Just in time for spring cleaning, we asked readers to share their stories of treasured gear and apparel they just can’t part with.
I got the first year I came out for the team as a sophomore in 1996. I still wear it to train in and wash it by hand or delicate cycle, has a few holes and is really thin in the back. Fillmore High XC!”—“The T-shirt that I wore for my first 5K, the week after the Boston Marathon bombing.”—“These two shirts have been in the ‘donate pile’ so many times, but they always end up back in my closet.
That experience convinced me that I could travel long distances on foot & feel fine! I thought, ‘If I could walk all over London what else might be possible?’ Volunteering at the 1990 NYC Marathon totally switched on my desire to run the NYC Marathon in 1991—and I’ve been running it just about every year since!”—“This T-shirt from 1986, and I still have the certificate.
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