What is the oldest running related object you own?

I own Bernard Lagat.

Running and Cross-Country Running by Alfred Shrubb, "The World’s Greatest Pedestrian" (London, Health and Strength, Ltd. 1908)

Pennant from the English Schools X-Country Championship, 1972

English County (= state in U.S.) representative vest, circa 1982

English National X-Country Champion tee-shirt, Newcastle, 1986

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

Medal, trophy, shirt, magazine, book, shoes, other? We need good stories on this one.

This thread should be bumped at least once every season for as long as the board stays open.

Good thread.

We recently moved to a much smaller place and I had to purge my running collection. I threw away a lot of trophies, medals, mugs, trinkets and ribbons. I kept my HS stuff so I guess that would be my oldest. My JV letter would had been given to me in 85 or 86 I believe.

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Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

Medal, trophy, shirt, magazine, book, shoes, other? We need good stories on this one.

This thread should be bumped at least once every season for as long as the board stays open.

Why? So younger people can recognize how out of touch many people here really are? What comes to mind is what Mary Cain said when someone asked her if she looked at online message boards:

"(while shaking her head no and laughing) Bunch of old men."

The oldest thing I have is the original version of Michael Johnson's gold shoes they put on sale after '96...and that's something many younger people might remember seeing.

Actually, I've got something older than I thought: the Sports Illustrated issue w/ the cover story on Pre: June 15, 1970.

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medals, ribbons, trophies, race numbers, news clippings from mid-70s

all my logs - 40 years worth

T&FN from late-70s through mid-90s

high school knit cap (and still wear it sometimes!)

college coach welcome letter

relay baton from district championships

all my spikes ever owned - plus the Cherry Sucrets tin where kept extra and different sized spikes, still full of old spikes!

maryland marathon canvas dufflebag from 1977

plastic adidas spikes the size of a big thumb that hung from my rear-view mirror like fuzzy dice

HRE wrote:

Other than that I've got some issues of Track and Field News from the late 60s and an issue of Sports Illustrated with a story about Ron Clarke from 1965.

I have that article. Great read.

I bought some T&FN going back to the mid 50's.

Road race medals from 1969. T-shirt from a 1970 15 miler.

Official Olympic books from 1956 and 1972. The 1956 one is also autographed by Jack Daniels on the page with his picture.

Many track books

Official Pre autograph from 1970.

Home movies of Pat Matzdorf's WR HJ, Pre's first Am. record, Wottle's Oly. gold run, etc.

ALL the Eugene newspaper articles from Pre's death, etc. etc. etc.

Being a 50 year track fan has been a good life!!!!

A Sports Illustrated from March 12, 1956 with a spread on Wes Santee.

I made bids on the stop watch and spikes from Bannister's sub-4 in 1954, but got outbid.

Various cross-country trophies I won in high school in the early 70's. The family for a time kept them on a shelf in the living room but later moved them to the garage to make room for pictures of the grand-kids. A few months ago I discovered that the labels fell off so I cannot tell for which races I won them for.

A marble paperweight with a medallion in the center for winning the mile relay at the B.C. relays in 1975.

I have a copy of "Jogging" by Bill Bowerman, 1967. It's pretty funny to thumb through because of the old pictures and the vaguely sexist advice geared toward women, but it holds up pretty well otherwise.

vintage richard symmonds shorts

skiddered

not by richards

I have a jar of cinders from the high school track I ran on 50 years ago. Even then, we had the only remaining pure cinder track in the neighboring 3 counties - most were mixed with clay. It was just a 220 yd straightaway for all sprints and hurdles. The oval was all grass, set 10 yards off to the side of it.

Ten years ago I went back and scooped up what scraps of the cinders I could find. It had been abandoned 15 years before that, more or less cleaned up, but a half hour of rummaging around filled up a pint jar of leftover cinders which sits proudly on my dresser. My kids (both HS runners) stare at it weirdly.

My Boost foam Adidas

Not counting old issues of Track and Field News, it may be "Sports Illustrated: Track Running Events" by Jim Dunaway. It was published in 1972 and that was around the time that I bought it. It can be had for 0.48 on Amazon these days!

One-inch-spike black shoes from junior year in high school, 1956. Wore them winning mile at Michigan Class B State Championship.

I want to like this thread, I really do, but it\'s useless without pictures.

Come on, if you have something nice, show it!