Here is a strange item from the running boom. I think I got this in the early 1980's at the Boston Marathon. I found it in a box of things I was cleaning out. It is a plastic straw that you wore around your neck during a marathon. It was supposed to make drinking from a cup easier and less messy while you were racing. I remember trying it out, but I don't remember how well it worked. I do recall it bouncing around my neck and constantly trying to keep the straw inside my singlet.
At least that it what the people at Adidas said it was for!
UPDATE:
Here is a picture of Craig Virgin on his way to a 2nd place finish at the 1981 Boston Marathon wearing the same Adidas straw around his neck:
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