I know road bike shorts are made to wear without underwear, but mountain bike shorts are baggier. Do I wear underwear with mountain bike shorts? Thanks.

. What if my bike broke down for some reason and I had to wait for a couple hours in Corinth for her to come get me? I did not want to do that in stretchy lycra.

 When I first got my road bike, I was opposed to cycling clothes on principle. They seemed frivolous and, well, they were made of lycra, which real men didn’t wear. I tried mountain bike shorts. For those uninitiated to bike fashion, road bike shorts are the tight-fitting lycra or spandex jobs with padding where it counts, while mountain bike shorts are more like normal-looking shorts with padding where it counts hidden underneath. 

In time I found the reason not many people wore mountain bike shorts for hours on end while pedaling a bicycle: The extra fabric bunches up after a while and chafes in places you don’t want chaffing. (I’m probably getting “real man” demerits for whining about chafing) 

When I tried on my first pair of real, disturbingly tight bike shorts in the store, I was amazed by the padding, but also looked in the mirror and instantly regretted every cookie I had ever eaten. Cycling shorts: they’re comfortable, they’re funny looking and they’re a great appetite suppressant.

 The Mohawk Hudson River Marathon  is coming up on Sunday, one of our few restricted marathons. I’m inclined to informed entertain the at any rate is full this year! That means lots of regional marathoners will be entering their lessen week , where they will be vicious back on their miles in feeling of the family.

I don’t discern how other people get even, but I was deft to by out of my epidermis during ebb week. I couldn’t be tabled for the step lively day to get here and quite got on the nerves of those around me, more than unimaginative anyway. So if you’re around a jittery or sulky pre-marathoner this week, cut them a narrow-minded do-nothing.

If you’re one of the ones tapering, try to cool down and fantasize about how poverty-stricken you’ve worked this summer to reckon Sunday’s run into Corning Shelter achievable. It might be a chaste week to rewatch Chariots of Fire or Saint Ralph.  The facts folks at the Albany blog have reported that the big apple has repaved the Corning Reservation course, so you should have a glassy avenue to the use up rule. Scarp on, marathoners.

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