uk half ironman t shirt
poo_the_great
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So...........finished wimbleball.
Picked up my finishers t shirt.
Am i the only one in thinking the quality could be better......alot better.
When you pay £220 for your punishment, the least you could get is a t shirt you could wear down the pub, not shove it in the back of the cupboard and forget about it.
Or is it just me???
Picked up my finishers t shirt.
Am i the only one in thinking the quality could be better......alot better.
When you pay £220 for your punishment, the least you could get is a t shirt you could wear down the pub, not shove it in the back of the cupboard and forget about it.
Or is it just me???
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Why would you want to wear an IM finisher tee to the pub??? Really??
All my t-shirts from races are the wife's comfy's or rags to clean the bikes. There is only one t-shirt that I use for training cause its a 2xu t-shirt that I bought with the Abu Dhabi Triathlon logo all over it. Apart from that one the rest are shit..
MTFU
In reply to doing other HIM races that are not M-Dot. There is no differences in the achievement of finishing at all so do call yourself an Half Ironman (Joe Bloggs down the pub won't know). I would not normaly pay the earth for races (I'm a 21 student) but this was an exception of being a fantastic course, very well organised and for me it was on my 21st bday weekend.
Oh and in reply to the first question. Yep the shirts arren't amazing but I still wear mine down the pub. Who cares what people think. You have just done a remarkable thing...enjoy it and wear it with pride.
is the t-shirt shit - YES - don't have one but I can imagine as its prob similar to the shit I got from IMUK
Could they not give you one you could wear down the pub - No cause that is just odd...no-one is saying its not an achievement, because it is but wearing a t-shirt from an event down the pub is just plain wrong.
Yeah wear it with pride and don't forget your paper bag over your head, cause while your wearing you will remember that the t-shirt is shit. Better still just use it as a duster.
DotM is a huge corporation and the franchisees pay a whopping big fee so saving a few bob on a T shirt boosts their profit.
Other events have the same standard of T shirt, but then that is to be expected for th eproice they charge in comparison. On the Outlaw we got amongst other things a technical Polo shirt which I have never worn but it is uite nice. I do wear my others for gym, gardening etc or simply when I want a T shirt, stick my hand in the drawer and pull out the first one that's available.
But really, wear one of those dire looking crap t-shirts down the pub? Are you having a laugh.
I could perhaps see the point maybe out a training run or something but the pub? If the question was do you wear you shitty t-shirts out training - I may have said yes but to the pub???
I bought a 2xu Abu Dhabi T-shirt at the expo before the race - would I wear it down the pub... eh no.
So how long do you keep wearing your t-shirt then?
Oh look at me I'm wearing my noidea triathlon finishers t-shirt from 1886... I'd rather they binned the t-shirts altogehter. Waste of money... proabably took some little indian kid 2hrs to make that and get paid 20p,
Wear it with pride mate.
Way better than some fatso wearing a football top glaring at someone across the room who's wearing a rival team shirt.
I was gutted that the one I got at Belvoir last year was a technical one, as the picture on the front is pretty cool for a triathlon one.
Again personally, I wear my non technical t shirts quite a lot, granted not for black tie affairs.
I see them as free t shirts, but my wife often reminds me that I probably pay upwards of £40 for these 'freebies'.
Shall I start the debate about IM tattoos now........
I did say that you are unlikley to get a fab T shirt as that eats into profits although the first one I got is quite a good design, some are so banal I simply don't collect one, one I use for cleaning my windscreen and coincidently today had a big sort out and chucked out 4 or 5 that had been lurking in the back of a drawer.
If someone wants to wear (a decent) one to a pub why not? I see people wearing Tshirts with AC/DC, Harley Davidson, Nike (Just Do It - what eat more pies), Chelsea, Man U etc. In the same way if someone wants to get a dotM tattoo then that is their choice, certainly not for me
Compression socks are hidden under my designer jeans.
Garmin 310XT is just dismissed as a kids transformer/Ben10 watch.
Cycling tan lines hidden (its the jeans again)
Oakley Jaw bones (Juan Pelota Ltd Edition) perched on top of my head so practically invisible.
Faint smell of Sudocrem
Loads of other people are drinking soda water.
I'm proud to have done an MDot race, and to have been awarded the title IronMan, as it was a journey I thought I'd never start, but once I did, the destination seemed unachievable. Every now and then, when my motivation is waning, and I'm struggling to get out of the door for a ride/run, then I sometime put on the rubber bracelets from the run in Bolton, and it gives me the inspiration I need to haul ass, and get going.
And I got the tat