Issue 66 · December 12, 2024
All issuesAndy Williams absolutely snapped with the line, "It's the holiday season, so hoop-de-do and dickory dock." Nobody knows what it means, but it's provacative and that's showbiz, baby.
It's been a December to remember for the Bandit fam racking up a few meaningful awards, so bear with us as we firmly pat our own back right quick. TIME Magazine named the 6-Pocket Nova Crop™ to Best Inventions of 2024, Runner's World named our 7-Pocket Superbeam™ Quarter Tights to Gear of the Year 2024, and Rossi claimed the Astroland Ad Festival's top award for the Unsponsored Project—a rocket-shaped trophy that we're now going to buy a fireplace from Home Depot to hang it over. Thank you all for the support this year <3.
Everyone's been asking what would happen if we missed the B-Mail for the 3rd week in a row.... I guess we'll neva know. Year in review, the gift guide, the Bandit fam's top holiday movie picks, Flash, and Coach Kara's Valencia recap. Happy holidays squad.
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2024 was a helluva year for the program here at Bandit HQ. From the Unsponsored Project to teaming up with SVG for the Paris Olympics down to getting weird with it at a few of the major marathons (shoutout Braves), take a quick stroll down short-term memory lane with us as we look back at our favorite moments from the year...
YEAR IN REVIEW
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Do you have a crazy lil runner in your life this holiday szn? Well you've come to the right unhinged newsletter. Our Head of Marketing said that gift guides are what brands do to help make shopping easier, so they made one and pleaded with us to put it in the b-mail. Then he hit us with #EvolveGifting and won the case handily. Can't argue with that.
GIFT GUIDE
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We love a good list during the holidays. Everywhere you turn, it’s gift guides this and best-of lists that. So, we rounded up our team to create one of our own. Admittedly, we thought we’d escape without a Die Hard mention, but—sweet hot spiked apple cider by the fireplace—it made the cut. Take notes, and next time you see one of us at a pop-up, drop a deep-cut reference to our pick. Santas watching.
HOLIDAY MOVIES
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If there's one thing to know about us, it's that we love a good photo. The film lab on Starr Street quite literally hates to see us coming, but that's besides the point. Each year, our good friends at Portland Track put together a very important contest and we were lucky enough to play a small role in support of. Three categories, hundreds of submissions, all in the name of pushing creative in the sport forward. Talk about a GIFT.
FLASH PHOTOS
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Coach of The Program, Kara Grace Dudley, took a quick break from coaching duties to nab a big PB in España a couple weekends back and slayed some demons along the way. Something to do with practicing what you preach? We caught up with her for a good ol' fashioned Leonardo Recappio. Damn, I'm proud of that one.
VALENCIA RECAPThe art & design lover's hub that is Johannesburg. 7 of the UK's best upcoming art & exhibition gallery's coming up for 2025. Behind the New Yorker's gorgeous NYC Marathon cover art. Running as Ritual: The Spiritual Journey of Indigenous Prayer Runs. When artists made sports sexy in the 1924 Olympics. Why all of your favorite indie designers are opening stores right now. The Upper East Side is getting a dose of downtown cool? The pop-ups that are reframing Vietnamese food in NYC. A historical tracing of how running evolved into a global obsession.
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