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Maritime Race Weekend is offering bonus vintage T-shirts for marathon finishers in 2018

Maritime Race Weekend
Maritime Race Weekend
Photo: Maritime Race Weekend.

After Maritime Race Weekend was declared ‘best swag in Canada,’ I started to feel added pressure (mostly from myself) to create unique swag ideas every year. I’m really excited about the first swag reveal for 2018.

Inspiration for creating a vintage T-shirt came to me in October while having lunch with the crew at Canadian Running magazine. We were discussing what sets road races apart from mediocre to exceptional events. It was agreed that swag is definitely important to runners and our discussion turned to the incredible vintage T-shirt our colleague, Dan Walker, was wearing. He said it was one of his favourite T-shirts and suggested that instead of a technical race shirt that I offer a quality cotton T-shirt with a worn look. I liked the idea, but it also scared me. To test the waters, I decided to offer it as bonus swag for the marathon finishers. In addition to the technical shirt in the race kit, marathoners will be given an ultra soft cotton T-shirt with a vintage design – but only once they complete the 42.2K.

Maritime Race Weekend
Photo: Maritime Race Weekend.

To this day, I get goosebumps when I see runners wearing Maritime Race Weekend gear on training runs or at other races. I can’t wait to see marathon finishers proudly wearing this T-shirt hanging out with friends, walking their dog or grocery shopping.

If the feedback is positive, then I’ll definitely consider more cotton designs in the future.

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