Do It Yourself Wall of Fame

by Jodi

part of our Wall of Fame

Our family has been actively exercising for five years now.  In those five years I've run quite a few races.  My husband has run quite a few races.  Each of our four kids has run quite a few races.  We have a plethora of medals and race t-shirts between the six of us.

Most of the cotton T-shirts have been relegated to camping clothes or gifted to Goodwill.  The race t-shirts from big events were folded nicely in a basket on the top shelf of my closet.  Medals and bib numbers were shoved in random drawers.  But what's the point of that?  Memorabilia from the races that were significant is ... well... memorable and ought to be displayed.  And the bib numbers and medals from the races that we'd like to forget are still ... well... significant because we participated.

Our house is built on a lot that slopes up a hill.  We walk up twenty-one stairs from the garage to get to our main floor.  The wall space in that hallway is dinged up and completely empty.  Why decorate when no one sees it but us?  Then it dawned on me.   I could use the wall space from our stairwell for all our race memorabilia.  We could be Braggy Braggerson's for ourselves and not subject our friends and family to all our race bling.  An additional benefit is that (in theory) the Wall of Fame would be motivational.  Since we go up and down those stairs multiple times a day the bib numbers, medals, and framed pictures should encourage us to keep persevering even when we are tired.