Someone has decided that this needs fixing though, and today they released their final design for the finishers medals in 2014. The feedback on Facebook, and in the various groups has largely been – once again – poor.Īs individual medals, these are not the Spartan Race medals people know. These are not the medals that people were inspired by. They don’t stand alone, as medals to themselves. If you are only able to run a Sprint (and many *many* people only run a single Sprint) – then you will have a 1/3 chunk of a medal. You also no longer earn a trifecta medal. I guess this is a logistical blessing for Spartan, as they could never stock the trifecta medals properly anyway, but for the athlete pushing outside their comfort zone, they no longer earn anything for it … oh, sure, they could clip their existing medals together … it’s far from the same reward that Spartan has been touting for the past two or three years. My real concern stems back to – it wasn’t broken, so why fix it? When people have dozens of boring, cheap cotton finishers shirts clogging up their closets, and just want a new style – when people are unable to buy race venue specific shirts because they ran out of stock by 10am Saturday – when trifecta medals are running out at their world championship, then showing up in the mail 2 months later … is a medal redesign *really* the thing to be worrying about?Īugust 9th 2013. We had just finished our very first Spartan run. We were covered in mud, sweat, blood and more mud. We loved the whole idea of the run the crowd, the activities, the obstacles, the true grit. We would wear our medals around the house, the bumper stickers were on the car, text messages ended with ‘AROO’.
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