RunningAHEAD - Topic: Crazy clothing choice?

labrat

posted: 1/8/2009 at 10:21 PM

Earlier this evening, I was driving back from my MCAT class at about 10PM. With the windchill, the temp is 20 F. I happened to notice this old guy running on the side of the road. I did a double-take (and nearly drove off the road) when I noticed he was wearing only short-shorts and the thinnest T-shirt I've ever seen. And he wasn't going very fast. He was just trotting along, happy as a clam. His core body temp must have been just above freezing. Shocked

So this begs the question: what's the most inappropriate outfit (weather-wise or otherwise) you've ever worn while running? Me - I always dress to the nines wherever I go. (and by that I mean I enjoy keeping all my fingers and toes intact.) Tongue

Marathon Peach

Cause I CAN

posted: 1/8/2009 at 10:32 PM

My problem is never under dressing ,,,its over dressing...I usually end up dying and shedding some layers in mid run

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/8/2009 at 10:36 PM
modified: 1/8/2009 at 10:38 PM

I'm generally pretty good at dressing appropriately for temps. I will look at the weather and wind and decide how many layers and whether to wear a windbreaker or heavier gloves. I'm not afraid of overdressing...I can always tie my jacket around my waist once I warm up. But I have been a little underdressed a few times or had the temp drop mid-run. I am not fond of that. I think it was last Spring that the wind picked-up and it started to pour while I was out in a thin shirt and skirt. It was probably 45-50, but 45-50 and still is different than the same temp with wind and rain. I was pretty chilled by the time I got home.

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

vengeancewins

posted: 1/8/2009 at 10:36 PM

Craziest would probably be just shorts and no shirt in a torrential downpour and the temperature barely above 50. Good times...

xor

posted: 1/8/2009 at 10:53 PM

So this begs the question: what's the most inappropriate outfit (weather-wise or otherwise) you've ever worn while running?

When I do not run in pink.

Hoshiko

posted: 1/9/2009 at 5:22 AM
modified: 1/9/2009 at 5:22 AM

So many people out today looked like Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Is a scarf really necessary to go running? Maybe they're just trying to use their Christmas loot before it gets too warm. Why knows? I occasionally run with someone who wears basketball shorts over pajama pants, none of it matching. He looks really funny until you see how fast he is.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way. - Mitch Hedberg

Purdey

Self anointed title

posted: 1/9/2009 at 5:42 AM

Quote from labrat on 1/8/2009 at 10:21 PM:

So this begs the question: what's the most inappropriate outfit (weather-wise or otherwise) you've ever worn

A pvc catsuit to a funeral.

Quote from labrat on 1/8/2009 at 10:21 PM:

while running?

Oh. My mistake. Probably a running skirt. Wink

Jill_B

I fly.

posted: 1/9/2009 at 7:29 AM

I wore shorts to a February race on the boardwalk (next to the ocean). Not pleasant.

Bring it on.

jeffreyvollum

posted: 1/9/2009 at 7:29 AM

Like Zoomie said, sometimes you can get fouled up by weather, even with the best planning. As for me, I don't even think about long pants until the temp hits freezing. I usually go with the shorts/long sleeve shirt/gloves and maybe balaclava (on windy days) attire. My avatar shows me fininshing the Philadelphia Marathon in November. Temps that day were 17 deg F at the start (wind chill of 7), and it was about 27 deg F at the time of the photo. The adjustments I made on that day were compression shorts under my running shorts (to protect ...ahem... important parts) and a short sleeve tech shirt under my long sleeve shirt.

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

RunB

posted: 1/9/2009 at 7:48 AM

Hmmm. That was pretty much the weather at the Philly marathon and several people were running in shorts and some in singlets. I usually wear shorts until 35F without the windchill, unless it's raining. I usually have no problem choosing the right clothes. But if I ever have a problem, just like Peach mentioned, it's overdressing. Ideally, I plan clothes so I'm cold the first 5-10 minutes and then warm up. If I overdress. I am comfortable the first 5-10 minutes, but then I get sweaty and then get cold and uncomfortable for the rest of the run. There's a guy I sometimes cross which is a professor at a local university here in Montreal. He's not running, but winter or summer he's walking around in shorts and sandals (no socks). I saw him once getting on the bus after a snow storm with his shorts and sandals. He had some snow on his toes. Freaky!

labrat

posted: 1/9/2009 at 8:22 AM
modified: 1/9/2009 at 8:23 AM

Quote from Purdey on 1/9/2009 at 5:42 AM:

A pvc catsuit to a funeral.

uhh, i'm pretty sure that's the most original thing i've ever heard. hope everyone else at the funeral found it funny Tongue

Zoomy - I definitely overdress sometimes, but i always worry about running with my jacket tied around my waist. doesn't the flapping bother you?

Quote from RunB on 1/9/2009 at 7:48 AM:

There's a guy I sometimes cross which is a professor at a local university here in Montreal. He's not running, but winter or summer he's walking around in shorts and sandals (no socks). I saw him once getting on the bus after a snow storm with his shorts and sandals. He had some snow on his toes. Freaky!

now that's crazy!

rlemert

posted: 1/9/2009 at 8:46 AM

Quote from RunB on 1/9/2009 at 7:48 AM:

There's a guy I sometimes cross which is a professor at a local university here in Montreal. He's not running, but winter or summer he's walking around in shorts and sandals (no socks). I saw him once getting on the bus after a snow storm with his shorts and sandals. He had some snow on his toes. Freaky!

Going to college outside Denver, I had a classmate who would wear little more than a tee-shirt and cutoffs year-round. I found out years later that he had some sort of metabolic issues that set his internal furnace at a higher level than most people's.

jeffreyvollum

posted: 1/10/2009 at 12:21 PM

Quote from RunB on 1/9/2009 at 7:48 AM:

Hmmm. That was pretty much the weather at the Philly marathon and several people were running in shorts and some in singlets.

Yeah, you're right, a lot of the hard core racers were wearing singlets. That's a bit much for me. Shocked

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright

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