You’ve got it..It brings the leg into a seated cross leg position, sort of like the lotus position. Which is how tailors used to sit when they did their sewing. Another bit of useless info for you ;-)

I’m a bit floored by the amount of commentary. Love when a post stimulates discussion like that!

I have had success with looser fitting running pants, but I only have one pair. May need to rectify that!

As for the sartorius, are you referring to the etymology relating to it being called the tailor’s muscle?

I have to confess that after my vasectomy I held off running for a bit (don’t remember that well, it was almost 16 years ago) … but the materials used were different back then so I wouldn’t have had tech gear.

They say that it’s the sweat that kills you or freezes things together. So maybe we should ditch the shorts and/or tights compo and take a lesson from the inuit.

Their traditional seal skin over clothes are designed to be loose when moving to let air flow through and allow sweat out, but when static the weight of the clothes traps heat in.

Neither shorts or tights achieve this. So how about a pair of something like the “Ronhill Trackster Running Pants” instead? Something like those should do the trick. I believe some of the other brands do winter weight ones as well.

There you go your running sartorial problems sorted! BTW who can tell me how sartorial as in elegance is related to sartorius the muscle?