Captain Tightpants

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I mentioned recently on one or another social-inter-network-web-thingies that Instep running had CW-X tights on sale recently. If you are the sort who haunts athletic clothing stores or hangs out with the kind of athletes who favor compression tights, you might know these as the very tight tights that have criss-crossing-zig-zagging extra bands of elastic that are supposedly designed to follow the muscles and joints and support and stabilize and otherwise make you better, faster, stronger. Anyway, a number of the speed skaters seem to like them. Instep not only had CW-X "Stabilyx" tights on sale for a somewhat more reasonable price than Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price, but also had size small in stock (the first time I've seen them in small). Those of you who've seen me know that I'm diminutive, so this is important. Anyway, I don't know that they are really improving my performance or anything, but they are comfortable during crazy activities like speed skating.

Oddly, even though all manner of improbable items are sold to us as being likely to enhance our sex appeal, pretty much the only claim the manufacture doesn't make for the very tight pants is that they'll make you more attractive to such people who fancy your gender. That would actually be a highly believable claim for very tight pants. Anyone who hangs out with speed skaters knows that the combination of large amounts of very hard exercise and very tight pants is pleasant to look at, after all.