Thursday, October 8, 2015

Shirt question

What are the rules on wearing this shirt?






I started the race but dropped out halfway through (my half-marathon time registered). 


I fully trained for the race.  I was in the middle of peak week when I fell (I had done my 22 miler, followed by a 9 on Tuesday of that week, had set out for 6-7 the day I fell, had 8 on the schedule for the next day, and an easy 5 on Saturday, then I truly would have been in taper mode). 


When I ran the San Fran marathon in July, the woman I bought the bib from on Craig's List wanted to keep the shirt.  I thought that was weird and a little ... unethical?  That might not be the right word, but it seemed disingenuous.  She knew at least a week before the race that she wouldn't be starting it.  I bought a shirt at the SF marathon expo and I wear it a lot (I like the color), even though my name doesn't show up in the official results. 
The photos don't show this shirt well.  It's almost a forest green colored shirt, with a blue-ish undertone. 
Anyway, what say you?  Can I wear the Lakefront Marathon shirt, even though I DNF'd?  Or should it just be a throw-away? 

9 comments:

  1. I was registered for a marathon where I dropped out at the half way point (finishing the half marathon) yet still had the marathon shirt. I still wear it. Who cares?! It's a shirt. :)

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  2. I would wear it. You've endured enough training and suffering to earn it!

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  3. Generally my rules for wearing a shirt are to put the largest opening over my head, put my arms through the long (or short) tube-thingies and then stick my head out of the second largest opening.

    :)

    Seriously, I think people get too hung up about this stuff. You participated, and therefore you paid for the shirt, so wear it.

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  4. Wear it. You've ran enough marathons to not jinx yourself. (If you'd never ran a marathon, I would say without a doubt... DONT WEAR IT. But I'm weird and superstitious like that).

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  5. I vote wear it. You did all the training for it, planned to run it, and participated in it as best you could.

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  6. Oh, I'd wear it. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in my favorite comfy T from a race I never ran (we were supposed to run it as a family, but plans changed).

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  7. you trained your a$$ off for that race and even tho you didn't get to do the full distance, you did participate. i say you can wear it without any ethic qualms!

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