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Marathon runners' sleeves[edit]

Watching the delayed London Marathon today, I noticed that a lot of runners were wearing detached sleeves like this. Are they for insulation (it was raining all day) or because of sore elbows, or something else? Alansplodge (talk) 16:06, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised we have no running sleeve article. Yet. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇} 16:12, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they're for insulation. We do have an article on arm warmer, which is what the spandex variety is sometimes called, even if that article's picture shows the knit mitaine variety which covers more of the hand and less of the arm than the example in your image. ---Sluzzelin talk 20:28, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Sluzzelin and --jpgordon, I have found a passable reference and added it to the "arm warmer" article, with a redirect from "running sleeve". Alansplodge (talk) 16:15, 6 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]