Post by texassmith on May 15, 2012 15:30:55 GMT -5
What do you have that you wear and then take off right before a race when it is cool? I would think full-zip would be way easier to take off and put on, but so many of the things I see are 1/4-zip, so I'm wondering what the advantages are (if any) to that.
If I plan to leave it on the course, I pull something from the Goodwill pile. Recently I got a pair of Saucony arm sleeves, though, for when I want to have arm coverage but not the bulk of another layer. What I wear on top on race day has so many variables... race distance, weather, etc.
i have arm sleeves, they were about $7 and i can take them off while running and hold them so until i finish, but i'm not running marathons, at most this year i will do a 10 miler.
but i get cold and mostly stay cold. i rarely warm up enough to take a layer off.
I have a lulu Run Essential jacket that I wear when it is raining. However, I have yet to wear this jacket during a race. When I am racing I wear the craptastic jacket that I got at the DC Hot Chocolate race last year cause I would have no problems leaving it on the side of the road. I usually just suck it up and wait at the starting line without a jacket.