This one strikes me the wrong way : a sport titled “skirt-chasing”. Admittedly it is for “good”, it’s about fun, it’s about involving men and women, and it’s about health. But it still feels “awkward”, keeping in mind that for me and all the women from desi backgrounds, who have experiences of not-so-altruistic skirt-chasing, molestation is an actual problem.

Tracy Clark-Flory writes in Salon.com :

Are you an unmotivated runner? Do you enter races only to apathetically walk your way across the finish line? Maybe that’s because you aren’t being chased by a horde of screaming men! At least, that’s the thinking behind the SkirtChaser Race Series. In these events — sponsored by SkirtSports, creator of “the original fitness skirt” — women are outfitted in skirts, given a head start on the 5K race and then men, or rather “SkirtChasers,” are sent after them; the first man or woman to cross the finish line wins $500.

Sort of re-inforcing stereotypes – man the skirt-chaser, the woman the chased one. The natural order of things, eh ?