Here's the bottom line for the OP. You're an amateur. For an example, Bob Kennedy has raced and trained in half-tights. Numerous legitimate professional distance runners train and on occasion race in half-tights.
They DO serve a purpose. If you can't understand that, then you're hopeless.
And I 100% guarantee that you're not a very good runner...
There is nothing worse than wearing shorts over tights.
I think half tights are all good. I would wear them but I honestly don't think I am fast enough to do them justice. I'm sorry man, but you are 100% wrong.
maybe geb or bekele dont wear half tights, but tergat (not sure) or at least a large percentage of his kenyan team trains in half tights.
bottom line: many people think short shorts are gay, so who gives a f@#& if we run in half tights too? i honestly dont know of any good runners who are gay, so i say neither is gay as long as its for sport.
i think half tights feel great for training, but are a little restrictive for racing.
Half tights are great. I wear them more and more as I get a little older. (Still only in my mid twenties but find my legs don't like anything fast if it's below 40 or so anymore without half tights) I've only raced in them once but it was below zero. Anyway, I for one, have gotten past the fact that they look really bad, all I care is that they are functional. My girlfriend hates them, but she's still with me (at least last time I checked), and she's pretty cute.
Anyway, as far as the other issues discussed, shorts over half tights make you look like an insecure high school kid, if you're ok with that, then go for it. Capri's make you look like a girl, if you're ok with that, good for you.
Also, not that it matters but I'd be willing to bet that I'm faster than the OP at Mile, 3k and 5k, probably 10k too. And besides, Bolota Asmeron rocks speed suits in 5k's and he's got an A standard.
So here it is, if you're not secure enough to wear them, then don't, I prefer them to hamstring or quad issues from running fast in cold weather, and I refuse to look like an insecure high school kid, that ended 7 or 8 years ago.
Why the distinction between half-tights and full tights? Your OPINION is that half-tights make distance guys look like idiots. Explain the difference between the half/full thing. They both show a bulge(or maybe not), one just covers from the knee down.
I love these threads where running culture-nazis go crazy about how real runners only wear split shorts, with no shirt, no GPS, no ipod, etc.
Then they have to deal with videos of Meb, Hall, Ritz, and others--wearing half tights, using GPS, listening to ipods.
To the OP...dude, I mean come on...your getting all worked up in a tizzy over what people wear...there are worse things in the world, even the running world than half tights....
now here is my opinion
if someone is slower than you and wears half tights and you don't like half tights, tell them they look ridiculous
if someone is faster than you and you don't like half tights, suck it up, they are faster and therefore can do what they want when it comes to track....
based on this reasoning...which all humanity in some way or another uses, you should probably back off unless you are Alan Webb, Ryan Hall, etc...
good for training or not, i am a female and i do not find them the least bit attractive.
If this is the difference between me pulling or straining a quad or a hammy, you bet your ass I'm wearing half tights to run in...I'm too freaking old to afford getting hurt doing something I like.
Oh, so next time I go running, maybe I should get myself some 14-inch inseam basketball shorts in a XXL so I can run like a retard...
dont be like this guy:
http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2008/bostonmarathonv/imagepages/image91.php
Nice Try But No Cigar... wrote:
There is NOTHING worse than tights with shorts over them.
Sure there is: Perpetual adolescents who honestly believe their thoughts about how people dress for running are important enough to post about. Such drivel reveals the insecurities of the poster, nothing more.
Too many 13 year olds on this board.
I think it should just be a ban on Arkansas runners wearing them. They are too slow these days to warrent half-tights. IMO that is.
No joke, I know a dude that comes to practice with half a banana in his half tights. Once we're out of sight of the girls team he takes it out and throws it. He says, "an afternoon suggestion is good for morale." He has girls coming by our apartment all the time.
You have to be about 15 years old to make a thread about what other people are wearing. Seriously, this thread is embarrassing.
Grrrrrrr wrote:
Nice Try But No Cigar... wrote:There is NOTHING worse than tights with shorts over them.
Sure there is: Perpetual adolescents who honestly believe their thoughts about how people dress for running are important enough to post about. Such drivel reveals the insecurities of the poster, nothing more.
Too many 13 year olds on this board.
I'm not sure whether that was intended as an insult to me or the OP, but I still appreciate the irony:
You have read 3 pages of people talking about and debating running fashion before you post about how my/their thoughts about how people dress for running are not important enough to post about?
I'm sure you look fantastic with your basketball shorts on over your tights.
I think they are hot (no sarcasm intended). All men should be required to wear them at all times. I love bike shorts.
AdamLocked wrote: You have to be about 15 years old to make a thread about what other people are wearing.
But only 7 to go on a highly destructive joyride in your grandma's SUV? Something's very wrong here.
Seriously, this thread is embarrassing.
Yes indeedy - I cannot believe so many of my fellow runners are blind or indifferent to this atrocity. I hope most of you will come to your senses after a bit of reflection and a good night's sleep.