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Of Race Singlets

Race singlets have never been a major factor for me in deciding to join a race. Until now.

My wife and I went to ROX in Boni High Street to register for the Goldilocks and Greentennial runs that will be held on May 15 and 22 respectively. Goldilocks touted a New Balance race singlet. In my opinion, it looked and felt more like a New Balance knock-off. Greentennial had a choice of a singlet or a T-Shirt. I chose the T-Shirt. I would have registered for these races, whether the singlets were great or not.

I actually prefer a finisher's shirt than a race singlet. I seldom use the race singlets because I'm usually not comfortable in them. They would either be too itchy, thick or heavy for me. The few that I used and liked are the singlets from Globe Run for Home 2010, Milo Manila Elims 2010 and Adidas KOTR 2010.

From ROX, we walked across to the Runnr store and there I saw a couple trying on nice neon yellow Brooks singlets. I also noticed they were holding registration forms. I then learned that Brooks also had a fun run - the Brooks Run Happy, and the nice singlets were the official race singlets. I thought that the singlet was really nice - somewhere in between your typical race singlet and the ones sold retail; leaning much nearer towards retail.

I pointed it out to my wife and she promptly analyzed the situation and concluded that it was a good buy at P500 (the race fee for 3k/5K and it had a price tag of around P1,400). I don't buy singlets at P1,400 but I buy them at P600 -P800 (the Goldilocks New Balance singlet had a P795 price tag; I won't buy it at P200).

So, for the first time, we registered for a race because of the singlet. Actually, we registered for a race FOR the singlet, because we knew we won't be able to join the run because it is on the same date as Greentennial. We'll probably just let some lucky runners use our slots (not our precious singlets).

We're actually contemplating on wearing the Brooks Run Happy singlets at Greentennial, so it's like being in two races at the same time. But we'll probably see a lot of shocked faces of people who wouldn't have the heart to tell us that we're in the wrong race.

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