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Show me your medal display.
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...After a year I have a handful and storage is becoming a issue.

How do you display them without it looking like a shrine?

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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shoebox on the top shelf in the closet....

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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Most races I do don't give any out and I don't care too much for the few that I've got either. Usually I hand it off to my mom and that's the last I see of it.
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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At the bottom of a storage tub for extra Triathon/Running gear.
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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"How do you display them without it looking like a shrine?"

You don't.

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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I bought a wooden tie rack on ebay and hang them on that in my workout room
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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Four replies, and not one legitimate response yet. Because this is, after all, Slowtwitch. Look through the Pain Caves thread. You'll see some there...
Last edited by: anitan1: Aug 26, 14 9:48
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Re: Show me your medal display. [LonghornCyclist] [ In reply to ]
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Same here. Clear tub in garage with leftover parts.
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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Nice brag thread. Here's my shrine to all of my tri accomplishments.



How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: Show me your medal display. [anitan1] [ In reply to ]
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Ummm, these are legitimate responses.

The OP wants to know how to display medals without it looking like a homage to his greatness. Not possible. Put the medals in a box somewhere and get back to training. They're over, they're done with, they are now meaningless. What matters is what you do now and going forward, not to live back in your glory days and wish that if only coach had been smarter and put you in the game for that last drive, you coulda been State Champs. Past is past. Get over it and get on with the next thing.

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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Your floor needs to be levelled.

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Re: Show me your medal display. [JasoninHalifax] [ In reply to ]
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JasoninHalifax wrote:
Your floor needs to be levelled.

You need to be leveled.

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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Refrigerator magnets.

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Re: Show me your medal display. [SwimGreg3] [ In reply to ]
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SwimGreg3 wrote:
Refrigerator magnets.

This is actually a really cool idea!

Pink? Maybe. Maybe not. You decide.
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Re: Show me your medal display. [anitan1] [ In reply to ]
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Lance: Check out my lounge, Slowtwitch
Slowtwitch: Ugh, I throw my yellow jerseys in my spare parts bin. I'll get them back out only when I need to wipe off my chain.
Lance: <hangs head>
Slowtwitch: Your curtains are wrinkled
Lance: <sobs>
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Re: Show me your medal display. [Ellsworth53T] [ In reply to ]
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I'm pretty sure a participation medal from finishing is different than winning a jersey in the tour or a hunk of cobble from Roubaix.
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Re: Show me your medal display. [LonghornCyclist] [ In reply to ]
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Re: Show me your medal display. [LonghornCyclist] [ In reply to ]
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Lance didn't win any TdF jerseys though...

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Re: Show me your medal display. [JasoninHalifax] [ In reply to ]
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JasoninHalifax wrote:
Lance didn't win any TdF jerseys though...

Really? I see seven on his walls in that pic.

How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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My two IM finisher medals are hung up in my cubicle at work. Everything else is in a box in my basement.

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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Athlinks webpage
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Re: Show me your medal display. [BLeP] [ In reply to ]
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He got those while he was on a bike ride in France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...ow_jersey_statistics

Do you see Lance on the list?

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Re: Show me your medal display. [BigCheese] [ In reply to ]
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OK, I'll bite.

I don't do many races that give out medals, but the races that do are usually pretty cool, so I do like to remember them by keeping the medals out rather than stuffed away in a box. I have a really bad memory, and these things serve to jog my memory about cool stuff I've done. I have 2 small shelves (maybe 12-14" wide) in my room that have some of these medals hanging from it. I have medals/trophies from things besides triathlon there too...some plaques from sailing races and various other things that I've raced over the years.

I can't honestly say that I've ever looked at it as bragging--these shelves are not set up plainly displayed for all to see. Most of the medals I have are not even from races that I'd consider my biggest accomplishments--they're finishers' medals rather than some sort of victory medal. Basically...if I wanted to brag about my race resume, this isn't how I would do it. All of the people who would have the occasion to see my collection of medals and trophies have probably seen me race in person--they probably even saw the medals handed to me. They know how fast or slow I am. My little shelf of medals isn't showing them anything about me that they don't already know--everything that's there is there for me.

I'm intrigued by the folks that feel like they need to hide away their medals and whatever else they get from races lest someone think they were bragging or being too self-absorbed. I think it's an interesting commentary on the psyche...sort of in the way that people who are quick to point out a certain type of flaw in other people frequently exhibit that very flaw themselves.

Moral of the story: you can be humble without being ashamed.

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