14 Replies to “Runner’s Strip: Jeans shopping”

  1. OMG love this post. Since I don’t use the scale, I always judge and keep myself in check by “checking in with my jeans”. Now, just the other day I thought my jeans felt “different”. Tight? I don’t know, just “different. They totally fit but I noticed it was an upper thigh muscle type issue that was changing how they fit. You are so right – jeans need to be made for us athletic girls. I am thin. I am muscular. I am a runner. I should not have to deal with jean issues! lol…But this is so important for girls to realize- rather than think they “gained weight”, they just changed shape or have a better shape or muscular running legs that require the right jeans. I live in leggings and this is why!

    • oh don’t get me started on this one!! haha. the scale is NOT able to see the difference between muscle and fat, it can’t read body composition. what’s more is it can’t tell you function, power, etc…a PR is always going to trump whatever some silly scale says. 😉 oh, and on those jeans…goodness, they need the ‘runner cut’ jean. 😉

  2. Thank you Cait!!!!
    I love wearing jeans in my down time, but there are very few companies who make appropriately proportioned jeans for someone with a runner butt and legs and a little waistline!! I don’t want to have to resort to boyfriend style jeans that look like I’m dressing from my actual boyfriend’s closet!
    And pencil skirts. Don’t even get me started… That is my ‘normal person’ fashion for work, but containing these legs into a tube of fabric that was fitted on a human coathanger is blasphemy against the holiest of running deities.
    Other than than, dresses can be a lifesaver. The fuller the skirt the better 😉

    • Oh my gosh, do I know the sausage leg feeling well. 😛 So forget those dang pencil skirts and skinny jeans…here’s to hulking them out and being proud of your strong (fast/awesome/distance running) legs! 🙂

  3. I hate jean shopping! I have the hardest time finding a pair that fit right, they’ll be too tight in one spot and too loose in another. Come on! I finally found a pair of Levis that I liked, so I bought two pairs of them. That’s enough jeans for me 🙂

    I love the Oiselle distance shorts! They are my favorite running shorts.

  4. Hahaha this is hilarious. I avoid jeans at ALL COSTS precisely because of this reason. I’m also a cyclist, so yea, big thighs that are just gonna get bigger. I live in yoga pants and running clothes anyways 😛

  5. Awesome part of living in Singapore: I have virtually no desire to ever – EVER – put on jeans.

    Awesome part of working in athletics, and from home: I wear workout gear most of the time.

    Choice when I’m NOT in workout gear: Easy, breezy dresses, usually from Athleta. Tech fabric even in my ‘off’ time! 🙂

  6. I second that emotion!!

    Just had the traumatic experience of jeans shopping for the first time in over a year. I couldn’t find a single pair that would come up past my thighs/glutes. I left frustrated, but proud of how muscular my legs have gotten.
    I’m glad to know I’m not the only one. I guess I’ll just keep wearing my running clothes everywhere.

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