Session Pants

Tracksmith was founded in Boston in 2014 by Matt Taylor — a Yale track alumnus and former Head of Running at Puma — and Luke Scheybeler, co-founder of Rapha. The premise was simple and stubborn: the amateur Runner, the post-collegiate competitor, the sub-3 marathoner with a day job, had been forgotten by a sport that only sold to pros and beginners. The debut collection in 2014 was two pieces, the Van Cortlandt Singlet and Van Cortlandt Shorts, and a decade on the Van Cortlandt fabric is still the racing line, the Cornell-derived diagonal sash is still the mark of a scoring athlete, and the hare — drawn by British illustrator Gary Chalk and named Eliot after Boston's legendary runners' bar — is still embroidered at the chest. Boston-born, Ivy-sashed, published in its own quarterly magazine (METER), and honoring the Amateur Spirit upon which the sport was founded.

The Session Pant is Tracksmith's answer to the question every Runner asks in October: what do I wear between the singlet and the tight? A Tencel-blended 200 gsm fabric (33% Tencel, 33% Poly, 31% Nylon, 3% Elastane) with Nilit Cooling yarn, a tapered leg, an elasticized waist with internal drawcord, side-seam pockets, and a zippered back. Clean enough to wear off the run, technical enough to wear on it. The pant that earns its price in the shoulder seasons — March in Toronto, October in Boston, a cool travel morning in the middle of summer. The men's Session Pant — Tencel-Poly-Nylon at 200 gsm, Nilit Cooling yarn, tapered silhouette — the one that earns its price by being worn four days a week for eight months of shoulder-season running and off-the-run wear.