tights vs shorts - fight!
- Tights
- Shorts
- Empty words, like the UN
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Tights plus shorts below 4 degrees/equivalent windchill
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For running, always shorts.
If it’s too cold for shorts, stick to the indoors.
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I’m thinking of tights, no shorts, vest and gloves.
If I had a bobble hat…
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Prefer warmer. Ran in 2 t shirts yesterday, although braved shorts this evening
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Usually 3/4’s for me just past the knee, but sometimes paired with calf guards for full cover. But often have a couple of tops to keep warm! If it’s wet and miserable it’s indoors.
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… Reassess your life choices and get out there in your shorts!!!
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YAG
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I was always shorts only until I got some tights in Jan 2021 back when we had a really cold spell and I was running most days with El Nino on his bike during Covid and hanging around getting cold whilst he messed around doing jumps and stuff
I refer you to a comment from the right honourable gentleman I received at the time
so yer, no shorts with them
Rarely wore them after that year this past year when doing 6am runs in Jan/Feb I started again. It helps that its dark that time of year, although I get some looks when I get back to the pool after 
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Last winter was quite mild iirc? I think I just wore shorts with quad sleeves throughout, which is unlike me (normally wear full legs).
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it was, but 6am, well before sunrise can be quite chilly even when mild and I’m not as fast as I used to be
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I’m personally not bothered about the plus shorts but Mrs T will not be seen dead with me wearing tights without shorts
Says it’s verging on the obscene - not sure if she is trying to protect my feelings or whether she is worried about the unwanted attention I might attract otherwise 
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If my Mrs sees me in mine she doubles up laughing, again is that a bad sign She also says I must wear shorts with them, but it feels weird with shorts on as well
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Tights and a hat (bobble or bobbless)
Once warm shove the hat down the front of your tights (only for easy storage reasons of course)
Then forget about it and pop into a shop, for some after run snacks and get some odd looks.
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What if you already have a pair of football socks down there, for warmth obviously
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Good idea, saves cellotaping a cucumber on.
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Seriously though, it’s a terrible look.
You can just see ‘junk’…. But it’s cold. No one wins.
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Yeah… man… makes me look more average.
Training in tights is ok.
Racing? Never!
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