'I’ve gotten rid of a vintage Gucci handbag, a beautiful copper pot, and my wedding gown. But I still have all my race medals.'
, a 199-mile overnight relay from Mount Hood to Seaside, Oregon. My husband drove the team van, and when it was my turn to sit in the front seat, I asked him whether he wished he were competing. “I would rather stick a fork in my leg than ever run another race,” he answered. Yet he’s saved the medals from the two races he’s run, both of which he signed up for under duress. We’re not the only ones with a medal-hoarding trait,coach Jes Woods tells me.
My friend Kim Fusaro, a runner since high school whose latest run streak is more than 700 days long, has divvied up her 20 or so medals among her kids’ dress-up bin, her in-laws’ house, and the key hooks by the front door. Last year she trimmed and stitched the ribbon on a 5K medal to make a smaller loop she could hang from a Christmas tree branch. “That way I had an ornament with sentimental value—and more to show for the $48 entry fee and 29:26.
Kim’s father-in-law actually sells medal displays. They would have come in handy for my father-in-law, who has only ever displayed his Boston medal, which he hung over a framed photo for a while. “All the rest of them are stuffed in a box somewhere,” he says. “Part of life’s detritus waiting to get tossed out someday.”
But not by him, not yet. Likewise for most of us with our own medals. Why is it, in this age of life-changing tidying up, we can not bear to throw these little metal discs away? Do they really spark joy?
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