I like a nice fleecy jogger. I have a grey loose pair for the house, a white tapered pair, also for the house. An olive looser pair for outside and a pair of olive cut-offs which I wish I’d never cut off
Also got a black polyester pair of tapered ones for walking to the pool, pre-parkrun etc. just pack up smaller than jeans and dry much faster.
I’m wearing jeans today, if that pleases you?
I didn’t realise you’d woken up as Anna Wintour
Yeah as @Jorgan said. I’ve jogged in tracksuit bottoms once in my life and that was due to me not having shorts or tights with me. They are for casual, travel and before/after sport use.
Agreed, and I have tights for hard running in cold weather. They are shitty for winter rain though.
If it’s cold wet winter weather I kind of prefer long thermal socks and longer shorts. You still get soaked and freezing but you can shed those socks easily afterwards.
Same up top, I prefer to keep wearing vests and add removable sleeves.
But if I’m easy pace up to an hour, and it’s cold
but not hard rain then joggers are great
I don’t think I’ve ever really thought about my legs being cold. It’s just not something that registers. Maybe on an easy run in the middle of winter, in which case I’d wear some leggings/tights/long leg compression bottoms*, but if there was any intensity planned then I’d just be in shorts and socks and feel fine.
It’s hands that I’d always worry about.
*I only ever used to wear them for contact sports on synthetic fields.
In my 30s I stressed about running long runs in the unreliable weather here
When I first ran to Edinburgh ( 58 miles ) - the first attempt aborted with a sort of girlfriend cycling alongside/ behind and actually getting in the way mostly (aborted at Falkirk) anyway - then I just did it it on my own - and it was ZERO! Fucking frosted over the whole way along the canal - leggings with a helly hamsen thermal vest and Nike winter running vest. I was cooked wearing then Nike vest. Helly Hansen all the way. Has holes but I’ve worn it successively since 2007. Bought another in 2012 and barely worn it
Definitely- gloves in the cold weather was the biggest concern. On my big long runs I often left a change of clothing about 20 miles on route behind a wall/ hedge in the winter because I’d sweat a lot and I’d get really cold in latter stages of runs… make all the difference
That’s the reduced number of neurons in the legs rather than reduced effect of the cold on the legs. Take off your glove and put and the hand on your knee to confirm
Also helpful is learning to remove stuff before it gets soaked in sweat. So I gradually remove the hats, then sleeves then gloves early so that they’re dry to put on again at the end of club runs.