Why do older runners wear such goofy clothes?

we wear what we like!

Could you please explain to me why in general one person would care at all what another person wears?

You guys are kind of missing the ball here. Runners wearing running shorts while running is not at all weird. That's not what I was talking about. My example was of a guy who wore tights to the gym when it was warm out (and in the gym of course). He wouldn't have looked goofy had he been out running in sub freezing temps. Lots of runners wear tights in that weather. He looked weird because he wore them to lift weights in a 72 degree gym. Someone would look just as strange if they wore a sweatshirt to run on a treadmill somewhere, unless maybe they were a wrestler trying to lose some water weight.

Is it common for the high school girls to walk around at cross country meets with bras (nothing else on top) and cotton sweats with the waistband rolled down to just above the crack of their asses?

I saw an entire team dressed like this a few weeks ago. What are they trying to accomplish from this? The slut look?

I don't think the OP is talking about people wearing old gear- I think he's talking about the old people that look like they're intentionally wearing a costume. It's not a "I don't care what you think" attitude, it's a "look at me, I'm an unstable eccentric weirdo" attitude. There's a big difference between wearing a Dolphin shorts/painter's gloves combo and a leopard-print tights/coonskin cap combo. Many, many old people opt for something more along the lines of the latter. I share the OP's confusion.

So wearing running tights in a hit gym is more like leopard print tights/coonskin cap than Dolphin shorts/painter's gloves??

Look-- they guy was probably going out for a run after lifting. Or maybe he wasn't going to be able to run and wanted to work up a sweat while he lifted.

It just doesn't matter (says the proud wearer of shorts and dress shoes)...

What are you guys talkin about "tights" for? I still run outside in the cold with shorts over long-johns and tube socks on my hands and arms. All cotton for me baby.. not high tech fancy shmancy shirts either.

letsrun personality wrote:

There are plenty of older runners wearing some of the strangest things, and not cool-strange, just strange-strange.

Perhaps they've outgrown the notion that a twit like you is the arbiter of between "cool-strange" and "strange-strange".

A lot of them have also outgrown the notion of "common decency"- I don't want to see your fat ass squeezed into nearly transparent neon tights.

TippingPoint wrote:

I know. I see these 70 year olds who haven't purchased any new running stuff since Olivia Newton John was in the top 10.

Wow, I didn't even know she ran. What region?

Because when we were young we were young dorks runners now we are old dork runners.

When you are 50 a young runner [dork] will say "why is that old dork wearing the shell necklace,livestong braclet and the basketball shorts...what an old dork."

I'd laugh at you then,but I'll be dead.

Because when we were young we were young dorks runners now we are old dork runners.

When you are 50 a young runner [dork] will say "why is that old dork wearing the shell necklace,livestong braclet and the basketball shorts...what an old dork."

I'd laugh at you then,but I'll be dead.

She has run a 2:09 800m and 1:28 half marathon. Pretty good range !

Yeah... I don't get the HS age kids with the pants so low there being held up by their dick. It must be so hard to walk... gay, gay, gay.

You must be one of the boy fags I see wearing Abercrombie, Hollister, the gay, baggy, waist rider jeans, and the other fashionable hoodies and what not when you're not in your knee-length ghetto shorts.

JezusHCharist, if we paid that much attention to what we wore, and paid that kind of money for it, when we were young, we'd be sure to be smoking a pole and rump wrangling every weekend. We had tolerance for the gay community, and you'd be one of them.

No. I'm not missing the ball at all. I'd assume he was wearing what he wanted to for some reason that made sense to him, that it's not hurting anything, and I still wonder why you'd even think about it let alone start a thread.

Grease is the word wrote:

TippingPoint wrote:

I know. I see these 70 year olds who haven't purchased any new running stuff since Olivia Newton John was in the top 10.

Wow, I didn't even know she ran. What region?

I've never gotten over my mad mad crush on Olivia Newton-John. I've got chills.. they're multiplyin! Ahhh.. those were the days.

this is kinda true. Basically once you are older and married you don't really care what other people think. There is no chance of getting any strange so it is easier to just give up and concentrate on the working out part.

Show some respect wrote:

It's because we don't care what you punks think. We just run to run.

F. Booth wrote:

Is it common for the high school girls to walk around at cross country meets with bras (nothing else on top) and cotton sweats with the waistband rolled down to just above the crack of their asses?

I saw an entire team dressed like this a few weeks ago. What are they trying to accomplish from this? The slut look?

This thread was supposed to highlighting the negative side of running fashion.