hahahahahaha. I googled "deer shoes" - I honestly thought it must have been some sort of stupid vibram thing. Oh boy, I need to go to bed.
hahahahahaha. I googled "deer shoes" - I honestly thought it must have been some sort of stupid vibram thing. Oh boy, I need to go to bed.
what do I know? wrote:
Dear shoemakers- I bought sketchers for absolutely no other reason, but because it sponsors Meb.....
So did I, and I'm even sponsored. +1 for Skechers, -1 for Nike.
He took a shot at it and went fur the win when others were dropping hard. If he feels behooved to retire he should white tail it out of boston lay buck and enjoy a doe’s equis.
So I HERD...
estr wrote:
He took a shot at it and went fur the win when others were dropping hard. If he feels behooved to retire he should white tail it out of boston lay buck and enjoy a doe’s equis.
ok calm down there
Want to know why Jason Hartman has no sponsor?
Google him. I just did.
I admire his running and how much he's done with minimal support, but he seems to be doing nothing whatsoever to market himself. Why would a shoe company be excited to sponsor him at this point? A marathoner makes a public racing appearance a few times a year, max, and in between Hartman is dead silent. Probably a few hundred people not on his personal Facebook know his name, and in spite of his AMAZING abilities and accomplishments he's doing nothing to change that.
This isn't a knock on Hartman as an individual. It's about runners generally and how few step up and make things happen in the sponsorship realm. We make fun of triathletes and trail runners, and even the odd weekend warrior who puts together an engaging blog, gets on Twitter, etc. And yet, who do you think is more attractive to a sponsor. Jennifer from the office might have barely a chance at trials in the marathon, but if she's blogging about it and engaging a readership/fanbase, that shows she has the tools to represent a brand. No reason a much higher performing athlete shouldn't do the same.
No matter what the cliche says, marathon training is NOT a full-time job. (Go to Iten or Eldoret and watch dozens of Kenyans chilling out drinking tea all day between workouts and let me know if you still believe it is.) Even after a few hours of running, plyos, weights, stretching, massage, and any other thing you want to count as training time, there are still many hours in the day to be working on this. For a sport that is all about hard work and making things happen without reliance on others, runners have incredibly little hustle when it comes to self-marketing.
Nobody said marathoning is a full time job, but you have to understand that WITH a full time job you can't really market yourself as well in between 2-3 hour training sessions 2 times a day.
Besides, he shouldn't have to, he finished 4th at Boston, on his own training scheme. He should be able to market himself a lot better when a sponsor is paying for his meals/shoes/hookers/plane tickets/clothes
If he moved to Kenyan and lived in a village he could probably drink tea, but comparing an America to a Kenyan in terms of lifestyle isn't really a solid argument.
So, you think a world-class athlete should approach his career the way a hobby runner approaches her hobby so he can score a couple free pairs of shoes and a few pieces of running apparel?