DIY: Race Bib/Medal Holder

Today was the day that I finally went ahead and made myself a race bib/medal holder. I’d been promising myself that I’d do it for a while, but for some reason or another, I never ended up getting the project started (or finished). Today, though, after getting my haircut, I headed over to Michael’s and picked up a wood plaque and some paint to begin my adventure.

Honestly, the whole process was pretty simple once I figured out how I wanted things to be laid out. If I wasn’t a math person, it probably wouldn’t have been as fun to design, but after I figured out where everything was going to go, and I painted the board, everything seemed to come together really quickly. I did run out of square “L” hooks and I’ll have to go buy some more at the store pretty soon, but overall I’m very pleased with the results–and it didn’t hurt that my nicest, most colorful bib just happened to be the most recent, either.

Tomorrow, I plan to go out with my best friend Frie to the mall, which will allow me to stop by the vinyl decal kiosk while we’re there. I’m not quite sure what I want to stick across the top, but it just needs one last little something. Oh! And the reason that neither of my 10K medals are hanging up on the wall is because I dropped them off this afternoon at the engraver’s. I’m getting my race times put onto the back of each one so that I can tell my times for each race without having to look on Athlinks.com or flip through my race bibs. Hopefully they’ll turn out nice. The guy is only charging me $3 per medal.

I’m off to be buried in homework for the rest of the weekend. Once I head down to SO’s house, it’s all about getting all my chores for other people done before I scrounge out the remaining time to get my classwork done. Cheers.

 

Peace Love Run 10K

Results

Bib & Finisher Medal

Tech Tee

Set a new PR today and was delighted to have my mom there to see it! And we got to come home with some swag, too: a groovy VW bus finisher medal and tech tee for each of us.

They’re having another run here later in the year. I will definitely be running it again. Parking was easy; the area was gorgeous, and the fun I had can never be matched.

Color Me Rad 5K

Saturday was another race day in paradise. Although my day started much earlier than usual, it ended up being a blast. I woke up at 4:15am to eat and make my way Downtown. The one route I knew, however was blocked off for the run, though, and I got horribly lost. When I asked a local officer how to get to the parking and staging areas for the event, he told me “Take a right on 6B and then a right onto Harbor.” Well, I assumed ‘6B’ meant the intersection of 6th & B Streets, but I ended up horribly lost trying to follow this guy’s directions because he pointed me in the direction of National Drive (Avenue, maybe?).