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British 10k - being made to wear provided t-shirts
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Just a slight overreaction there Ally?
"the T-shirt thing is clearly a grossly cynical marketing tool by Nike to turn us into identical drones with faint whiffs of the Nazi propaganda machine and their enforcement of wearing the Star of David,"
Not sure its either cynical or any whif of proaganda here and the link to the Nazis is I hope misplaced humour. Nike pay a lot of money to sponsor a fairly ordinary race, they negotiate the best deal possible to get the maximum publicity for their money. That seems like a sensible use of their resources. If anyone is being cynical its the organisers accepting the cash without thinking through the consequences.
And this race can be as bad as people say it is - truely piss poor organisation in previous years with a rubbish congested start after the mile walk from the baggage. Get there early or be prepared to wait.
I like my Tshirt and l will be wearing it .
I did this once before 2006 , It was my first 10 km ..
many races since then so looking forward to finding it
a bit easier this time !!
Great location , flat , just go with the flow , and enjoy !?!
If you enter a dodgy race like this one, and the rule is wear those crummy t shirts, then that's the rule!
you wouldn't turn up at a santa 5k wearing just shorts and singlet.
Either race it under their rules, or pick one of the other 20,000 in the country, and wear what you want
Terrific analogy. Moaning about a standard t shirt in some race that you've entered of your own free will, comparing it to the systematic victimisation of the Jews by one of the worst regimes the world's ever known.
You're either Frankie Boyle in disguise, or you have the worst sense of perspective ever seen on this forum,
Ok for the first time I looked at the website for this race. It took me about 20secs to find where it said you had to wear the t-shirt provided. In that little tab marked FAQ's
If this is some crypto-Fascist attempt by Nike its rubbish.
Rule number one in the Big Boys Black Shirt Book of Crypto-Fascist manuovering is"keep it secret dont print a t-shit"
By the way it looks hideous, all those people for a 10k!!??
Well its all for sweet charity i suppose;)
haven't read all the answers to this so may be a repetition.
Fold the tshirts up and pin on fancy dress so the number shows. Srtill wearing the tshirt then
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What could you say about that?
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Something like this?
Well there was a Polish man who lived on my road and he had a huge German Shepard and lived in an ivy covered house with an over grown garden with lots of chickens and stuff.Alone. Spoke to no one.
He would stand outside his house with this big dog and walk it around and I was always scared of that dog as a child and would cross the road to avoid it.
I had no idea how a Polish man ended up living on a road in Essex in the 70's/80's.
One day my mum told me he had out of the blue spoken to her. He told her what the Germans had done to his family when they came to his village. He was basically alone in the world. All my childhood I had known him and all that time he was alone. I suppose he told my mum because she was a foreigner too. I think she made more of an attempt to speak to him then. She had in part come to England to escape a colder war, though she still had her family.
It always amazes me when people talk of this or that action meaning we live in a "police state" or that is "Nazi" like. If its on TV and you can wriht to your MP your not in a police state. If you can walk away say "F U" and suffer no consequences its not a police state.
You can always spot the fascists they come in tanks and only tanks.
They rarely come in t-shirts, and when they do they are driving tanks.
The Polish man is dead now but I just now remembered his name.
It was Alfons.
The issue is that when I signed up last year the rule about the T-shirts was not there. Nike issued the "must wear the T-shirt we provide" thing after they took it over only a little while ago.
Anyway, it doesn't matter now as we've been told that we can wear our charity tops/fancy dress.
Faya - the rule has been there for a while (and especially last year) as the same complaint was raised in last years race. Nike try to enforce it but for charities they're ok with the charity vest- it's the 'normal' runners they want to wear their shirt.
I think everyone should wear Adidas tops. That'll learn 'em.
Fold up the t-shirt so only the number shows and pin it on! Simple.
I could be wrong but I believe you are not required to wear a club vest in a UKA road race unless running as part of a team.
Diane if you go back and look at the commenst from 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 ..... you will find "I will never run this race again too many people and a lack of organisation ruined the day for me far too stressful..." repeated over and over again
and yet the event is oversubscribed year after year....
I like the idea of wearing Adidas top in nike sponsored race lol.
Being over subcribed isn't the interesting thing.
The interesting thing would be to see what percentage come back the next year.
A lot of people go in for the hype of events.
See that race in 1985? Probably more of a race than the British 10k