RandMart wrote:
RandMart wrote:
ETA: I keep all my paper products [bibs, finisher certificates, and - in some really old cases - the postcards they used to send to the finishers with times and Overall/AG Placements, etc.] in scrapbooks; 3-ring binders, actually, the beefy 3-1/2" size I have 3 volumes: 80s&90s, 2000s, and 2010s
Maybe it's: 80s, 90s & 2000s, and 2010s? I haven't looked at the older ones lately to see where the split is
I just looked
Volume One: 1982-1995
Volume Two: 1996-2010
Volume Three: 2011-present
ericmulk wrote:
Serious question for you or whomever: why do you keep the bibs??? It has never even occurred to me to keep those and hence they were all recycled. Medals, ribbons, plaques, and trophies are on a shelf and desk in the corner of my bedroom, and/or in a drawer in my dresser. However, I do have a couple of awards from my civilian and military careers on the mantle over the fireplace in my living room.Easy answer is: I'm an old fdude, and when I started racing, there were no "everyone gets a finisher medal" protocols in place, so they're the only mementos I have from those early days [I never won anything, believe it or not #MOP4life]. Plus, I wrote my times & placings on the backs; as you can gather from the length of my "career" not all my results are in Athlinks ... more of them are NOT, actually
I'm not exactly "young" either but do you not have your logbook entries for those races??? (Surely you've been keeping a logbook all these years???) Those logbook entries are my records of the races in which i did not win anything; i have placed in my AG a number of times so do have some plaques/trophies and medals/ribbons (swimming), but only from maybe 1/3 of the 150 or so tri races, running races, and Masters swim meets that i've done. For the other 2/3, the logbook is the memory book. I have about 15 notebooks similar to your description, documenting my training for the past 39 yrs. Started my log on 1 Nov 1978 with notebook paper and pen and it has stayed paper and pen all these years. :)
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