I'd like just once to get something I could wear in public.
My gripes
1. Every road race has those gay as crap technical shirts now. WTF. Are you supposed to train in those or something? First off I don't run in a shirt and secondly those look really retarded to wear around.
2. The retarded designs on the front. Ok, your race supports a great cause, but you could have just put a few words on the front somewhere. No caricatures of runners or whatever else look good. Did whoever design the shirt assume their race was being run by retards? Well I guess they probably aren't too far off because who else would be swindled out of $40 to run a 5k.
3. Obnoxious sponsor placement on the back of the shirt. Guess that has to be there, but it could be made to look as nice as possible.
4. A race tshirt is supposed to be, gasp, a tshirt. I received a singlet for running a race recently. When I registered on race day, why in god's name would I race in a singlet with a race name and stupid picture on it.
5. Unless its late fall or during the winter, race tshirts should be short sleeve. I don't want a long sleeve tshirt in April that I cant wear for half a year.
My suggestions to race tshirt designers:
You are obviously incompetent or retarded. Know this when you make the tshirt for your race. Knowing this, lets skip the tshirt and put the race name, stupid design, and sponsors on a mug, socks, or commemorative something else. Most races I ran used to have decent tshirts just 7 or 8 years ago.