Turnover Tights (Lined)

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 Turnover is Tracksmith's winter tight — an 80/20 polyamide-elastane face fabric with a brushed fleece interior, four-way stretch, a compressive close fit, a zippered back pocket, and reflective detailing at the calf for the 5pm December runs that start in full darkness. Built for Newton Hills reps in January, the Charles in February, the weeks when running becomes less about PRs and more about not losing the fitness you spent summer earning. Close-fitting warmth without bulk. Turnover is a running term — the cadence of the foot strike — and this is the ceiling-price bottom in the Tracksmith range, built around an Inverno-family brushed-back construction for genuinely cold winter work.