Hi fellow runners!! Having just done the Shakespeare Half on Sunday am very pleased with my medal (although it's not quite as good as the 2009 version) so am searching for another half-marathon event where you can pick up a quality medal. Has anyone done either the Coventry half-marathon or Swindon half-marathons? Just wondered if they were quality and what they looked like? My favourite ones are FLM and VLM, plus my medal from the Birmingham half that I did last year! Cheers
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Edinburgh marathon relay marathon is my shiniest by far. Pretty chunky too.
My favourite medal was from the Sneyd Striders Christmas Pudding Run. It was shaped like an angry, running Christmas pudding.
Sadly they didn't do medals last year, but we did get a slate coaster with the same angry running Christmas pudding on
I can claim to know a thing or two about medals
Of my considerable collection, I think the best are from the Indian Queens Half (rectangular, weighs a tonne and in the form of the flag of St Piran) and the Eden Project Marathon (big enough to eat a pasty from).
But any medal is a good medal.
I think I'm up to 36 running & 1 bike (which I don't really count). To keep me on target I need to get at least 20 this year, hence my status with how I'm getting on so far.
http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/02/16/what-are-olympic-medals-made-of.htm
Mainly silver in the gold it seems!
I still don't like yellow gold but I'd definitely go for 1st place now.
Good luck with the challenge, K8
Keep us posted ... the Mundane Thread is probably a good place ... until you get close to the target, when it stops being mundane!
I've had the pleasure of handling a gold medal from the Sydney Olympics - 'twas very big and heavy.
Unfortunately the guy that won it wouldn't let me keep it
I like the BUPA 10,000 ones best - they always have London landmarks on the back.
and Toughguy also do horse brasses - you certainly earn that one if you do the winter version!!
I'm not very interested in medals, and the bigger and chunkier they are the less I like them. I think the VLM one is even nastier than the FLM one was. Looks like something Jimmy Saville would have worn.
Most seem to be very cheap and poor quality, don't even have the event name on the medal sometimes, and even if they have the name, they often don't have the date (means they can use any left-overs the following year). British race organisers seem to think that as long as they get a medal out, it doesn't matter if it's crap.
Of the ones I've had that I liked, most have been from overseas events, rather than British. The Amsterdam Half Marathon was quite nice, and the Transbaie race in northern France does a good medal.
The Somme Poppy marathon medal is good - enamelled, with a poppy on it (surprise!).`
The nicest English race medal I've got is from the Burham Beeches half a few years ago.