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| At the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2016 |
Running shorts are my favourite thing in the world. Though I have never found a satisfactory pair of them in India. As in the past, in my recent trip to the US, I obsessed over it for days and finally ordered a bunch of them on amazon, to my hotel room. Only to discover a rather nice running store round the corner...
It was heartening to read this article making a desperate plea for better shorts for women:
The options in India are generally pathetic as far as women's running shorts are concerned. I admit having to resort to men's shorts - they rarely fit well though they at least they are longer. I occasionally succumb and buy the latest model of Nike or adidas shorts since they loudly proclaim that they are for running, but they are all uniformly disappointing.
I am seriously contemplating moving to those three-quarter tights that seem to popular among women runners in India (and beyond). I may even be okay with the weird patterns that these tights seem to possess. Maybe then my daughter will stop teasing me about my 'thunder thighs' - at least they will be decorously swathed in colourful polyester...
3 comments:
No, you can't wear those awful three quarter shorts. You have fantastic, strong legs and i'm not sure why you should wear anything but what you want.
PS: If you call your legs thunder thighs you will send people like me scurrying back to pajamas :)
MM, only the child calls them thunder thighs - mostly cause I call her chicken legs, I guess. :) I am happy to wear shorts but the proper kind are just not easily available. Anyway I am good for now 'cause I managed to stock up on a recent trip to the US. Amazon Prime FTW!
Good post.
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