Running

Don't start KL on the acceptable weather to wear anything more than shorts and leggings!!

Leggings? LEGGINGS?!? This isn't fucking Norway! Shorts or gtfo.

There's no such thing as too little clothing, you just need to run harder.

Leggings? LEGGINGS?!? This isn't fucking Norway! Shorts or gtfo.

There's no such thing as too little clothing, you just need to run harder.

Ha! oops, I meant to write vest.

Anyway, for my part, I'm with William1984. In these temperatures you won't see me without leggings and a long sleeve top (or two), and if it gets colder (or I go longer) I'll add a pair of cut up old rugby socks on top to keep my knees warm.

Shorts and long sleeves at the moment. Only choice, innit.

My short run last night was done in double layers top and (long) bottom. Fingers still froze even though the rest of me oozed water. Knees are babied in cold temps.

might do parkrun in a.m, you in pifko?

Driving lesson at 8:30am. Boooo!

Never understood people who run in shorts and a tee in winter. What do they do in summer? Go au naturell or just sweat fuckloads?

I'm wrapping up, especially knees. If it's like now, 2-3+, i'm in a baselayer or two + a fleece top. If it gets colder I'll add 3/4 shorts to protect the knees and a merino west underneath. Warm and cosy ftw, then open zipper as I heat up. Also found that removing gloves regulates the whole body surprisingly well.

I've been doing occasional slower / longer / night runs in a l/s top. Gloves are never necessary - can be painful for a wee while, but after 30 mins or so you're feeling fine. Legs are actually incapable of feeling cold - they don't have the requisite nerve endings that you get in other parts of the body.

Hot runs in summer are awful - we should be allowed to run like the ancient Greeks intended.

In summer: short shorts only. The standard sun's out, gun's out rule applies.

In summer: short shorts only. The standard sun's out, gun's out rule applies.

You do know this is a running thread on a cycling forum right?? We* don't have guns!

Ha I definitely go for a million layers, but I don't know of anyone who runs in a little as KL claims to!

If racing then shorts and a tshirt are fine in this weather but I started with gloves on last weekend as I fin once my hands get cold they take ages to warm up and get a bit painfull, I just shoved them down my shorts when I warmed up!

Long run tomorrow will probably be in shorts, compressions socks and a long sleeve top, gloves and a hat/headband to start off, but the gloves will get ditched after the first lap of Richmond park though!

Should've been at the Southerns last weekend - hundreds of runners out there for an hour or so, almost everyone in vests and shorts. Attire is the only similarity between me and the real runners, unfortunately.

Ive got craft leggings on right now.
feels good.
#pifko,
ill be wearing them in the morning too, not same ones like, fresh lycra,
enjoy the car nodder lesson

You do know this is a running thread on a cycling forum right?? We* don't have guns!

Yeah, but sun's out, pistols out doesn't have the same ring to it!

On the kit front, does anyone have any recommendations for good goretex (or similar) waterproofs (with taped seams)?

The TP100 says I need one as compulsory kit and mine isn't really up to scratch. Ideally it would be as small and light as possible and comfortable to wear under my Raidlight Olmo 5. Also probably include a foldaway hood.

I've been doing occasional slower / longer / night runs in a l/s top. Gloves are never necessary - can be painful for a wee while, but after 30 mins or so you're feeling fine. Legs are actually incapable of feeling cold - they don't have the requisite nerve endings that you get in other parts of the body.

Hot runs in summer are awful - we should be allowed to run like the ancient Greeks intended.

I sound like an old git, but when you have creaky/injured/worn out knees a slightest drop in temp makes you reach for the cordurouy trousers. My knees get freezing, cold knees = pain and injury.

Fuck that was cold!

Ouchie.

1:42:30 for the Malta half. Went off waaay to quickly, and blew up at 14k.

That looks like it stings!

I just knocked out two 5 mile laps around east london and my feet are suitably sore...well the left is to be precise. These are fairly new trainers will they wear in/the rubbing go away?

thatll sting!

following on from Rich's post - new running shoes fit well but are a little sore in the right arch. Any recommendations for better footbeds?

Can anyone give a recommendation for a birthday present for a friend who is into running? Thinking of something like the Park Tools pizza cutter or some essential bit of kit that he might have already but would be happy with multiples of. I'm looking at Wiggle at the moment but nothing is grabbing me.

80km done this weekend and felt pretty OK. Terrified by the thought that next week is my last week of long miles before the taper though.

Can anyone give a recommendation for a birthday present for a friend who is into running? Thinking of something like the Park Tools pizza cutter or some essential bit of kit that he might have already but would be happy with multiples of. I'm looking at Wiggle at the moment but nothing is grabbing me.

Running cap.

I love running caps. That or X-socks

Can anyone give a recommendation for a birthday present for a friend who is into running? Thinking of something like the Park Tools pizza cutter or some essential bit of kit that he might have already but would be happy with multiples of. I'm looking at Wiggle at the moment but nothing is grabbing me.

Tricky. Despite what the rich people running around Clapham Common would have you believe, running requires virtually no special kit.

Entry to a race?

A massage session voucher for after a race? Kirsty goes to that little place near Grapes Hill flyover and says it's great. I bought vouchers for her there once.

GPS watch? If the friend has one then a foot-pod for recording running cadence?