Keith Straw is fairly well known in the ultra world and I think he does most of his races in a pink tutu/pink outfit. I did one race with him and he was wearing it.
Keith Straw is fairly well known in the ultra world and I think he does most of his races in a pink tutu/pink outfit. I did one race with him and he was wearing it.
Central Park (of course): a man running with a rose in his hand and a large piece of red duct tape across his mouth.
On a treadmill in the gym where i work (large agency): guy in dress shirt, tie, office slacks, doing about 7:30-8:00 pace on the treadmill. Not sure how long he was going for, but it was unusual.
track chick wrote:
I don't mean a charity outfit for a marathon.
I mean someone wearing something a bit outside of the norm.
I saw someone in gold shiny metallic shorts the other day.
Circles.
My highschool was near some Mennonite towns, so we used to see girls do the hurdles in long skirts. I always felt really sorry for them.
A fairly prominent male ultramarathoner in the Northeast (who was also a poet) used to do his races wearing a loose-fitting dress. It was to prevent chafing.
Bigtool wrote:
Asian guy in Jersey City wearing work clothes: nice black loafers, black pants, white button-down shirt. Saw him a few times running in the same area, always wearing the same thing. It was the middle of the day in the summer and must have been 85-90 degrees out.
I've seen an Asian guy running dressed like this, too, on the walking trails on my work campus. At first I thought he was running from one building to another, but he did multiple laps.
Another:
Just this last weekend, my son ran in a half marathon. There was also a 5k and 10k, which started after the half. After my son took off, I saw two older guys warming up for the 5k or 10k. One of them looked very fit, and was wearing legit running shoes and a tech shirt. But he was also wearing cutoff corduroy dress slacks (cut just a little longer than short shorts). Wonder if those were his lucky pants...
ataglance. wrote:
A Mexican in a hockey sweater, on a 80 degree day.
I may be painting w/ a broad brush, but whenever I see a Mexican running (always men)they are almost always way overdressed. Full cotton sweatsuits when it is 85.
Ha. I think I see the same guy almost every morning, running in trousers, a button-down shirt and loafers (unless there is more than one such runner in JC). He's not fast, but he's very light and has a pretty efficient gate, so he probably doesn't sweat enough to ruin his clothes. I give him credit for being out there running whatever he's wearing. BTW, he seems to sport white cotton gloves in anything under about 65 degrees.
Back in the 70's there used to be an elderly taxi
driver in Boston that would park his taxi and run
a 7 mile lap around the Charles River in full dress
at sub 7 pace. There was also a pretty good 10k guy from
Brandeis (sub 30)
that I always saw running in a skirt
Back in the early 80's, some (well, a couple) of the top elites in this country trained wearing something called an altitude simulator. It looked like a cheap plastic aqua lung that you wore on your back, with a mouthpiece and hoses. It was really stupid looking, cumbersome, and I don't believe had the desired effect anyway. They didn't last long. Anyway, one of the guys on my high school team got his dad to pay for one. He didn't dare wear it to practice, knowing full well the abuse he would have received. However, I did see him a few times running alone on the weekend wearing it. No, it wasn't me, although I've done many other things to embarrass myself.
the assistant coach of my junior high program wears his work clothes to run in. everyday the same blue dress pants, collared shirt, and samba soccer shoes in class and then on the track.
weird guy.
Runners from St. Louis know Naked Bob. No shirt no matter the temperature, doing loops around Forest Park. On really cold days, he would wear what looked like oven mitts on his hands.
A guy wearing a one-gallon Camelbak at a local 5k race...
there's a hispanic dude in austin who runs in his car mechanic uniform down on the trail. dickie's trousers, button down shirt with "Jose" on the nametag and a white towel around his neck like he's rocky. dude's got to be hot.
man, what is it with the asian guys running in jeans? san francisco is full of them. seriously, are they just too cheap to buy some shorts?
They're probably those 300+ dolla raw denims theyre trying to get sick fades on.
I recall a photo of a young Al Salazar and some other Oregon guys running with this on. I tried a Google images search but couldn't find it.
dsdd wrote:
Keith Straw is fairly well known in the ultra world and I think he does most of his races in a pink tutu/pink outfit. I did one race with him and he was wearing it.
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You beat me to the punch! I've seen him in a few marathons in the mid-00s. He likes to start slowly and at/near the back of the pack for maximum demoralizing effect when he passes people for good.
I used to see a guy in Central Park who would run in the opposite direction from everyone else, wearing jockey shorts and carrying a lit cigar. He died. Big shock.
