should dudes wear short shorts

"Porch Monkeys y hilljacks" en espanol por favor?

Rules of thumb: the bottom of the shorts should be lower than your balls, and the waist should be higher than the crease between your legs and your crotch.

I'm still wearing the full side cut, "real" shorts, but it's durn hard to find 'em anymore. Generally, I don't consider the people yelling at my fashion choices (who don't have to worry much in the shorts department, since their gut will cover whatever they wear down there, and they haven't seen their knees in years) as valid critics.

Geez, where did you get all that "...for gay men." stuff? Or where are you that the neighbors (or you) are so sensitive?

How do you go outside in the winter? Surely you don't wear tights or half-tights, do you?

What's a hilljack?

Since the Richard Simmons' shorts are too short (or whatever you are getting at)...what are you referring to as "decent running shorts?"

I wear from 3 1/2 inch inseam to 5 inch inseam. Shorts with pockets if I'm on trails all day. Regular (whatever that means to you and the forces for good in the community at large) running shorts if I'm on pavement.

I guess I am more concerned about my comfort while running than about making a fashion statement.

My old-fashioned mind allows me to buy shorts from Road Runner Sports online.

I would kill for the Nike PRs like Lopes is wearing.

That looks like an Asics logo on the singlet.

Stater of the Obvious wrote:

That looks like an Asics logo on the singlet.

Ahhh yes, but the shorts are Nikes ... Carlos knew. ;-)

Right behind Lopes that day.

John Treacy wearing the best shorts ever made. Classic Adidas 3 stripes split shorts.

Design hasn't changed in 20 years.

Stater of the Obvious wrote:

Right behind Lopes that day.

John Treacy wearing the best shorts ever made. Classic Adidas 3 stripes split shorts.

Design hasn't changed in 20 years.

Back in the day Sub 4 and Ron Hill made some of the shortest shorts you ever did see.

I pray for the Ethiopian gods of the 10k to wear the shortest of shorts. My dream would be for them to forsake shorts forever, and race godlike, glistening with sweat, around and around the oval, in singlet, shoes, and jockstrap. The crowning glory of a run would be them ripping the confining jocks from their African loins, and flinging them my way. Oh, how I would dance, hugging and chewing them, hoping to absorb their African goodness.

running shorts are supposed to be short. you wont ever see any "fast" runners wearing shorts with 4 inch inseams. if geb wears 'em then they are not too short. if you want to wear basketball clothing then go play basketball.

i saw a pretty fast kenyan running in knee length shorts the other day. how exactly to bunhuggers make you run faster?

man in black wrote:

running shorts are supposed to be short. you wont ever see any "fast" runners wearing shorts with 4 inch inseams. if geb wears 'em then they are not too short. if you want to wear basketball clothing then go play basketball.

of course they should!!

btw, that reminds me...someone posted a link to a website where you could get good old fashioned mylon tricot 1/2 splits for 7.99....i thought i had it bookmarked but i don't....anyone help!??

Eastbay always has some sort of deal with their products that their stock is low on, and I've bought shorts and a singlet for $7.99 there.

I wear short shorts. Actually it is to minimise physical discomfort. Maybe you can get away with it 5K?10K. But marathon your thighs chafing. I gave in and it is pretty comfortable.

The real question is not how short running shorts can be, but rather how long they can be and still be "shorts". Shorts should be short. That's why they're called "shorts". If they were meant to go down to your knees, they'd call them "kinda longs", but they're not, hence the name "shorts". Simple, right?

I say anything with an inseam beyond 2 inches and not side-split is not worth racing in. The purpose of shorts is to hide the goods from public view while offering a modicum of support with minimal restriction. Knee length "shorts" with cranked-up boxers might be stylish today, but they're far less effective for racing than the unstylish alternative. Form follows function. Do you want to run fast or look stylish?

Rynocologist wrote:

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,88729,00.jpg

Hey, is that Ben Johnson with Charlie Francis?

I was running at the local elementary school trails yesterday, and when I got back was walking to my car when some giggly pipsqueak 8 year old said to his parents" hee hee, look, he's naked"