cult. #ExMoAndProud