So I’m pulling out the summer running garb today and see those two running skirts I bought but never wear. I got the navy blue one for my first race because all the forum babes were praising them and I’m such a lemming. A couple months later, I wore it again during a hard tempo run and the dribble of sweat that appeared at crotch level looked like I’d peed myself, and on this occasion I hadn’t, so I was nervous about wearing it again.

Cut to a few months later when runningskirts.com has a half-price sale and I figure I’d try again, this time with a black one, thinking black won’t show sweat so much. But when it arrived it fit quite differently from the navy one, the panty leg elastic was too tight (which I fixed by cutting small notches on either side) and the waist was so big the skirt wanted to fall down when I ran.  So it went back into the drawer with a pissed “Hrmmph! Skirts are wussy anyway!” and I forgot about it.

Today I see it laying there in all it’s black w/aqua trim glory and decide to give it a last ditch modification effort. I cut a couple holes in the inside waist, added a string like all my shorts have and voila…it worked! I wore it today and it stayed in place without a whimper. In praise of the thing, skirts do provide a certain amount of air-conditioning that’s quite refreshing, plus it has pockets on each side, which is a useful addition. So maybe running skirts aren’t so bad after all – though I still feel a little wussy in it.

And on that fashion note, now would be a good time to break into a Sports Bra diatribe as well, but too many boys read this thing and I don’t want to scare them away, so that’ll have to wait for another day.

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