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Running => Running => Topic started by: i am party on December 30, 2015, 01:55:00 PM

Title: Tights
Post by: i am party on December 30, 2015, 01:55:00 PM: I have running tights, and their primary function is as a base layer. That is, I wear them under my traditional nylon/gore-tex running pants when the temperature is below, say, 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

I do not like running pants because, among other things, they make a swhooshing noise as the legs cross each other (twice per stride), and also that they feel loose and baggy.

I'm going to experiment with wearing tights under running shorts as my first level of warmth beyond shorts-only.

I'm sure you're all fascinated by this.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Belgian Lace on December 30, 2015, 02:10:22 PM: I do tights + shorts a lot. I feel like I look silly, but the combination of warmth and pockets is just right.

Running pants come out for wind, rain, or temps below 20.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: siamesedream on December 30, 2015, 02:15:22 PM: Corduroy running pants would be loud.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: caito on December 30, 2015, 02:15:37 PM: Just go tights. You can pull it off.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: witchypoo on December 30, 2015, 02:17:43 PM: Quote from: caito on December 30, 2015, 02:15:37 PM
Just go tights. You can pull it off.

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Title: Re: Tights
Post by: i am party on December 30, 2015, 02:53:05 PM: Just tights is a bit outside of my comfort zone, but thanks. :)

Plus, as LoG said, the shorts adds an element of warmth in an area where it is needed. Without shorts I'd have to look into "wind briefs".
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Mom of Scooby on December 30, 2015, 03:43:34 PM: I pretty much just do tights as well.. Is it different for a woman than a man?
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: siamesedream on December 30, 2015, 03:46:48 PM: When I lived up north I wore running pants or ran in shorts on the treadmill.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: radial on December 30, 2015, 03:48:17 PM: Quote from: Mom of Scooby on December 30, 2015, 03:43:34 PM
I pretty much just do tights as well.. Is it different for a woman than a man?

Outdoor plumbing. :D
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: siamesedream on December 30, 2015, 03:50:30 PM: Yeah, I don't want to look like I'm in the Russian Ballet.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: wherestheportojohn on December 30, 2015, 04:12:23 PM: :panic: bouncing packages
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: caito on December 30, 2015, 04:13:37 PM: I dislike running pants for the reasons you list. I have no qualms about tights but I am a lady.

Once I was at race and a guy in tights pinned his bib right over his package. I think he was embarrassed to be in tights but boy did he make it worse. He didn't have the demeanor of a guy who did it to be hilarious...
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Fast Eddie on December 30, 2015, 06:29:50 PM: At my age I have no shame. :moon: I have spandex tights I wear all the time. Cold weather shrinkage and wind briefs takes care of of my package. Yeah, I see a lot of guy wearing shorts over their tights. I do have some fitted running pants when I need to add a base layer on really cold days.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: ctjim on December 30, 2015, 07:51:17 PM: I just wear tights.
I don't like the feel of running in baggy pants, and I just don't fucking care what people out walking their dogs at 6:00 am think about me.
I mean, these are people that pick up their dog's shit...
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Ice Cream on December 30, 2015, 08:06:33 PM: DH wears his running shorts under his tights.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Rochey on December 30, 2015, 10:14:11 PM: Quote from: Ice Cream on December 30, 2015, 08:06:33 PM
DH wears his running shorts under his tights.

That sounds mighty uncomfortable.

I usually run with two guys. One wears shorts over his tights, one doesn't. I feel oogy when I see the one guy just in tights.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Ice Cream on December 31, 2015, 08:05:00 AM: Quote from: Rochey on December 30, 2015, 10:14:11 PM
That sounds mighty uncomfortable.

I usually run with two guys. One wears shorts over his tights, one doesn't. I feel oogy when I see the one guy just in tights.

That is what I thought, too, but he keeps doing it, so...
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: i am party on December 31, 2015, 10:37:03 AM: Quote from: Rochey on December 30, 2015, 10:14:11 PM
I feel oogy when I see the one guy just in tights.

And "oogy" is a bad thing, right?
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: hally on December 31, 2015, 10:51:09 AM: My warm tights are all I have ever needed under 20°, under 10° etc.
And it gets damn windy down here at the beach!

Seeing a guy in just tights does not bother me one bit.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: wherestheportojohn on December 31, 2015, 03:56:36 PM: :old:

Now I cannot get the Robin Hood "men in tights" ear worm out of my head.
Title: Re: Tights
Post by: Arrojo on January 01, 2016, 03:31:48 PM: I do just tights - it's just not possible to sprint outdoors in the cold with anything else. Running pants are fine for slow twitch running.