Nine Attempts. Eight Hours: Powerlifting Meet Day Tee

A powerlifting meet is three lifts with three attempts each. Nine attempts in total, and a local one runs from weigh in to the last deadlift flight with the whole day gone. The lifter is actually on the platform for perhaps four minutes of it. Everybody else in the family sits through the rest.

Read by anybody who has not sat through one, it is an exam, a surgery or a recruitment process. Something grueling, bureaucratic and mostly spent waiting, which is not wrong so much as aimed at the wrong room.

Set as a circular seal with the two sentences arced around an engraved plate, full stops kept in. The stops are doing the tiredness. Eight hours describes a typical local meet day rather than any published figure, and no event or federation is named anywhere on it.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.