I ran in a cotton t-shirt for the first time in 15 years yesterday

You mean Lacoste?

Nutsack McGee wrote:

This will become a good thread tomorrow (after some dummies blindly try this and come back with mondo chafage). Not a good tip for the nip.

Only a problem if you're chubby like me. The key is to buy New Skin and paint it all over those nips!

Juice Springsteen wrote:

But they weren’t free, you spent money on the race entry fees for all of those.

I never said they were free. They do have the value of the shirts I would have had to buy though.

Karitu wrote:

I really don't understand why overpay for such things. It's not even about its properties, but about the brand that produces it. If you remove the Nike logo, then its price will drop by half, if not more. For sports, I use the most common T-shirts that are sold in any clothing store. It is much more difficult to choose a T-shirt that you wear every day. I don't like plain T-shirt, but I don't like bright ones either. I love to wear T-shirts with different prints. They are very original and give a certain mood. I have not been to an offline clothing store for a long time, since I buy everything online. Lately I have been using lionlegion to order t-shirts. If you are interested, then visit this site, maybe you will find something cool that you like.

https://lionlegion.co.uk/

Where can I find some more feedback?

Hehe. Not sure how anyone in their right mind would pay over $5 for these "tech" shirts made in Chinese sweatshops. Guess some people just love wearing a petroleum derivative. I for one would rather not wear industrial chemicals on my skin and certainly would not appreciate the skanky smell that occurs within 5 minutes of wearing one of those.

What a marketing scheme huh?

Love the feel of cotton, but I can't run in it. Too much sweat and, more importantly, too much chafing. If I did 8 miles in a cotton shirt I would be bleeding.

I am pretty much 100% singlet in the current weather, but I wear a lot of cotton undershirts in the Spring and Fall.

I have some nice winter tech shirts, bu they are all merino or capilene. I don't understand the desire for the plastic shirts I see a bunch of people running in.

It comes down to how much you sweat and how bad the dew point is. At a certain point, you'll overwhelm the material and it is much nicer having a wet shirt that is thin cotton shirt than plastic.

I have some 60/40 poly/cotton running shirts and singlets. Really thin and light, dosen't start smelling and feels almost like cotton. They don't become waterlogged or "stiff" like cotton when wet. Seems like the best of both worlds to me. During the winter I prefer some merino mix though.

I can imagine the tri-blend stuff that some other poster mentioned works well too.

Capilene is....polyester. Not natural.

Curiousity wrote:

I am pretty much 100% singlet in the current weather, but I wear a lot of cotton undershirts in the Spring and Fall.

I have some nice winter tech shirts, bu they are all merino or capilene. I don't understand the desire for the plastic shirts I see a bunch of people running in.

It comes down to how much you sweat and how bad the dew point is. At a certain point, you'll overwhelm the material and it is much nicer having a wet shirt that is thin cotton shirt than plastic.

True, I like them too

Wow. Going to try the cotton. Sounds good!

My biggest complaint is getting too after the first mile this time of year. I know - layers and shed some as you go, but that's too big a hassle under the reflective running jacketr i wear at night. But that's another discussion.

different shirt for each day wrote:

Slim wrote:

Why am I wasting money on these high-priced running shirts?

I haven't bought a running shirt in almost 20 years. I have 162 race shirts hanging in my closet to choose from.

I was going to say something similar. I have dozens of race shirts, both short sleeve and long sleeve. Never do I need to buy running shirts. My race singlets are team/club shirts, some of those I've had to buy, but that's it.

I read your post. It is very informative and helpful to me.

I can never get the tech shirts to smell clean. I love cotton... comfortable and get clean.

ClonedDuck wrote:

Slim wrote:

I have numerous tech running shirts, mainly Nike Dri-Fit, that I've accumulated over the years. However, yesterday in a fluke I didn't have a single clean one to wear for my run. So in a rush, I grabbed a regular cotton t-shirt I wear when working on my property or cutting the grass.

And it was great! So damn comfortable....so much softer than my tech shirts. Not much sweatier than a Dri-Fit shirt, despite humid weather.

Why am I wasting money on these high-priced running shirts?

I LOVE wearing 100% cotton shirts when running. They feel so good. I will wear a tech shirt if I need to for a long run though. When the duration of the run increases chafing risk, then tech shirt takes the cake. Normal run any other day of the week though, cotton shirt FTW.

I've moved back to cotton as well. Kind of surprising I'm not the only one. I started running before tech shirts came out and for whatever reason, cotton just feels faster. Maybe I ran in cotton in the old days when I ran much faster but cotton definitely feels "right".

Cotton has racist roots.

Cotton, Si! Tech, No!

Except in rain....