A Long Spiel About Shorts
Where can you buy a decent pair of running shorts these days? Specialty running stores and Road Runner Sports probably have them. But what if you don’t live near a RRS or specialty store, and don’t want to buy online? What’s your choice? Chain sporting goods stores, forget it. Department stores, good luck! Seems like everyone has gone NBA these days.
How does anyone run in shorts down to their knees? Compression shorts I can see, but the baggy, long basketball type? It seems like it would be like running in a skirt. Doesn’t that baggy material rub? Who hasn’t had a good case of crotch-burn, from just regular running shorts. It seems like anyone wearing these long babies are just asking for it. What about running fast in these things? You’re not terribly aerodynamic. How about summer time, aren’t they hot? Most runners have nice looking legs. Who sees them?
So is it style over function? If so, guess I’ll pass this style up. But then I’m sure the style-police would never have approved of some of my running shorts from the 70’s and 80’s. Remember those short Dolphin shorts with the green vertical stripes. I saw a picture of Frank Shorter with them, so I had to have them. Then there were all the bright day-glow colors…yellow and oranges, if I remember right. Others were not much longer than Speedos. The v-notch split shorts were interesting. A windy day and your butt would feel a cool breeze.
So I guess I’ll just have to wait this style out until runners can look and feel like runners again. Hopefully, my old running shorts will hold up until then.