Running and Fashion Faux Pas

Ed -

Ran twice this week.  8.6 miles at 7:35 pace then 12.6 today at 8:07.  It's post Half Marathon week so I'm not disappointed or anything.

I did get a Flamboyant Workout in on Monday with some upper body and squats thrown in.  Wednesday I did my little pull up, push up, sit up cycle, and of course on Friday I did the Kettlebells class.

 

Happy Running Face

Tomorrow is the first day our track club has access to the indoor track so I'm going up to do a little sprint pyramid workout just to have something a little extra in there.  I'm thinking two sets of 100, 200, 400, 200, 100 with 60 seconds between each rep and 4 minutes between the sets.  Nothing brutal, but since the sprinters will take turns jumping in on one of my reps it should be fun and force me to push at least a little.

The schedule per week going forward is one Flamboyant workout moving up to 5 or 6 sets during that, one Kettlebell class, heavy squats adding lunges and step ups with the bar, upper body basics (pull ups, push ups, sit ups) once a week, and three runs.  The runs will be about 8 miles twice and 12 miles once.  This should have me building a little muscle mass while increasing my stamina for the more intense stuff starting in January/February.

So a week or so ago I wrote about the human scenery at road races and how guys sometimes wear some just bad stuff.  I mentioned that I wasn't really sure what I might have done, but didn't doubt I dressed badly at times.  Well, this morning I was layered up for the cold and noticed something that would qualify as "bad" in my book.

Our track team got new uniforms last winter for the 2012 indoor and outdoor seasons.  They were those Nike superman type uniforms that the U.S. Track team wears only they're red with a little white trim.

The guys reading this that have ever worn spandex know where this is going.

Well, I was a little self conscious about the way the shorts showed off "stuff" as it were but found that wearing those Under Armor shorts helped provide better support as well as reduce the "definition" that was so prominent.  It didn't seem embarrassingly bad at the time and in the first meet so many teams were wearing the same sorts of uniforms so I didn't think much about it after that.

When I was getting undressed from my run in the cold this morning, I took off the long winter Asics leggings I was wearing and then actually looked at myself in those racing shorts in the mirror.

Really?  Ed, you wore those in public?  In front of tons of people?

Do these make my ass look fat?

 

 

Looks like I just painted the lower half of my body.

 

...and of course I just published a picture of it.

 

Oh, I get the irony.  I do.

 

I think I'll stick to the racing shorts from our old uniforms from  here out.