Shame of the full tights.

good stuff.

Shame wrote:

So I am finishing up a run in 30 degree weather, wearing full tights, windbreaker, hat and sunglasses. I normally hate wearing tights in broad daylight but when its this cold I swallow my pride. So as I am walking from the trail to my car this kid and his dad come by. The kids is like 4-5 years old and says "Hi", like little kids normally do to random strangers. I say "Hi" back and give him a wave. As they walk past me the kid says to his dad "Is that a boy or a girl?"

AHHHH, the shame of the tights.

we're still asking that question. well what are you?

Yeah, such a shame that a preschooler is confused over your gender. You should have shot back, "why, do you want to ask me out?" or "you must be a girl with that high-pitched voice." Back when I had long hair and a kid asked that, I figured that the parents were raising a sheltered or dumb kid.

Bohica wrote:

I figured that the parents were raising a sheltered or dumb kid.

or maybe because you looked like a chick

With my measurements? Only to an idiot or a desperate Letsrun poster.

When I was yer age, we had some hair on our legs. We didn't need those peter-pan-fancy-boy tights that you little pussies wear nowadays.

I don't understand wearing tights. There are nice running pants and, at 30 degrees, you might have been able to do half tights or just shorts.

Running pants have loose bottoms you can trip on. This happened to me before...I had the bottoms partially unzipped and stepped on the bottom of the pantleg and tripped. So now I either wear tights or shorts. Then again I'm a girl, so I don't have issues with wearing tights. How is wearing half tights (aka spandex shorts) any manlier than full tights? I guess if you're really that insecure you can wear shorts over tights like high schoolers do.

Typical dumb American. If you don't cover the connective tissue of your legs at those temps you are raising your injury risk.

Rocky IV wrote:

I don't understand wearing tights. There are nice running pants and, at 30 degrees, you might have been able to do half tights or just shorts.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

Running pants have loose bottoms you can trip on. This happened to me before...I had the bottoms partially unzipped and stepped on the bottom of the pantleg and tripped. So now I either wear tights or shorts. Then again I'm a girl, so I don't have issues with wearing tights. How is wearing half tights (aka spandex shorts) any manlier than full tights? I guess if you're really that insecure you can wear shorts over tights like high schoolers do.

I usually wear this top with my tights. I still feel like a man.

And here all this time I thought I was the only guy who wore that top.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

Running pants have loose bottoms you can trip on. This happened to me before...I had the bottoms partially unzipped

Well uhh, zip them up then! Or, did they become unzipped during running?

I don't think I've worn tights unless it was under 15F. Even then, I wore them under running pants.

Your stupidity never fails to amaze me.

I could have passed for a pretty girl when I was 13. I just grew one of those Pre fu-manchus and nobody made that mistake again.

Real men wear tights and smoke cigars on thier runs.

Rocky IV wrote:

I don't understand wearing tights. There are nice running pants and, at 30 degrees, you might have been able to do half tights or just shorts.

Can someone explain to me why running tights are a problem? Is it because most runners' have chicken legs and are self-conscious about revealing them in public? Is it because they feel vulnerable out in public due to their perceived frailness? Is it because they are incapable of not caring what other people think? Are they homophobic? Or maybe it's like TRG mentioned and they are nothing but a bunch of dorky highschoolers who wear shorts over their tights because they haven't had time to develop any semblance of self.

Function over fashion people and there can be no doubt that tights are infinitely more functional than running pants (whatever the hell those are) or running in baggy shorts at 30 degrees.

POD!!!!!!!!!!!

Harry Kooter wrote:

And here all this time I thought I was the only guy who wore that top.

wow...talk about insecure and worrying about what others think.

i usually wear the "loose" tights if it is below 40 degress. above 40 and i go with shorts.

function over form for sure.

and i hate running in running pants/warmups.

You wore tights when it was 30 degrees?!?!?!?!?!?! I only wear tights like someone above said below 20-15 degrees, anything warmer i just wearing running pants. I would kill for it to be 30 degrees the last few days, yesterday i ran and it was -6.