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2006-08-17 12:11 PM

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Master
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Subject: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Currently my oldest is from 2000 (Melissas Road Race) when I got back into running. Thinking back I know I had one from 1980 but I must have got rid of it at some point.


2006-08-17 12:14 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
I haven't kept any of the cotton ones, just the technical fabric ones. I don't think I got my first technical fabric one until 2003. And it was a unisex, so it didn't fit very well, so I no longer have it. I guess my oldest is probably 2004.
2006-08-17 12:15 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Oh no, I have a Sun Run one from 2003. So I change my answer to 2003.
2006-08-17 12:18 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
July 4th, 2005.  My first race - a duathlon.  I hate the shirt though and never wear it, but I'll probably keep it for posterity. 
2006-08-17 12:18 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?

I have a swim meet shirt from 1977. Florida Short Course Junior Olympics. I was 10.

My oldest tri shirt is from the '93 DCA Atlanta Triathlon at Stone Mountain, GA.

2006-08-17 12:24 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Oh man......I used to have all my shirts from HS, but I think my wife may have made me get rid of them at one point. Now, the oldest is from this year. I do know that I have my number from Junior Olympics Nationals. Don't know, but I might have race numbers from some other races that year too.


2006-08-17 12:28 PM
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Well I have an old soccer tournament shirt that is probably 10 years old. 1996-97ish. Its still in a box somewhere. After that I have a couple of my first 5k shirts from 97-98. My first AG placing in a running race I have at my moms, saving it for my race shirt quilt.
2006-08-17 12:52 PM
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Lets see this is August 2006....carry the 1....figure in PI......

7 Months. All my race shirts have a special section in the closet, which is beginning to get full. Time to throw out some non training/racing items. Like Comet, I'm planning for a racing quilt. My MIL made one for my nephew with all his High School Jerseys.

2006-08-17 12:58 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
I have a Long Sleeve Shirt from 1985 for the City of Dartmouth Natal Day Parade... I have no idea what the distance of the race was (I would think 5km). I was about 7. I asked if I could do the race (because my big brother did it with his friend... he was 12).

Anyway, for some reason Mum and Dad said yes and left Derek in charge! HAHA!! Yeah, I saw him for about 15 seconds at the beginning of the race. Needless to say, i think I went about 500 meters... had an asthma attack... got picked up by the ambulance and taken to the finish line where mum and dad were waiting.

I am sure it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It took me 20 years to get over my first road race before I tried another 5 km. :
2006-08-17 1:11 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Fifteen years. Long-sleeve T-shirt from the Crescent City Classic, 1991. Won't be throwing it away either, I wore it the night our oldest was born in 1992. He started high school yesterday.

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2006-08-17 1:29 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
I know I have one from 1994 (mountain bike race) I may still have one from 1992 (Also mtb race)


2006-08-17 1:35 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
I've kept all of my 'athletic' shirts since the start of high school, Fall of 94. I have all of my track, cross country, running races, cycling races and rallies, triathlon, etc. My sister is in the process of making me a quilt. However, she is getting quite mad because I keep bringing her shirts every time I see her. She says, "Would you please stop racing!! You're screwing up my layout!" And I don't even race that much anymore, just longer races. The t-shirts are kind of like a photo album to me, it's neat to look back at what all I did and the memories associated with it. Half the time, the t-shirts don't get worn anymore, some are pretty ugly and go straight to the quilt pile. I try to only keep about 20 or so short sleeved ones and about 6-7 long sleeved ones in my closet at a time. I definitely have my favorites though that are hard to part with.
2006-08-17 1:47 PM
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Davis Monthan Triathlon 1998
2006-08-17 2:09 PM
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Supersonicus Idioticus
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Probably 1994 from some swim meet when I was 9.
2006-08-17 2:10 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Rookies...

I have a "Hangover Handicap" and "Tony Glaze Memorial Run" circa 1982/1984 (and I was more than 10 years old).

Some of my "daily wear" aka "good" T-shirts are more than 10 years old...



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2006-08-17 2:12 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
run4yrlif - 2006-08-17 1:18 PM

I have a swim meet shirt from 1977. Florida Short Course Junior Olympics. I was 10.

And it still fits?

 



2006-08-17 2:15 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?

My oldest is only from last year...the South Beach Triathlon.

However, I have been saving my toe nail clippings in a jar since junior high.  Does that count?

 

2006-08-17 2:22 PM
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The Mac - 2006-08-17 2:12 PM
run4yrlif - 2006-08-17 1:18 PM

I have a swim meet shirt from 1977. Florida Short Course Junior Olympics. I was 10.

And it still fits?

Have you seen his BSM photo? He's still got the physique of a 10-year old.



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2006-08-17 2:34 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
the bear - 2006-08-17 3:22 PM
The Mac - 2006-08-17 2:12 PM
run4yrlif - 2006-08-17 1:18 PM

I have a swim meet shirt from 1977. Florida Short Course Junior Olympics. I was 10.

And it still fits?

Have you seen his BSM photo? He's still got the physique of a 10-year old.

I'm slightly larger now than I was then.

It's funny, though. When I graduated HS I was 6' and 135. After college I was 6' and 165. Now I'm 6' and 182.

2006-08-17 2:47 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
1996. A crappy 5k. But you always remember your 1st.
2006-08-17 3:29 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?

On the back it says: "Try the latest innovation, the wheel."

But it's written in sanskrit and I can't make the rest of it out.  



2006-08-17 3:42 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
Humm... have only been running for 4 years, but I have a shirt we made up in 2003 for a non-profit fundraisor that says "Team Last Place - When 2nd to last just isn't good enough!"
2006-08-17 3:53 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
i have a james page blubber run 5k shirt from 2001, a few months after ella was born. i walked the whole thing with my husband, and we pushed ella in a stroller. at the time, my brother encouraged me to try and run some of it, and i told him he was crazy
2006-08-17 4:40 PM
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
My oldest t-shirt was a 1984 10K t-shirt that my wife just started using as a rag!?!    still havea drawerful of running shirts from the 80's and the more current triathlon shirtsl, some of which I have never actually worn.
2006-08-17 9:19 PM
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Master
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Subject: RE: How old is your oldest race t-shirt?
I have my very first race shirt. It was a triathlon from 1985 in Crystal Lake IL. I still have the shirt and the results buried in a trunk somewhere. I should pull them out. There were no microchips in that race you were just given an overall time. It was an Olympic distance but it wasn't called that back then.
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