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For his founder Matt Taylor likes to put it, amateurs.

We really go back to the original roots of the word amateur, and it comes from meaning

for the love.

You're running because you love it.

It has nothing to do with how fast you are, how many miles you run.

Running becomes something that, you know, when you wake up in the morning, you start thinking

about, okay, what am I going to do today? What's my run or what's my workout? Matt was a competitive runner in high school in college.

Later, after years of working in the running industry, he recognized that companies had

forgotten about the athletes who make up the heart of the sport. He created

Tracksmith in 2014, opening up shop right along the Boston Marathon route and

building a team made up of passionate runners. From the get-go, they've crafted exceptional technical

apparel with a classic New England aesthetic.

We put a lot of focus on material selection and material science and you know, Mar wool is a is a perfect example it is an amazing

performance fabric it's soft it's moisture wicking it keeps you cool the greatest attribute of Marino for runners that it literally

doesn't smell. But not all Marino wool is the same. For Trachsmith products,

Matt's team selected a unique and extraordinarily lightweight blend.

And then they put it to the test in the way that only an authentic crew of runners could.

I actually made everyone on the team wear the exact same shirt for two weeks every run.

Some people were running you know 80 miles a week some were running 30 but you had to

wear the same shirt every time you ran. No washing and at the end of the

two weeks the the marino literally did not retain any of the odor that you would normally have in a technical

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