Displaying your medals

polskagirl01

Ok, I know a lot of you keep your race medals in a shoebox somewhere, and I know people who have even thrown medals away...

BUT for those of you who do enjoy them and display them, how do you do it? There are some cool hangers online, but I'm sure you have other ideas, too. My cheapo-DIY-hanger thingy next to my desk needs upgraded. And YES, consider this an opportunity for y'all to show off your collections

Purplebunnysarah

Following... Right now mine are just piled haphazardly on a shelf my kids can't reach.

BruinsGal_91

I'm guilty of the shoebox method of storing, but that's only because I haven't got medal rack. And now I'm off to dig them all out of the box so I can admire them and take a picture.

spiriteagle99

My husband bought a couple of cheap racks at a discount store - maybe intended for ties? They have about 6 pegs. He put them in the basement in front of the treadmill to help with motivation.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

I got this on Etsy and the picture frame at the Container Store. So I put some of my favorite race photos in the frame and hang my numbers and medals on the hooks.




Only 2 of these medals are for winning, and they are age group winner medals. I'm not that fast, and the rest are just finisher medals.

MobyCarp

I found a nice medal rack at the expo in Boston last year:



My current practice for this rack is, I'm hanging marathon medals from left to right, Buffalo 2015, Boston 2016, Boston 2017. I'm hanging medals from other races for the current year from right to left. The rack was almost full in December, then I put all the 2017 non-marathon medals in a box labeled "2017."

It was my daughter's suggestion to box them up by year when there got to be too many to display all at once. Since she gets to dig through my stuff when I die, I figured following her suggestion was a good idea.

MobyCarp

Fair disclosure: Before I got the rack in the prior post, my medals were stored in heap in the hutch, and some hanging off the hutch handles, just not very pretty. I waited until I found a rack with lots of pegs that I really liked before I spent money to have an attractive solution. And it turned out to be even more money than the cost of the rack; turned out I had to FedEx it home because it didn't fit in my luggage.

BruinsGal_91

I've just been digging into my medal box and I've got a lot more of them than I thought I had. Some of them are participation medals (turkey trots, half marathons), and the rest are age-group wins, plus today's silver medal for being the second female finisher. I earned these, I really should display them.

The sharp-eyed among you will have spotted the BAA medal in there. It's for the 2010 5k, definitely not for the marathon.

pinelakecutie

I have one similar to @midwesterner85’s except mine is grey and personalized with my name and “You are stronger than you think.” There are two hooks on the left side for me to hang my bibs. (Sorry, no pic

MNLittleFinn

Here's mine. We're planning to make it the center of a picture wall there. My wife and I both put our medals on it.

Purplebunnysarah

@MNLittleFinn I need a love button for your hanger. I bet I could make something like that if I got my husband to make stencils for me...

polskagirl01

I kept meaning to come back and update this with the hanger I ordered. As you can see, there is a LOT of room for me to grow my collection! It also came with rubber band thingies that you can use to adjust the heights of the medals, but I haven't gotten around to arranging things any better than this.

And I'm not fast, either. Only three of those medals are for AG placement when no one faster showed up, and the rest are just for crossing the finish line

jennacole12

My husband makes medal racks

jennacole12

dewd2

I display all my race bibs and medals in the office until the end of each year (then I start over). At home they generally go in the shoe box.

KeepRunningFatboy

A majority of my medals I donate to Medals4Mettle.

But I’ve kept these as I work through 50 states.

T1DCarnivoreRunner

@KeepRunningFatboy I'm thinking about starting the 50 states and I'm curious where you got that rack?

KeepRunningFatboy

My daughter showed me a website called etsy? Its where people make crafts. I bought it off there.