xc runners required to wear basketball shorts

At my school my athletic director is making the cross country team wear a shirt at all times this year. We usually just run and take them off a few miles away but still.

threeinch inseams wrote:

In Florida's heat, these tops are fairly common among female runners during team warm-ups and cool-downs. But they are not supposed to be worn at any time within the competition area, Korhn said.

Topless xc? excellent

County athletic director? I'm not 100% sure, but I don't recall having any other retarded ADs besides our high school's own making asinine decisions about sports they know nothing about. I feel sorry for the kids.

Just wait till the County Athletic Director finds out what the swim team wears.

I am a female runner and I have always been fairly modest while I run (I'm not one to just run in a sports bra).

It's easy to find technical running clothes that make it just as cool to run with or without a shirt and generally, most of the time, the running shorts for women are plenty long for me. (but i'm only 5'2")

Afer having run cross country at college, most of the girls come to practice with nearly nothing on. On every run we took we had guys honking and yelling things out their car windows at us, strangly enough this upset the girls who were half nude.(it was bad enough one time we had a car full to guys follow about a block beind us the ENTIRE run!) Women wonder why it's dangerous for them to run by themselves, it's no wonder to me. If all women dress the way my teammates dress it's no wonder a lot more women aren't getting rape and murdered...hate to say it, but they're asking for it!

Modest runner

no, theyre not asking for it. all runners get yelled at. sorry, try to make yourself feel better some other way.

No, in that case it is clear the stalkers are doing something wrong, not that the women's team deserves to be stalked because they are running in what they find to be comfortable clothing.

I think the rule is appropriate for competition (I don't see any guys dying from the heat because theyre forced to race in singlets instead of jog-bras), and a 3-inch inseam is still fairly small (I don't think I've ever seen shorter than a 1-2 inch inseam). Although the rule is somewhat ridiculous, I definitely don't think it's negatively impacting anyone.

running naked or half naked or with a politically motivated tshirt whatever it is and some people will find it offensive/arousing/stimulating in some way or another. the point is you're running and they probably are not going to catch you. and if they do you're a piece of crap that deserves to be caught. personally if someone pulled some shit with me when I was running i would end their life and leave them lying dead on the side of the road like the garbage they are. unfortunately most women lack testosterone so I suggest carring a long knife or other sharp weapon in a holster around your waist, leg, arm, whatever. anyone pulls some shit you stab them in the face and slash their neck end of story. thank you. glad to have helped.

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You don't see men getting raped and murdered by women who can't control themselves after looking at a little skin. Men haven't evolved properly. There is something seriously wrong with them. It is wrong that women are unsafe around men

just a couple more years till we can get all women in burkas!

So, you're saying they are asking to be raped and murdered...great! Well, by all means we men must now go out and rape and murder all women runners who wear short shorts and sports bras. Ya know, since they're asking for it. God forbid anyone have freedoms in this country. What are we men going to do in the winter when the women are fully clothed because it's cold. Oh, it's a seasonal thing, kind of like hunting. Do men get an indoor season? Can we go around to health clubs and indoor track meets hunting for barely clothed women? Do I have to buy a license?

No woman is asking to be raped and murdered. Wearing shorts and a sports bra gives no man (or woman) any right to harm you. You have a right to wear what you would like to wear without giving invitations.

Is this guy related to Warren Jeffs or Osama Bin Laden.

Homophobia at it's best!

female runner I'm surprised you have such a calais (sp?) heart towards the female runners seeing that you are female. What's modest to you may not be modest to someone else. Besides all of that rape is not just an issue of sex it's a violation of another persons rights. Do you honestly think that a man would not rape a women because she was dressed in a 3-piece suit covering every area of her body. Apparently anyone who violates the rights of another human regardless to what they are wearing has a number of issues going on inside their head. I hope you never find yourself in that position and realize all the horror and fear and the loss of control you've just experienced at the hands of another person. I have!!! I hope to God you never will!!!!! It's at that moment one realizes clothes has nothing to do with it. I am emotionally fine after the ordeal and look at men individually and not by the acts of one. I just hope nothing ever happens to anyone that would put them into a position to learn mercy or compassion for someone else.

I wonder what the swim team is wearing?

Well said!

Please rethink your post it is very ignorant. Noone ASKS to be raped and murdered because of the way they dress.

Rape is not a crime of passion - it is not inspired by someones appearance. Rape is a crime of violence.

Feel free to be modest if you wish, but also feel free to allow your teammates the same type of freedom.

I doubt the catcalls will stop if you all wore basketball shorts and long shirts -- a group of young women running down the street is an invitation no matter what they wear.

bbshorts wrote:

Is this guy related to Warren Jeffs or Osama Bin Laden.

Homophobia at it's best!

I don't think you know what homophobia is.

What I want to know is what a "mid-rift" top is--something they wear in east Africa? Who is this guy's copy editor, anyway?

the mid-rift is between the north and south rifts, extending through kenya and ethiopia. it is evident that dressing like a kenyan will make one faster, thus it is clear that mid-rift tops should be banned as performance enhancers.