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Claude Burgundy · 21-01-2015 4:04pm

purple cow wrote: »

I think a fridge magnet is a great idea - although i get your point about maybe losing it with the big bag etc. I'd definitely display a magnet proudly on the 'fridge.
I have to say if there's a medal after a race i either don't take it or it eventually makes its way to the bin.....

Just to make it useable we are thinking a bottle opener as part of the fridge magnet.

robinph · 21-01-2015 4:25pm

It's all very well that people have loads of tshirts and so after a while we feel that we don't need any more, but don't let all race organisers suddenly stop providing tshirts or we'll regret it and soon run out of them. Also where will new runners be accumulating their kit from otherwise.

Best freebie was the fridge magnet that London Marathon gave us a few years ago that you could put your time on. Real shame they don't do that anymore.

P_Fitz · 21-01-2015 5:33pm

My hat from the Frank Duffy 10 mile and my mug from the Jingle Bells 5km get plenty of use. Much better getting those then tee shirts. Medals for small races are a bit silly too. Bottle opener is a good idea.

Dubgal72 · 21-01-2015 10:47pm

I could do with a pair of gloves this month

My Frank Duffy hat is getting plenty of use too!

22-01-2015 9:48am

There was surely a time when the teeshirt was a novelty. It seems that they have become all but compulsory, almost like the first consideration. Which is a bit of a pity. For me, while I like a good teeshirt, I've been at events where I have thought if they put as much thought into the run, marketing it, the organisation on the day, food after etc. as the teeshirt, then I might have gone back in subsequent years. I have loads of teeshirts for events that I haven't bothered with again, I can think of one where afair they advertised teeshirts for the first 1000 as if that was the entire issue, they got about a tenth of that.

KJ · 22-01-2015 3:28pm

I'm new to races. I only did my first one last year and have done about 7 so far. For me personally, I quite like getting a medal at the end but I do understand that if you have been running for years then the novelty would wear off.

Claude Burgundy · 22-01-2015 3:50pm

Well we'll always have medals at our events, its something nice to get and i know i've kept all mine.

diego_b · 22-01-2015 3:52pm

And the Off The Laois medal was a fine medal

Claude Burgundy · 22-01-2015 3:59pm

diego_b wrote: »

And the Off The Laois medal was a fine medal

Thanks,

We're cutting out the middle man and sourcing our selves in 2015, it should half the costs !

Cona · 22-01-2015 10:00pm

Personally I can't stand medals at a race. Not necessary and pointless, put the money to better use elsewhere. I don't care if you just finished a 10k race, unless you won it you shouldnt be getting a medal.

Claude Burgundy · 23-01-2015 11:23am

Cona wrote: »

Personally I can't stand medals at a race. Not necessary and pointless, put the money to better use elsewhere. I don't care if you just finished a 10k race, unless you won it you shouldnt be getting a medal.

As i said, everyone wants and thinks something different and in our events we ask and whatever the majority say is the way we go.

We asked last year and the majority wanted medals so we went with it.

purple cow · 23-01-2015 2:38pm

I have it!

A fridge magnet medal!

https://deemedlegallyfit.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/race-medal-magnets/

Dubgal72 · 23-01-2015 10:24pm

purple cow wrote: »

I have it!

A fridge magnet medal!

https://deemedlegallyfit.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/race-medal-magnets/

I am a bit worried that I like this idea so much.....

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