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Running Skirts (Read 1140 times)


A Saucy Wench

posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:33 PM
Quote from JellyFish on 6/4/2008 at 8:30 PM:
I really like my skirts... course I also wear a skirt to work everyday. maybe i'm just weird like that! Wink


I think this might be why I dont like running skirts...I DONT wear skirts IRL because they dont really look that good on my body. So running skirts...meh. Whatever, not for me.

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JellyFish


posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:35 PM
Quote from willamona on 6/4/2008 at 9:04 PM:
I should post more pics of me in my skirts after I run.


would you be covered in sweat like I am??


jules2

posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:37 PM
modified: 6/4/2008 at 9:38 PM
Quote from willamona on 6/4/2008 at 8:48 PM:
Spankies and Bodyglide fix chaffing. Running more just makes you look better in the skirt.



Alas no matter how much more I run your theory that I'll look better in a skirt will not work.
you can't keep your money for ever its like saving sex for your old age


hydration is important

posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:43 PM
Quote from jules2 on 6/4/2008 at 9:37 PM:
Alas no matter how much more I run your theory that I'll look better in a skirt will not work.


I don't know...you look like you have some nice legs from your profile pic. Wink
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
'09: 1810.9 mi

'10 Goals:

2000k (1243mi.) running
1500 miles biking
1st sprint duathlon (5k run, 30k bike, 5k run)
1st century ride
PRs: 15k, 25k, HM
posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:44 PM
Quote from TanyaS on 6/4/2008 at 8:36 PM:
Fixed. Tongue


I wanted to respond (should have) to your stance a day or so ago but just wanted to say now that I am so very pleased for you and Candice offering up your opinions on this subject earlier.
It's preference and all that, but y'alls is spot on.

IMO, Skirts are tennis, not running apparel. That's my opinion (also running purist women that I dually noted)
and it ought to be your's.

Ricky

—our ability to perform up to our physiological potential in a race is determined by whether or not we truly psychologically believe that what we are attempting is realistic. Anton Krupicka


hydration is important

posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:45 PM
Quote from Ennay on 6/4/2008 at 9:33 PM:
I think this might be why I dont like running skirts...I DONT wear skirts IRL because they dont really look that good on my body. So running skirts...meh. Whatever, not for me.


I almost never wear skirts outside of running (I'm a pants gal whenever possible--I think I own one dress that I wore to did's grandpa's funeral 3-4 years ago, and not once since)...there goes that theory. Wink
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
'09: 1810.9 mi

'10 Goals:

2000k (1243mi.) running
1500 miles biking
1st sprint duathlon (5k run, 30k bike, 5k run)
1st century ride
PRs: 15k, 25k, HM


hydration is important

posted: 6/4/2008 at 9:55 PM
modified: 6/4/2008 at 9:55 PM
Quote from pRED on 6/4/2008 at 9:44 PM:
I wanted to respond (should have) to your stance a day or so ago but just wanted to say now that I am so very pleased for you and Candice offering up your opinions on this subject earlier.
It's preference and all that, but y'alls is spot on.

IMO, Skirts are tennis, not running apparel. That's my opinion (also running purist women that I dually noted)
and it ought to be your's.


So you're more concerned with fashion than actual running? What are you, a metrosexual? Run your own run.

I still don't get why some people get their panties in a knot over what OTHER people wear while running. Seriously, that shit went out after 8th grade. I couldn't care less what anyone else wears as long as they're out doing something...running, biking, playing tennis, whatever. Perhaps more people would get out and exercise if they didn't feel like some "purists" were looking down their nose at them and making irrelevant fashion judgements.
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
'09: 1810.9 mi

'10 Goals:

2000k (1243mi.) running
1500 miles biking
1st sprint duathlon (5k run, 30k bike, 5k run)
1st century ride
PRs: 15k, 25k, HM
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:02 PM
modified: 6/4/2008 at 10:05 PM
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:15 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 6/4/2008 at 9:55 PM:
I still don't get why some people get their panties in a knot over what OTHER people wear while running.

Maybe file yer complaint with the skirt-lover who started this thread? In general I bet most of us spend aproximately zero percent of our day worrying about what other people wear. But you shove a skirt in my face and ask me what I think? I think it looks like something that doesn't go with running.

Yawn.
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Eye Lick Two Rhune

posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:19 PM
I thought this was going to be women from the swamp showing off Evil grin, not a fashion discussion bring back the pics Wink
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hydration is important

posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:20 PM
Quote from mikeymike on 6/4/2008 at 10:15 PM:
I think it looks like something that doesn't go with running.

Yawn.


*shrugs* Kathrine Switzer ran her first NYC marathon in a dress. But what does she know...?
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 mi
'08: 1561 mi
'09: 1810.9 mi

'10 Goals:

2000k (1243mi.) running
1500 miles biking
1st sprint duathlon (5k run, 30k bike, 5k run)
1st century ride
PRs: 15k, 25k, HM
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:34 PM
Quote from zoom-zoom on 6/4/2008 at 10:20 PM:
*shrugs* Kathrine Switzer ran her first NYC marathon in a dress. But what does she know...?


Actually, in her autobiography she talks about how it was societal pressure and her own fear (that she later realized was ridiculous) of not being perceived as "feminine enough" that drove her to wear a dress, makeup, and even jewelry in her first races.
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:34 PM
Quote from mikeymike on 6/4/2008 at 10:15 PM:
Maybe file yer complaint with the skirt-lover who started this thread? In general I bet most of us spend aproximately zero percent of our day worrying about what other people wear. But you shove a skirt in my face and ask me what I think? I think it looks like something that doesn't go with running.

Yawn.


I so love you mikey. Must be my, whatever the hell "metrosexuality" means.

Tanya drooped the nuclear awhile back. Maybe it was in what I read of her blog. Yes
It "tickled" me I guess, and I only wanted to compliment her for her stance that I so liked hearing.Maybe you should read that zoom, and jump her, not my shit!
Ricky

—our ability to perform up to our physiological potential in a race is determined by whether or not we truly psychologically believe that what we are attempting is realistic. Anton Krupicka
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:36 PM
Quote from TanyaS on 6/4/2008 at 10:34 PM:
(that she later realized was ridiculous) of not being perceived as "feminine enough" that drove her to wear a dress, makeup, and even jewelry in her first races.


I love this Tanya. You've got balls guts!
Ricky

—our ability to perform up to our physiological potential in a race is determined by whether or not we truly psychologically believe that what we are attempting is realistic. Anton Krupicka
posted: 6/4/2008 at 10:43 PM
Quote from pRED on 6/4/2008 at 10:36 PM:
I love this Tanya. You've got balls guts!


Well, not really. That's what Switzer said, not me, in response to the way she used to dress for races. Like me, I'm sure Switzer could not care less if someone wants to wear a full-length ball gown and a tiara out for some intervals, if that's what gets them out the door. But, like some others, I think running skirts look ridiculous. And since, as Mikey pointed out, this thread was started for the sake of drumming up opinions about running skirts, that's my freaking opinion.

Can I get a "sheesh"?
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