The Men’s Running Skirt

Ever since I posted about my running skirt experience it has haunted me. I constantly find references to that post all over the blogosphere and it’s one of the more common Google search terms that leads to Half-Fast. In fact if you Google “running skirt” you’ll find Half-Fast at the bottom of the second page (as of this writing), if you up the ante and Google “mens running skirt” I am the number one search result. Needless to say I did not set out to become the world’s foremost authority on men’s running skirts, and yes I am well aware that this post will do nothing to abate my standing in that regard.

Men’s running skirt or 1950’s cheerleading skirt?
Just yesterday I found a post by The Marathon Mama who has actually found a men’s running skirt. It’s made by Utilikilts, an American company that hires actors for their commercials with Scottish accents that are worse than Mel Gibson’s. Their marketing strategy seems to be two-fold. First, they make fun of all of us “pants wearing wimps” and then they show a lot of pictures of men wearing Utilikilts doing overly macho things like construction work, lumberjacking (I’m not making this up), rock climbing, and welding - all of which just screams “TRYING TOO HARD!”

Anyway, as I perused the site I actually considered for a nanosecond how funny it would be to buy one and then post some race pictures of me wearing it without even mentioning that I owned a running skirt. That thought quickly faded when I remembered that I wasn’t a woman and also when I saw a price tag of $110. $110? Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how many pairs of running shorts I could buy with $110? And that’s the cheapest “kilt” they sell. Now, if they sent me a free one...