The results are in from the poll "how lame was No Wetsuit Girl"?
A) Not so bad, there are stupider blogger names out there... 2 people, 20%
B) SOOOO embarrassing, why do you think I always refer to you by your real name... 1 person, 10%
C) I know where it came from. I say, BAD ASS... 6 people, 60%
D) I don't know, I don't really care... 1 person, 10%
To those of you who answered A, thank you for your honesty. You're the only people I really believe (except that jerk who picked D). To the people who picked B... well I'm the person who picked B, so I'll just keep my opinions to myself. To the people who picked C, stop sucking up. And to the person who picked D, Jerk, why'd you even vote then?!
Okay, next weeks question comes from a conversation Cranky and I had while I was in New York. I learned before I even signed up for my first race that you should not wear a t-shirt until you've finished a race. In Europe, unless your number was printed directly on the t-shirt, the shirt usually wasn't even handed to you until the finish line. But I seem to see more and more people racing IN their race t-shirts or (gasp) even wearing the t-shirt around the expo the day before. So the question is:
Is it okay to wear your race t-shirt while you're racing?
A) No way, the t-shirt is for putting on after, and only after the finish line. It is the only thing you can wear when it is no longer appropriate to wear the finishing medal everywhere you go. No finish line, no shirt, end of story.
B) I paid the money, I'll wear the t-shirt whenever I damn well please. Who cares if I haven't actually completed the race yet. Get over it!
C) Who cares? It never fits me anyway. Why do they only order XXXL shirts for an athletic event in the first place?
D) It's okay for other people, but I would never be caught dead committing a newbie faux pas like that myself. REAL athletes come prepared for an event and don't wear just any old thing that someone just handed them out of a garbage bag 20 minutes ago.
10 comments:
Ya F that S. Only amateur punk ass mofos wear the race shirt at the race. This ain't no fun run. Under Armour all the way.
For the record: I picked A. I keep it real.
My darling Clara. Will you come visit me soon and we can run the Seabright stairs at sunrise and then maybe have breakfast at Seabreeze cafe? I'm using alliteration to appeal to your literary side, but I don't think I need to. You bring the hummus, I'll bring the pita chips. What do you say?
First Congrats on the stair climb.
second I voted that the name was bad ass because only a bad ass mofo would have the balls to a) go to a tri in New England Sans Wetsuit b) piss in the lake 2 minutes before gun time.
About wearing the race t-shirt in the event. I never do that shit because usually they are cheap shit cotton. I'm all about the tri suit or a good dry release top ( which the nutmeg State races had, so they are an exception) Also I usually forget to bring a cotton top for when I change into street clothes and I don't want to eat in my grungy warm up crap, so I end up wearing the race shirt at the awards...unless the design is well...utter crap.
Um, I have to agree with Bob about the fact they are usually just plain old cotton...i hardly wear the shirts after I'm done due to that fact. BUT that being said, I almost had to wear the race shirt from my last 10K in the race because for a minute we thought we had to pick our shirt up before the race, and we had no where and no time to put it anywhere...but disaster was averted and we didn't have to in the end. But...i say, don't wear it before (bad karma)...unless there are extenuating circumstances and then karma doesn't matter.
Those shirts make good pajamas, rags, shirts when painting, and when EVERYTHING else is in the wash! I confess, sometimes I wear the shirt- some of them are cool- BUT only after I finished the race.
I chose A but that is just my opinion and all the newbies can wear their damn shirts when they please. Yes, I called them newbies even though all of them pass me.
I've arrived! I've arrived! I got a link on speedy's blog! :) I'll be sending you a giant golden old lady hoof as thanks.
As for the t-shirts. It seems that more and more races are giving out technical-type material shirts instead of the giant cotton ones of yore (I wear the cotton ones as pj's). But I *still* wouldn't wear it before or during the race. Afterwards is ok though. My favorite t-shirt etiquette rule from the link below is "Never wear a T-shirt that vastly out-classes the event you're running. It’s like taking a gun to a knife fight. Or like unleashing an atomic bomb among aboriginal natives. You get the idea."
I saw this link previously on warrior woman's blog about t-shirt etiquette - it's pretty funny (but I'm sure we can come with even more):
http://badbenkc.blogspot.com/2007/09/proper-t-shirt-etiquette.html
OK, confession....I'm pretty sure I wore my cheap cotton race shirt to many of my first races, but we'll chalk that up to inexperience... Now I definitely don't wear it until after the race. Most of the shirts I get are still cotton so they have been delegated to sleep or lounge around the house in.
You already know my vote, it's A.
You earn that shirt by crossing the finish line, until then, you don't wear it. It's bad karma to wear it before you've earned it, and we've got enough shit to worry about (other runners, weather, weird leg pains, etc.) to mess with bad karma during a race. I got a t-shirt for a race once, something came up and I couldn't show up for the race, and I STILL wouldn't wear the thing. Had to give it away. There's a fireside ghost story in there waiting to be written....
I'm sorry but i still have all intentions of wearing my IM New Zealand Shirt in the Transition area of the Pat griskus Tri. I need every edge I can get against the college track/XC/Swimming Super studs who show up race day thinking they can own the thing....So yes the natives will be getting nuked.
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