Is a finishers medal enough for your hard work?

An M-Dot tattoo will solve your problem. 

In all seriousness, I'm not sure what you're asking. How to brag about your accomplishment (that most people don't really care about)? This is clearly a sales pitch, but I'm not sure what you're selling -- even after visiting your FB page and website...

Originally posted by 3mar

Originally posted by timbig but I want something more

After every race I do I get a finish time, and more importantly, a finish place relative to other competitors, and also a USAT score. These tidbits let me know what training has worked and what has not. It allows me to adjust and rework to limit the amount of people that finish in front of me at any given race. That's what I get that is way more important than a medal, shirt, shrine, statue, or whatever. IMHO a medal, trophy, statue erected to your greatness...or any other single material memento is just that; it's a single stationary thing. There's no long term fulfillment there. Pick a target that is constantly moving and enjoy the process of chasing it. If the process isn't enough then you're not going to be fulfilled. I will say that pint glasses are always welcome...those are the only trophies I get any use out of

Bro, I know some people to send to tear your chit down.

ok LB, they do exist. I stand corrected.

I would also like a medal after every training run!

Does https://www.ironmanstore.com/ not meet those needs? There's even multiple categories for "support crew" items (shirts, hats, camp chairs, coolers, keychains, flags, medals, cowbells...). I'd say they've put a little too much thought into some of those items LOL!

Wait - you're supposed to give a gift to your signiificant other that is IM branded because you did an IM branded race?  Can that take the place of remembering an anniversary or valentines day?  Otherwise.......no......hell no.

All I need are some tasty waves beers, a cool buzz, and I'm fine!

I've never felt the need for more, actually would prefer less these days.

Facebook memories are the (free) gift that keeps on giving.  I have over 100 races logged in Athlinks and that's not covering every race, so I stopped trying to keep track of each one - no matter how momentus they seemed at the time. 

I think you will have to do a lot of work to advertise and market the Athmentos product, however it turns out.    There are so many things on the market that touch into this space and MANY MANY people great their own momentos in the form of t-shirts, tattoos, scrap books, etc. in addition to the regular stuff (Facebook, Instagram, race giveaways, etc).   Most "Ironman" (meaning that brand, not just iron distance) finishers I know have bought multiple pieces of apparel that is worn often - and other things incorporated into daily life, like water bottles, necklaces, stuff on their car,. 

Get the medal, then donate it here:  http://medals4mettle.org/

That should help you feel better.

Absolutely not.  Well... unless your are Wreck-it Ralph.  All he needed was a medal. :-)  Werck-it Ralph needed his medal for his peers to accept him.  He already knew for himself that he could earn the metal.  The metal was just a tangible token of his self worth to show to others.  

So..you probably don't need a medal at all for your hard work.  The medal is not required to celebrate.  It is not required to reflect on the day.  It doesn't show the effort nor fun that you had while training, etc. If you are happy with who you are then you don't need to prove anything to anyone else. 

If you feel you need a medal then it will NOT be enough for your hard work.  You are are going to need a taste of cake and a home in the penthouse too for it to be worth it.  

Fortunately my company firewall blocks the Google Forms site, so I can't get past that to find out what you're really selling here. Nice first post, though.