Trackhouse Sweatshirt

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.

Tracksmith's Trackhouse sits at 285 Newbury Street in Back Bay, two floors above the finish-line pavement of the Boston Marathon. The Trackhouse Sweatshirt is its uniform. An 80/20 cotton-polyester reverse-weave, heavyweight, pre-washed for dimensional stability, with a brushed fleece interior, ribbed cuffs and hem, and an embroidered Trackhouse mark at the chest. The kind of crew you wear over a singlet at a cold start line, then again on the couch by afternoon, then again six years from now. Hand-me-down worthy — Tracksmith's phrase, not ours. Navy, single colorway, named for 285 Newbury Street in Back Bay — the Tracksmith flagship two floors above the Boston Marathon finish-line pavement. This is the uniform of the building.