Big Feet, Small Ego
The motto of the Boilermaker 15k, “The world’s premier 15k event,” is “More than a race.” Truthfully, it made me scoff a bit when I read it on signage posted at the starting line. While that tagline may sound like a cliché, and indistinguishable from similar sentiments echoed by hundreds of other races, I discovered what that motto can mean, during the 47th running of what is, arguably, an iconic race.
The U.S. government recently passed sweeping running shoe legislation in response to exorbitant price hikes in running shoes and apparel and the accompanying bitching by millions of running citizens—legal running citizens—the government assures you. The government is dubbing these 10 amendments to the “Running Constitution” as the “Running Shoe Bill of Rights.”
So, what does it mean for U.S. runners?