I sell them to TNT'rs as they get off the bus to the finish line. (San Diego Marathon Story see other thread)

...so some medals are ok to keep and display and others aren't?

I sell them to tribodyboarder

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How much $$$ do you think i could get on ebay for my IM finisher medals???

my kids get them...they like to play with them. After a while they disappear...oh well.

I do keep my race numbers though. I have a bunch in a file folder..one day I'll do something creative with them.

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dawson get the medals and plays with them until they disappear. race numbers i write the date times place, etc. on and pin up in his room. next to his big stolen tour of california sign :)

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All medals & ribbons go to my 4 year old and from there they pretty much disappear into the depths of the playroom or under the couch. She's convinced if I bring an award home for her than I "won". I don't feel compelled to explain the concept of CATs and Age groups to her, if she thinks I'm the winner than that's good enough for me. She sometimes gives me a little pep talk before I leave to make sure I'm going to "win" so she can get her "prize".

I hang mine on a bulletin board next to the treadmill in my basement.

[the 2000 Raid Gauloises Vietnam, the 96 Eco-Challenge, the 1999 Marathon Des Sables, the 2001 Jordan Telecom Desert Cup and the Antarctic Marathon.]
That is quite impressive... I am in awe.

Fred.

Hmmmmmmmmmm......

Guess I'll be the first to say that I have framed any marathon , HIM and IM with a small souvenir from the race.

Marathon(s) medal and timing certificate together.

HIM's medal and pic or cheque (1) together.

IM medal and pics and race number.

We have a family friend who does awesome framing , she does all the work.

I came close to going down the wrong road a couple of times in life , so I tend to display mine in my study ( my private place ) as a pleasant reminder that I chose the correct route and have enjoyed the fruits of down to earth hard work.

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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment" - Jim Rohn

pick up babes at the bars with em

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Insert Doubt. Erase Hope. Crush Dreams.

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Yeah, unfortunately Bush won without your vote anyway.

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Steve
That must be one big drawer!

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My wife and I both have our first Marathon medals in frames with a pic, race number, and certificate. They are hanging in our workout room. All others medals with race number etc go in a box.

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If they were real gold, he'd be friggin' rich!

Some of those trophies, though, look like real silver. I think a lot are for prestigious marathon wins.

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.

I wear them to parties and to speed dating events.

I don't do anything special with mine. I don't know where most of them are. I put them down on the counter after a race, and my wife usually puts them away. I'm not even sure where my IM medal is. T-shirts get hung in the closet, and I have a couple of them I really like and wear regularly. However, even with t-shirts, most simply stay in my closet. Now, if I were fast and had a bunch of first place trophies/medals, I might display them. I did hang two plaques that I won in small races on my old office wall, but I don't have them up anymore.

RP

My home is off limits for trophys, one sport picture allowed. My wife couldn´t take more sport invading our life. ;-)

I keep my Ironman and Marathon medals on a stick in my shop (along with a few IM shirts and memorabilia on a wall) Kind of cheesy, but gives me some credebiliy and customers love to look at them and talk about races.

I´ve done over 100 Triathlons and even more run races, cycle races etc. So I keep all the other medals and trophys in the shop basement on hooks and have the trophys on a board.

What I really collect religiously are result-pages. I have 5 big files full off them. I think I´m missing the results for less then 10 races only.

Should´ve kept the races numbers, too. Would be fun to look at after time. Only kept the ones with single digits.

Axel

I just throw them into a pile. Back from my swimming days, they just became a weekened acquisition...with over 80 national and provincial medals. Id be rich if they were made of the real stuff!

The modesty in here is almost sickening. Mine hang from a corkboard in my gym, which is in my basement. I'm really the only person that sees them, but to shove them in a box seems like a waste of training effort and registration fees.

"to shove them in a box seems like a waste of training effort and registration fees. "

Mine are only AG placings or finishing medals from local area tris or 5/10 kms runs. It's not like I have tons of them or like they're Olympic medals. Also have a lot of medals/trophies from my car racing and go-cart racing days. Stuff the whole lot of them in a box under the stairs.

This is a hobby. Medals aren't that significant. It's all about having fun.

Hanging on a peg board or on the wall. Race numbers get taped into a notebook with dates, times, splits.

clm

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Mine were in a drawer at home. I snipped the lanyards off em all, then put em on a bookcase at my office. My wife is happy that I am not junking up the house, and it gives me the chance to talk about myself to all the inactive people who drop by my office!

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Lar Dog

when i get enough i'm going to melt them down and cast all custom bike components and frame with which i'll collect more medals. currently i have enough medals to make a spoke and a valve extender.

I hang them on the door knob of the room where the computer is at home.Makes loud rattling noises to warn me that someone walked in and I am looking at porn sites..... :)