Why No socks?

Sometimes yes.

less weight bc at that level every gram counts

I don't wear socks to race. It's useless weight.

And yet so many have uselessly long hair, man buns, chains, and watches.

How did van Niekerk get an $800,000 watch is what I'd like to know? Post setting WR sure but he ran with one of those Rafa Nadal watches its crazy! I'm surprised he hasn't been mugged yet.

I like to feel the track more. Socks get in the way.

Via trial and error, my teammate learned that if you somehow loose your shoe in a race it is much harder to sprint in socks compared to barefoot.

Feels better to me. Makes the spike plate feel more connected to you foot.

Non-Native wrote:

Feels better to me. Makes the spike plate feel more connected to you foot.

Exactly

Does running in shoes w/o socks not give you bad blisters?

At first yeah but eventually they go away

You almost never see socks won in the steeplechase (water).

I think no socks with spikes was the usual situation back in the 1950s and 60s.

More careful observer wrote:

I think no socks with spikes was the usual situation back in the 1950s and 60s.

And Shorter