Guy on starting line wearing woman’s shirt belly shown- wtf?!!??

When I read OP’s title of ‘belly shown’ I was picturing an overweight dude with his gut hanging out. Isn’t this what triathletes usually wear?

Crop tops for guys was a thing in the 80s.

If he’s comfortable who cares?

Dude has lower body fat than the typical runner, tan skin, and tattoos. He likely gave some female along the course a heart attack.

Alan

UA Runner wrote:

Phantasy Star wrote:

Hipster trying to get on camera. Got owned. Whatever.

yeah, not really.. Dude ran 2:18.20 in Boston two years ago. Tommy Rivers is a stud. Primarily an ultra runner from Flagstaff, but he can hang in road marathons as well and it's generally not his focus. I believe he won Trans Rockies one year. He may not look like the standard road marathoner, but he's pretty awesome. Plus he does all that while getting his PhD and raising several kids. I did find the belly shirt to be a bit odd.. but until I can run faster than him.. well, he probably won't care anyways.

Ah ha, and there is it. Tells me everything I need to know about this doofus.

Another Saga Canaday. Great at hype, blogging, tweets, etc..... Running? Not so much.

Ggggg wrote:

There was a guy on the starting line of the elite men wearing a woman’s shirt showing his belly- wtf?

That’s disgusting. Why would any sane man do that?

She was probably self identifying as female.

It is presumptive for you to refer to her as a “guy.” She was probably late for the women’s start.

Ggggg wrote:

There was a guy on the starting line of the elite men wearing a woman’s shirt showing his belly- wtf?

That’s disgusting. Why would any sane man do that?

Editor's note: Here is a pic:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSxO_Pn5bj/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=15w4v0jh3mxba

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Men who concern themselves with what other men wear are gay => OP is gay.

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

The girl in the background is stopped cold mid text. Her friend is pointing out what she is missing.

Guys offended by this would totally lose their in-the-closet sh1t if he was running without a shirt.

Just so everyone is aware, he is a model for H&M athletic clothing line. So yeah, he is literally an IG fitness model, he's wearing that sh!t for the ladies/followers on his IG account.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Crop tops for guys was a thing in the 80s.

If he’s comfortable who cares?

Dude has lower body fat than the typical runner, tan skin, and tattoos. He likely gave some female along the course a heart attack.

Alan

I seem to remember this as well. It wasn’t uncommon for elite runners at all.

He did fracture his spine 13 months ago and has a faster PR than almost everyone on the board...

eyes have it wrote:

I thought the OP was complaining about some emaciated emo ex-D1 athlete. Yeah, a half top on a guy like that would be totally effeminate. But if you're built like this guy and run 2:18 and have 3 kids, then screw it, you can wear whatever you want. Haters are just jealous of his body, PRs, and IG follows.

Not jealous in the least. Still effeminate.

Umbilicus model wrote:

in his defense he did look hot in that wrote:

In his defense, it was a hot day.

So that's a reason to wear a woman's top?

Obviously people are annoyed not because of the women's top, but because he looks like a raging douche in general.

Notice I said "looks like." I dont know the guy, he could be a great guy for all I know. Although his interviews make him seem pretty douchey. Here is an example:

Anyway, dude spent a lot of money on those douche tattoos, obviously he needs a cropped singlet to get a return in his investment.

The tattoo's are temp, not real. He had them on the last time he ran Boston too but they were different.

Dude just wants to mess with all the small minded twerps posting on Lets Run boards, that's all.

Everyone who knows him says he is a great guy. People speak really highly of him. The thing that soured me on him though was a couple of posts he wrote on IG where he essentially romanticized hard labor. He went on and on about how laborers were the most fit people he's ever met, how they thought he was stupid for working out for working outs sake etc... It was along the lines of we are all privileged to be able to pursue running but weirdly romanticizing hard labor. The reason it bothered me is that I grew up not too well off, I did a lot of odd jobs growing up and worked as a cook for years. During those times I worked with many people from Spanish speaking countries, laborers if you will. While they for sure knew how to endure and were 'fit' in some sense, they were also in horrible health. Guys that were only in their 20's who I could have sworn were 40+. Most of them are happy to do the work, and coming from small poor villages it is somewhat understandable. But for me it is not something I would ever envy and it honestly makes me feel sad that we live in a country where a portion of people work themselves to the bone for so little. To romanticize that life for your own gain (IG followers) is pretty fucking douchey if you ask me.

Yessirrrrr1 wrote:

You are correct. He always photo crops and darkens his muscles to make them look so much more bigger, stand out. Met him numerous times. Definitely is not ripped like his photos show.

To be fair, you will look more ripped near the end of a marathon than day to day, looks to me just like a filter.

I’ve definitely taken photos of friends, no homo, which due to lighting etc makes them look far more ripped than they are. Like when you see yourself in a mirror with that perfect lighting

drawn on? wrote:

Dril wrote:

I’m guessing the altra social media team saw this thread

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwSxO_Pn5bj/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=15w4v0jh3mxba

Are those abs outline with makeup? Sure seems like there is a dark outline on them.

Must have been the filter. (like on that Emma Coburn pic) The dude is cut

Looks better than the Nike singlets

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/lawrence-cherono-the-eventual-winner-of-the-123rd-boston-marathon-and-picture-id1137420605?s=2048x2048

not real tats wrote:

The tattoo's are temp, not real. He had them on the last time he ran Boston too but they were different.

I was wondering about that, if you look through his IG there's times he has tattoos and then times they disappear. That's either some high quality Temp Tattoo ink or high quality photoshopping

CLASSIC! The quintessential LRC thread: uptight, prudish, no talent man-children criticizing the fashion sense and questioning the sexuality of someone that is actually living the dream. The icing on the cake would be that this guy probably makes more than most of you slaving away on some corporate cubical farm in your proper conservative office attire.