Tired of Burning!

[Veronica]

I'm a bit disappointed with my new top. I wore it for my "fun" run. I was planning to get in three miles before I go back to school for Open House tonight. I took off with it sunny and 80 degrees out. I could definitely feel the cooling properties and that's a plus.

But I'm not sure the styling is going to work for me. It is a very compressive garment and it's very long. The trouble is, it doesn't stay down and when it rolls up, that's two or three layers compressing on my belly. It did not make for a "fun" run. I did 1.5 miles and called it quits.

Veronica

[jessmarimba]

I remember having issues like that with under armor tops. They want to go to the thinnest part of my waist, no matter how long the top is, so they just bunch up and I get burned on my low back.

My sister has safety pinned her shirt to her shorts during a tri. I guess that's also a pain if you need to pee...but I wonder if maybe you could sew (do you sew?) a couple snaps or something to your top and your shorts that would make them stay together but not be so hard to undo. I don't think the new shirt would need much encouraging to stay down, but it needs to be stuck to something.

[Veronica]

The DeSoto jersey and arm coolers worked out pretty well - no burning. It probably helped that it stayed overcast well into my run.

The jersey was a bit difficult to get on to a wet body. The sleeves went on pretty quickly. I just had them down by my wrists for the first ten miles or so and then pulled them up at my leisure.

The location of the pockets on the jersey did make it hard for me to get out food. The pockets are really deep. I'll probably try a different jersey for next year's race.

I am thrilled to have no sunburn!

Veronica