Greeting Cards for Runners
December 9, 2008 by Bryon Powell · 2 Comments
While you shouldn’t except a greeting card from iRunFar this holiday season, we’d like to introduce you to Far Gone Greetings and its line of running-related greeting cards. This impressively large selection of humorous cards were created by a runner who just launched Far Gone last month. Yes, many of them are groaners (see the illiotibial band card), but that’s what greeting cards are all about isn’t it?
Have friends who are triathletes or into yoga? Well, Far Gone has more limited greeting card collections for them and other hobbyists, as well. Help support a fellow runner’s dream by picking up cards for your favorite runners while there’s still time.
The Far Gone card to the right has us thinking …. why hasn’t anyone created a 401k race in NYC? Likewise, why hasn’t someone run 401k up and down Wall Street to protest its largess? Anyone up for such a challenge?
Any way, after you’ve looked over Far Gone Greeting’s running card collection, you can share you ideas for other cards with the founder.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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For those of you who are local to the DC metro area, Pacers Running Stores (Old Town Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Silver Spring) is selling these holiday greeting cards, though only at the Old Town Alexandria location.
They are also having their annual holiday sale (12/21) at Old Town and Silver Spring locations. 20% off entire store.
Among other holiday gifts, Pacers also has holiday gift boxes: http://www.runpacers.com/giftboxes.pdf
I just went to the Far Gone Greeting website and it is really cute–very funny cards. The best thing about it is they have a link where the company will e-mail you a brochure about the etiquette of sending greeting cards. As someone who writes a lot of handwritten notes, I found this highly appealing. And I was excited to learn about the company, because now I can send funny cards about running to my running friends!