LRC Note: We like to have one thread per subject. We've merged two threads on this into 1 and kept the original thread title. The 2nd thread was titled, "Tracksmith Decides: When Digging a Hole Make It Bigger."
Haha, 6:50 absolutely is jogging and you are a moron. This is not a humble brag, just an informed, realistic perspective. No one in the right mind thinks 6:50 is fast, the only allowed exception being if you’d are to running as an adult without any context. You’d be arrogant to think of yourself as “fast” if you run 6:50. You should think of yourself as someone with endurance who can hold a good pace for a long time. People of all athletic abilities can develop the competency to endure jogging for that long at that pace. Been to a race and seen sub 3? And get out of here with the average marathon pace metric…what a joke. That is skewed by loads of people not really running or jogging and that metric has not control for training duration or volume.
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit is it? They never said 6:50 was fast. In fact they said the opposite. So not only are you an a$$hole you’re also a dumba$$
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
The funny thing is I have found tracksmith to be the definition of elitist since they first started selling appeal.. they stink of east coast rich liberty Nimby's how have never had to struggle for money. Someone that thinks 200$ for a piece of clothing made from the most sub optimal material that is also the cheapest material to procure is normal because that most have been what daddy had to pay for my clothes growing up.
Of all the comments I just see a bunch of ultra runners who don't work hard enough to get in complaining... which fits the above definition pretty well too... let them infight. Every example that is given using what-a-boutism is hilarious stupid argument... There isn't a sole on earth that has run as many miles as I have in the last 5 years who can't BQ. That doesn't make them non human.. just means they have had other priorities for the past 20 years than I have and that's fine... they probably have better things in life than me in other aspects and I'm not crying about that.
This almost made me want to buy the singlet from the elitists.. but then I remember I have known this about them since day 1
All of these companies virtue signal until they make that one fatal step. Then they get canceled. Don't care about their stuff and don't care about their overbearing stories how the shirt was developed on the hills of whatever. if this singlet is offensive then so is BQ. Why even time the marathon? Everyone run and no time is recorded. It's too elite and colonial to have winners and place finishers.
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
Ask them if they have ever purchased anything from Tracksmith before their new boycott.
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
I was about to say this is BS but then I read the instagram comments. Unbelievable.
People are demanding the post be taken down.
Others are saying Boston needs to have more charity runners all in the name of inclusion.
What I don't get is they've had this shirt every year right? Does it say "Qualifier"? I can't find a picture of it. Why would someone who hasn't qualified even want it? A bit surprised they'd even make it to begin with but their must be a market for this type of singlet.
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
I was about to say this is BS but then I read the instagram comments. Unbelievable.
People are demanding the post be taken down.
Others are saying Boston needs to have more charity runners all in the name of inclusion.
What I don't get is they've had this shirt every year right? Does it say "Qualifier"? I can't find a picture of it. Why would someone who hasn't qualified even want it? A bit surprised they'd even make it to begin with but their must be a market for this type of singlet.
They've made it every year but this year they emphasized it was only for those who've qualified and registered for Boston. I guess before anyone could buy it, but who would want to?
The comments are out of hand! So entertaining. They're out to cancel Boston as well.
Think it would've been a good marketing ploy to make it for all who hit the qualifying time, no matter the cutoff. As a salve. And those people now have money to burn. The copy would be about how they too did the work and put in the lonely endless miles in the dark and whatnot. No runner in tracksmith copy has ever run in groups in the bright sunshine.
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
I was about to say this is BS but then I read the instagram comments. Unbelievable.
People are demanding the post be taken down.
Others are saying Boston needs to have more charity runners all in the name of inclusion.
What I don't get is they've had this shirt every year right? Does it say "Qualifier"? I can't find a picture of it. Why would someone who hasn't qualified even want it? A bit surprised they'd even make it to begin with but their must be a market for this type of singlet.
I think every year the design is pretty similar, but it has a BQ on it as well as the year (22,23,24, etc...) the BQ is fairly big so it is easy to notice. As someone that runs in the greater boston area a lot you see a lot of these singlets and they definitely stick out.
Tracksmith should have enough money from their over priced clothes to hire a marketing person who should have known this post (specifically the Jock Semple thing) was going to elicit these types of responses.
Other than that, these responses are just completely ridiculous. They gave Cravont Charleston a chance when no one else would and he became the US 100 meter champion.
Tracksmith isn't bad for the sport. The Boston Marathon is becoming bad for the sport. Running influencers on Instagram are AWFUL.
Perhaps they knew it would get these responses and that was in part the goal- all attention is good.
My buddy found a Tracksmith BQ '23 singlet at Good Will and paid like $5ish for it. He thinks it's hilariously gaudy and wears it to events where he knows he'll get under the BQ holier than thou crowd. He's significantly faster than BQ, but hasn't registered for or run Boston and the fact that he wears a BQ '23 singlet really riles up the diehards. He has the upmost respect for the history and tradition of the race, but thinks some of its fanboys take it way too far.
Don't most people who qualify for Boston just buy a jacket at the race? I would have thought that BQ qualifiers would have already stocked up on Boston race swag.
Tracksmith's decision to offer the singlet exclusively strikes me as a questionable business move. Wouldn't you want everyone to be able to purchase your product? Most exclusive items are limited by price, not participation.
Considering the company's other initiatives promoting women and people of color, this approach seems inconsistent with their brand. I would have anticipated such a move from the company in 2014, when they started and aimed to appeal to a faster crowd, but now it appears to be an ill-considered product launch.
Many of them are mediocre running influencer types.
They seem to come from privilege. Fancy shoes and running clothes, very full of it.
I'm a lefty liberal. I stand for a lot of social justice issues, and I believe that there are many systems that oppress people based on race, gender etc.
But this sort of...display...is red meat for all the people who just say "everyone wants to be a victim, everyone wants to complain."
Because in this case, "inclusivity" to them literally does mean "mediocrity."
These commenters need to get a life.
Do they have any other problems in their life? Work drama? Kids? Teacher conferences? Anything else happening in the world that they can pay attention to to get so worked up over a BQ shirt? Well they don't. The nanny is raising the kids, and they run around pretending that a shirt has traumatized them, and I'm sure they'll have to work it out in therapy between lattes and yoga-for-runners.
You younger guys may not remember this, but there used to be this yoga pant company called "Lululemon". Apparently some women were complaining that their pants were too sheer when they bent over, and the CEO told them that's because they were too fat to wear yoga pants.
I'm almost positive the company went bankrupt and disappeared shortly after, because no way would fat women continue buying yoga pants after the CEO said THAT.
People in my track club are saying they'll be boycotting Tracksmith b/c of this. Personally I try not to get upset about things on instagram because I am not 12 years old, but each to their own
I was about to say this is BS but then I read the instagram comments.
Excuse you Wejo but I would never BS on the letsrun dot com forums!! I'm just your regular old 34 year old man who likes to talk smack on the internet but I tell the truth gosh darnit
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