RunningAHEAD - Topic: How do you display/show off your medals??

sholtsman

posted: 1/30/2008 at 5:31 PM
modified: 1/30/2008 at 5:32 PM

I have a few medals from local Half Marathons, but they're just hanging off the doorknob of a closet. Anyone have a better display method? Sara

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 1/30/2008 at 5:34 PM

I hide the evidence of my obsession in the back of my closet, where nobody can see it.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

joe_h

The voice of mile 18

posted: 1/30/2008 at 5:40 PM

mine are in a plastic container that used to contain wonton soup on a shelf somewhere unless the kids are playing with them somewhere

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jEfFgObLuE

I've got a fever...

posted: 1/30/2008 at 5:46 PM

I put mine on my varsity jacket. Which doesn't fit me (shrunk somehow) and has been stuffed in what used to be my bedroom closet for the last 19 years. Clowning around

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JakeKnight

posted: 1/30/2008 at 5:46 PM

Quote from Trent on 1/30/2008 at 5:34 PM:

I hide the evidence of my obsession in the back of my closet, where nobody can see it.

Did the Kross Kountry Krogerian come with a nice medal?

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Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 1/30/2008 at 6:04 PM

No. That run is inextricably intertwined with the sheer joy of distance running.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

Lifesabeach

posted: 1/30/2008 at 6:19 PM

mine are hanging on a hook, here, over my desk. noone ever sees them but me. Big grin

Jennifer mm#1231

SurfNRun

Prophet!

posted: 1/30/2008 at 6:32 PM

i don't have any Cry

cgerber

posted: 1/30/2008 at 6:36 PM

Quote from Trent on 1/30/2008 at 5:34 PM:

I hide the evidence of my obsession in the back of my closet, where nobody can see it.

Same here

zoom-zoom

rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 1/30/2008 at 8:45 PM

Mine are next to my computer monitor, hanging off of the window latch. 2 HMs and a 25k. This year I should be getting another 25k medal, another HM, and my first marathon. Smile

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remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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C-R

posted: 1/30/2008 at 8:54 PM

My kids get all of my medals except my MCM finisher medal which hangs on my bookshelf (sentimental reasons).

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BadDawg

posted: 1/30/2008 at 9:11 PM
modified: 1/30/2008 at 9:14 PM

Quote from SurfNRun on 1/30/2008 at 6:32 PM:

i don't have any

How can you be a two-time marathon runner without any finisher's medals? Some bizarre Hawaiian state regulation? I have three HM and one marathon currently hanging from a curtain rod finial.

E.J.
Greater Lowell Road Runners
Cry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.

sdewan

2010 Goofy Trainee

posted: 1/31/2008 at 11:10 AM

Mine are laying in the back of my closet somewhere. I was thinking of doing something with them, and I came across this display: http://www.marathonmemoriesnmore.com/page1/page1.html Nothing more than a glorified hat rack, but it's cheap and simple. I was also thinking about making a framed display myself by taking thin hobby boards from home depot, wrapping them with felt, and then stacking them up inside a frame, but that sounds like work.

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runrdan

posted: 1/31/2008 at 11:28 AM

All mine are in the side table drawer by my bed with the ribbons neatly folded. I don't think my wife would ever let me hang them anywhere. Besides, I'd kinda feel like I was bragging if I did hang them up.

Dan

andytrihard

Gotta TRI

posted: 1/31/2008 at 11:47 AM

Wow, I am totally new to running, but have completed one 5k and have built quite the shrine to memorialize it. I didn't realize I was supposed to throw the medal in a closet! Big grin

Seriously, I took like an 8x11 frame and placed the flyer for the race, my bib number, and a pic of me crossing the line in it and have the medal (3rd age group ) draped over the top of it. It's in my office at work.

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