Subject: RE: Medals piling up Few Corrections here......I'm not a dude. The "dude" in my photo is Macca (AKA Chris MCormack ), several-time Ironman world champion. He was giving out medals at a race I did in Indonesia. I'm the woman next to him! I'm also not in Saigon right now (home with parents in Idaho ). And in Saigon, they celebrate Christmas too. Big Catholic population there, plus lots of people of every religion go in for the shopping, gifts, and tree thing. Tet is in mid-February this year. It's kind of a continuous holiday--most people put their stuff up before Christmas and then just leave it up till after Tet.
Anyhow, Merry Christmas!
I have been running since I was ten, so have countless of those medals. At this point, I only keep the ones that are really unique (some of the IM brand races have very cool ones ) or meaningful because of something about the race. The others get "repurposed"--I'm a teacher and coach so sometimes I cover the back with a sticker and write in the name of the recipient and what it's for. Our league doesn't give medals so I give mine to kids and relays that place in the top three in the championships, and other team honors. There are also some charities that will take unwanted medals for similar "repurposing", if you run out of tree space!
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