Replying to everyone, can we discuss women in tights? Running in them is fine, I assume. Yes?

Is wearing running tights or capris to the store so bad? EVERYBODY complains about it, but is it truly bad? If the general rule is that it's bad, does that rule have to apply to ME if I'm fine doing it?

Two nights ago, I hung out with my girlfriends. They said they see me running all the time, and they complained that I never wave back. I've only seen them three (3!) times while running this school year. I guess I don't look in cars that pass. This makes me think we (runners) are much more visible than we know! I guess I thought we are anonymous and mysterious. Turns out everyone knows what we're doing!

I don't know what my point is. Perhaps I don't have a point. Or, perhaps we DO need to consider our clothing choices since everyone sees us. The world is a stage!

Replying to everyone, can we discuss women in tights? Running in them is fine, I assume. Yes?

Is wearing running tights or capris to the store so bad? EVERYBODY complains about it, but is it truly bad? If the general rule is that it's bad, does that rule have to apply to ME if I'm fine doing it?

Two nights ago, I hung out with my girlfriends. They said they see me running all the time, and they complained that I never wave back. I've only seen them three (3!) times while running this school year. I guess I don't look in cars that pass. This makes me think we (runners) are much more visible than we know! I guess I thought we are anonymous and mysterious. Turns out everyone knows what we're doing!

I don't know what my point is. Perhaps I don't have a point. Or, perhaps we DO need to consider our clothing choices since everyone sees us. The world is a stage!

Replying to everyone, can we discuss women in tights? Running in them is fine, I assume. Yes?

Is wearing running tights or capris to the store so bad? EVERYBODY complains about it, but is it truly bad? If the general rule is that it's bad, does that rule have to apply to ME if I'm fine doing it?

Two nights ago, I hung out with my girlfriends. They said they see me running all the time, and they complained that I never wave back. I've only seen them three (3!) times while running this school year. I guess I don't look in cars that pass. This makes me think we (runners) are much more visible than we know! I guess I thought we are anonymous and mysterious. Turns out everyone knows what we're doing!

I don't know what my point is. Perhaps I don't have a point. Or, perhaps we DO need to consider our clothing choices since everyone sees us. The world is a stage!

women's leggings are all the rage for normal wear amongst women in Arizona it seems.

https://www.amazon.com/Baleaf-Thermal-Cycling-Tights-Black/dp/B00PVXNC92/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1547505141&sr=8-8&keywords=baleaf+men


Picked these up over the weekend and ran with them on Sunday, temp was in the low 20's with windchill in the teens and I was really warm, almost too warm with them. Definitely a fan after the first run, will be interested in how they work this weekend with a high of 15 on Sunday for my long run, for $23 though you can't really go wrong.

Ok, those northerners. How do you run in tights? Shorts underneath, shorts on top? Of junktastic?

Wait, shorts under tights is an option? Oh dear.

Triathletes making fun of other triathletes for fashion choices.

Now that's rich.

Full Disclosure: I don't own any tights

If I want to run outside, in the cold, I wear regular baggy cotton sweatpants, with compression shorts underneath

OR I'll find an excuse to go to the gym and use the Treadmill; that's why I have a membership anyway, right?

I’ve been defeated. There is something to the half naked runners when it’s cold outside.

That's me in both cases
There are some sights you just don't deliberately inflict upon the world

No-one needs to see old men in tights..

shorts over tights, especially since that combo is on this list: https://www.runnersworld.com/...t-50-years/?slide=30

So, there was a dad hanging out at the basketball courts during my kids' league's practice yesterday and today. He was wearing bright white tights under dark shorts. I didn't really look at him b/c his clothes looked too new and he looked too well-groomed. I'm not into fastidious guys. (His hair was neither feathered nor flowing.)

This evening my husband asked me if I had seen Eric Weddle at the practices. He's apparently some NFL guy who just returned to town after the Chargers didn't make the playoffs. I googled his pic. Yep, the guy in tights and shorts was Eric Weddle.

This thread is hilarious. The tunnel vision exhibited here is priceless.

But again, the difference is that the entire (including non-tri) population would have an adverse reaction to the wife beater. In contrast, the miniscule tri (and perhaps running) population appears to be adverse to short over tights whereas the population at large I have NO doubt would (1) prefer a male to wear shorts over the tights and (2) cringe at the thought of the man in long tights with nothing else

I can only assume that everyone here voting for tights with nothing on top also blithely assumes that they look normal, perhaps even cool, riding outdoors with their cycling kits and/or trisuits.