Lucky Luke. Posted April 24, 2012 Share online entrants should be able to opt out of the medal and opt in to a charity donation. medal collectors get a gold sticker for their helmutt or whatever. those without are not offered one at the finish. simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agteros Posted April 24, 2012 Share I prefer for them to keep the medals, however I have no use for the water points. Maybe they should rather stop those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2012 Share How about a pair of socks with the race name and year instead of a medal? Socks are always useful and you can show off your prowess at the same time. Yeah! but a decent pair please. NO t-shirts asseblief, they ALWAYS give poor quality shirts that shrink at the back...always. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKvoodoo Posted April 24, 2012 Share the x-terra gave proper new balance running shirts, Very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted April 24, 2012 Share I prefer for them to keep the medals, however I have no use for the water points. Maybe they should rather stop those?For back markers who spend 4 plus hours doing a 100km ride WP are essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranswurm Posted April 24, 2012 Share We thought of dishing out boxer shorts with the event logo on last year but then thankfully changed to buffs as finisher mementos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKvoodoo Posted April 24, 2012 Share For back markers who spend 4 plus hours doing a 100km ride WP are essential. 4hr/100km's on a MTB ... not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandui Posted April 24, 2012 Share I still think the cotton badges are the coolest. Sew them on to your Camelbak , like the Backpackers with the rucksacks full of country badges. Old School! Caerus and 1 of 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKvoodoo Posted April 24, 2012 Share are there any organisers reading this ? please PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranswurm Posted April 24, 2012 Share are there any organisers reading this ? please PM me. I am an organiser...what do you want??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted April 24, 2012 Share 4hr/100km's on a MTB ... not bad.100km MTB will take me 2x that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 of 1 Posted April 24, 2012 Share I still think the cotton badges are the coolest. Sew them on to your Camelbak , like the Backpackers with the rucksacks full of country badges. Old School! ooo man i love that idea ... so cool !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted April 24, 2012 Share Yeah! but a decent pair please. NO t-shirts asseblief, they ALWAYS give poor quality shirts that shrink at the back...always. We get socks at the OFM classic, very good quality you see the guys with them in races two to three years later. I like mine a lot altjhough it doesnot remind me about the race. Look at my times for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNT1 Posted April 24, 2012 Share I am an organiser...what do you want??!! Yeah, answer his question before we admit to having anything to do with a cycling event... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezulu Posted April 24, 2012 Share Having ploughed through 9 pages of "I want" and "I don't want" I deserve a medal.... Seriously though, medals are worth keeping. I have only ever done 1 comrades, received my medal, and was proud of it.Unfortunately it got lost somewhere between moving and the 23 years in between then and now.Same with my gold for competing in the SADF athletics champs way back when, when I could still give a decent sprint of speed. My son is now the sportsman in the family, riding like the hounds of hell are chasing him. Each event and medal is special in some way.We note the date, and place he came in the event, on the ribbon of each medal.He has quite a few MTB handlebars mounted on the wall of his room, and all the medals hang there. Some events he did not receive a medal, and those times the dissappointment on his face is a memory in itself.His first "big" event was the 40km Induna in 2009, where he came in 99'th, placing him in the top 100.No great achievement by todays standards, but at that time it was a big deal. The spot where that medal should have been still hangs empty on the handlebar.The organizers had decided to hand the money they would have spent on medals to a local school. A good deed in anyones' book, but then again the school receives financial assistance from the goverment, while that medal might just have meant a lot to a 13 year old boy. Some medals mean less than others, some more. Yet everyone of them tells a story. What do yours tell you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranswurm Posted April 24, 2012 Share Yeah, answer his question before we admit to having anything to do with a cycling event... Smous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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