Turkey Trot Hats

Thanksgiving morning is the most popular race day of the year in the United States. Running USA counted a record 961,882 finishers across more than 1,000 races in a single year, and the crowds bring costumes, strollers, even pets, and matching family shirts. Races pay in pie: finishers at one Wisconsin trot walk away with a pumpkin pie. The slogans people actually copy onto shirts all say the same thing, which is that the run exists to excuse the meal. A Thanksgiving dinner can easily rack up 3,000 calories, and a 5K is only 3.1 miles. These Turkey Trot hats are for the people on that start line. The badges name the race and the runner, and the sentence designs carry the logic of the day: gravy counted as an electrolyte, a second plate as the finish line prize, the gobble-till-you-wobble pep talk, and a deadpan elite athlete in a turkey costume. Huffin' and puffin' for turkey and stuffin' and pour some gravy on me are classics from the Turkey Trot slogan lists, and they belong on a hat. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured cotton dad hat.