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

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.