During track and field meets and during cross
country meets there are very tight restrictions on what you are able to wear
during your races. Over the last few years that I have been running in cross
country and track the rules have seemed to have gotten stricter. You can’t wear
more than one logo on your clothes and it can only be so big or you can be
disqualified and lately they have even decided that if you wear a headband when
you are racing it can only be one solid color, it can’t have in patterns or logos.
I don’t understand at all why it could possibly
matter if my headband that I am wearing for a cross country race is more than
one color. How can that have anything to do with how I perform or how others
perform in a race? I can understand the restrictions on logos because it is
like free advertising for the different companies and could influence some
people to buy a certain brand because a really good runner wears that brand but
I don’t see how a stripped headband is the same thing.
Another rule that they have for cross country and
track meets is that you can’t be wearing any jewelry. If you are wearing
jewelry during a cross country or track meet I could see how it could be
dangerous for a runner because it could be accidently ripped off or someone
else could get scratched or cut on it but it is very rare. The regulations that
are implied seem a little extreme and unnecessary for some high school girls
who are just running in circles.
The rules and regulations may not seem like a big
deal. All you have to do is to avoid buying clothes with a lot of logos, don’t
wear jewelry and buy solid colored head bands but the rules can be harder to
follow than expected. Any clothing that is actually of good running quality has
a logo on it so it is hard to avoid wearing clothes with logos. In track when
the season starts it is normally still pretty cold and at some meets you have
to wear under armor or running tights to stay warm and any of the running
tights that you buy are going to have a logo so you have to hunt for the
running tights that have a small logo or a logo that is easy to hide when you
are running.
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