April Fool’s Day running pranks

A bunch of shoe companies and other media covering running got involved in today’s April Fool’s Day fun.

These are some of our favourites:

• Let’sRun.com ran an article on United States Track and Field (USATF), the sport’s governing body in the country, being absorbed by Nike.
• RunKeeper, a fitness-tracking app company, announced they were adding new regional dialects to the app.
• FloTrack published a story about USATF firing all coaches and having the general public coach athletes on Twitter.

Also, a few good ones from Twitter:

Just another day in the world of athletics… pic.twitter.com/MwIK60EIev

— Jon Mulkeen (@Statman_Jon) April 1, 2014

Sick of buying shoes AND socks? Try the new Sauc-Knit 0mm compression knee high racing flats. #SaucKnit pic.twitter.com/z0d1VFHnyU

— Saucony (@saucony) April 1, 2014

Of course, with all this joking going on, we kept it honest today and gave readers a sneak peek at our May cover.