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Marathon PB? Here's How to Actually Display Your Running Medals

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:05:13 GMT

If you run, you probably don't have one medal. You've got a shoebox of them — the first 5K, the half that went badly, the marathon that went better than you dared hope, maybe a few from years you can barely remember running. Ask most runners how to display running medals at home and the honest answer is: they don't. They pile up.

That's a shame, because a runner's medals aren't identical trophies. They're a timeline. The 10K you did on a whim. The half you trained for properly. The marathon PB you'll talk about for the rest of your life. Thrown in a drawer together, they lose exactly the thing that makes them worth keeping — the fact that they're all different.

Why runners end up with more medals than anyone

Running is a sport of repeat customers. You don't run one marathon and stop — you run one, then chase a better time, then a different distance, then a different city. Every race hands you the same shiny disc on a ribbon, so after two or three years they start to blur into each other. Was the 03:58:25 the Brighton marathon or the Manchester one? Which year did you finally break four hours?

Without something that pins each medal to its story, you lose the details that mattered on the day.

What actually works for marathon medal display

A few things make the difference between a medal you're proud of and one you've forgotten you own:

● It names the race and the time. "Marathon" isn't a story. "Karen’s London Marathon, April 2025, 3:52:14" is.

● It separates your PB from the rest. Not every race deserves equal wall space — your best time deserves to stand out from the medal you got just for finishing.

● It looks like running, not like a generic sport. A silhouette of someone mid-stride does more than a plain hook ever will.

● It's easy to keep adding to. If you're still racing, your display needs to grow with you, not get redone every year.

How MyMedal works for runners

MyMedal's running silhouette — available in male or female versions — sits next to the box and is built for exactly this: a runner mid-stride, not a generic medal icon. On the box itself, you get up to five lines of your own text, so the race name, the date, and the finish time sit right there alongside the medal, instead of living in your memory (or your Strava history).

You pick a colour — White, Gold, Silver, or Rose Gold — and mount it with the included 3M Command strip or the integrated nail slot, whichever suits your wall. At 56g it's light enough for any ribbon, and it's printed within 24 hours of ordering, so a PB doesn't have to wait long before it's off your neck and onto your wall. And because the medal simply sits in the box rather than being fixed there, you can always take it out again later if you want to wear it, swap it, or rearrange your wall.

One PB, or a running wall

Some runners pick their single best time and give it real space — one box, done properly. Others build a running wall over time: half marathon, marathon, ultra, one box per race, growing as the racing calendar goes on. Both are legitimate. The point isn't to display every 5K you've ever finished — it's to stop your marathon PB from living in the same drawer as everything else.

If you haven't seen it yet, this post picks up where How to Display a Race Medal So It Doesn't End Up in a Drawer left off. Next up: what to do if your medal isn't from a race at all.

How to Display a Race Medal So It Doesn't End Up in a Drawer

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:48:58 GMT

If you've ever finished a race, you'll know the feeling: someone puts a medal round your neck, you're on a high for a day or two, and then it goes... where, exactly? For most of us, the honest answer is a drawer, a hook on the back of a door, or a growing tangle of ribbons nobody looks at again.

That seems wrong. You didn't train for months, or push through the last mile on nothing but stubbornness, to have the only physical proof of it end up out of sight.

Why medals get forgotten

It's not that people don't care — it's that most medals aren't designed to be displayed. A ribbon and a disc don't sit flat against a wall, don't hang cleanly, and don't tell anyone (including you, six months later) what the medal was actually for. Was that the half marathon or the 10K? Which year? What was the time?

Without context, a medal is just a shiny object. With context, it's a record of something you did.

What actually makes a medal worth displaying

A few things turn a drawer medal into a wall medal:

● It has to mount properly. No awkward propping, no medal sliding sideways on a nail.

● It has to say something. The race name, the date, the finish time, or a short line only you would write — that's what makes it yours rather than a generic trophy shape.

● It has to fit where you'd actually put it. A hallway, a bedroom wall, a home office — not a display case you need to build.

● It shouldn't be lost among ten others. One medal, properly presented, tends to mean more than a rack of them competing for attention.

How MyMedal approaches this

MyMedal is a personalised medal display box, 3D printed to order here in Great Britain. It's built around a simple idea: one medal, one story.

Each box is made to your own text — up to five lines, so there's room for the race name, the date, the finish time, and a personal line if you want one. You choose a colour (White, Gold, Silver, or Rose Gold) and, if you'd like, a sport silhouette to match what the medal is actually for — running, cycling, swimming, football, bowling, and more, in male or female versions. If your achievement isn't sport at all — a spelling bee, a music exam, a dance show, an academic award — there's a plain box with no silhouette at all.

Mounting is straightforward: every box comes with a 3M Command strip for damage-free wall mounting, plus an integrated nail slot if you'd rather use that. It's lightweight (56g), fits any ribbon size, and is printed within 24 hours of ordering — though shipping will add a little time on top.

It's designed for indoors only — a mantelpiece, hallway, or bedroom wall, not anywhere exposed to weather or damp.

You can order it with a medal included, if you'd like it to arrive complete and ready to hang, or without one if you're mounting a medal you've already got.

One box, or a growing wall

Some people order a single box for the one achievement that means the most. Others use it to mark every race or milestone as it happens, building a wall over time — often pairing each box with a framed race bib alongside it.

Either way works. The point isn't to display everything you've ever done — it's to stop your best moments from sitting in a drawer.

Over the next few posts, we'll look at MyMedal by sport — starting with running — plus how it works for non-sporting achievements and milestone gifts. If you've got a medal currently living in a drawer, this is your sign to get it on the wall instead.