People running in suits

Stock photos can be a life-saver. There is a seemingly endless pool of useful, though often strange, pictures we come across while hunting for images. But after awhile you begin to see trends. One of those is that there seems to be a disproportionate number of stock photos of people running while wearing suits.

Below are only a few of what amounts to hundreds of staged shots of people running in suits. There are nearly as many pictures of people running in suits are there are people running in athletic wear. Where are these businessmen and women going?

Let’s start with this guy:

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This is a man racing a black bear on a city street.

The actual default caption which comes with this photo is “Businessman winning the business competition.”

Lunch run.

No better way to critique form than getting play-by-play shots whilst suited up.

In a suit, on fire, during an earthquake.

The perfect running ensemble for the CEO who is too busy to change out of business attire.

You’re only competing with yourself.