November 18 (105)

Here is a shirt from the St. Olaf Triathlon in 1988.  I got college PE credit for taking a triathlon class and towards the end of the semester we had a simulated triathlon.  I believe this shirt is actually from another triathlon on campus and I think the cross country team was on the organizing end of the event ... sponsored by Schultzie's bike shop.

November 17 (104)

This is a shirt from a steeplechase race along the lakefront in Chicago.  I did this race at least three times but only have two shirts to show for it.  I don't know if this is from the 1991 race (which would have been on November 17) or from the 1990 race (which would have been on November 11).  Anyway, it was an excellent race where you jump over hay bales and run through water pits.   They even had a version you could do with your dog.

November 16 (103)

On this date in 1997 I ran the 'Old Reliable 10K' in Raleigh, NC.  The race was sponsored by the News & Observer which is why the runners on the shirts are delivering newspapers;  the caption on the shirt says 'we should have been suspicious when the race started at 5:00 AM!'

November 15 (102)

Here is a shirt from the Richmond Marathon that I did on November 13, 1999.  Jodi, Bruce and Kathy were all there to spectate.  One memorable detail of this race was seeing a guy around the 10 mile mark finally realize that some 'friends' of his had loaded up his fanny pack with rocks; as I was passing him he was lightening his load.

November 14 (101)

On this date back in 1992 I did a cross country race at Riis Park, Chicago.   There was some local high school alumni feature to this race but it apparently was also open to anyone else (although I guess I do have a high school diploma ...).

November 13 (100)

Here is a shirt (#100!!) from a race Jodi and I did about a year ago down in Key Biscayne, FL (November 10, 2007).   The race is called the Key Biscayne Lighthouse Run and turns out to be more popular than we thought -- the race was closed when we arrived but one of the volunteers was nice enough to let us in the race.   This turned out to be a problem for a couple of very fast runners at a race in DC this weekend -- they signed up for the race on race day (not officially allowed because money could not be collected on park property or something like that), won the race and then got DQ'ed.

November 12 (99)

Here is a shirt from a 'Brad' race that I did on November 10, 1996.  This was a duathlon (run-bike-run) up at Greenbriar State Park near Hagerstown, MD.  As you can see it is getting close to turkey time for shirt designs.