W's 9" Trail Half Tight

Five stars for the pockets alone - was excited to find these while training for a marathon and trying to avoid wearing a belt or vest. These had more than enough space for 8 gels and my phone, and could have fit a lot more including a flask or two. Would like to see them in a slightly shorter length like the pace shorts and potentially in the same material (nothing wrong with the material these are made of, the pace ones just feel softer).

Let’s start with the positives. These are great tights. The side pockets fit a phone, keys, gloves, windbreaker, tissue, small flask, gels - awesome. Don’t ride up, and long enough to be used in the kind of weather where it’s not really shorts temp but you don’t want to wear tights. I would have had absolutely zero complaints, if not for getting confused yesterday after being bombarded with adverts on Instagram for the men’s ones - with 7 pockets. 7… hmmm. Check website. Yeah, it says 7…. But there’s definitely only 5. The mens ones have an extra pocket on each leg on the outside, which means you could put a phone in without having to stretch the main pocket entrance over whatever you have in the little top packet. Genius. So why on earth is it only on the mens? I genuinely can’t think of any good reason other than “women don’t need as many pockets “ - please correct me if I’m wrong , Janji! The product page for the ladies one even says 7 pockets which is just not true - false advertising. I’m kind of glad I didn’t realise till now as otherwise I might have just sent them back out of disappointment!