Over the years we have done multiple race challenges and have earned multiple medals in one weekend. Of course after the last race it is customary to want to wear your medals around and if you are at Disney, it's almost mandatory that you do so! ( just kidding but why would you NOT want to wear your medal(s). Even if they have ran multiple race and have earned multiple medals, some runners choose to wear just one medal to the park because wearing all of them is just too heavy. Even if you choose to only wear one medal to the park, you may want to bring the collection of other medals you have earned to the park with you for a few photographs. So, if you do that, here is where packing the gloves comes involved........
Later on Sunday evening when all the races were completed, we wanted to get a few pictures with our medals when we went out for dinner. We only wore the Goofy Challenge medal but we packed the other medals in our bag and brought them with us. Before we threw our medals in the bag, we put them inside our stretchy gloves.
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| The medals actually did fit all the way inside these stretchy gloves and they were protected quite nicely. I left some of the medal hanging out just for the sake of the picture. |
This prevented the medals from banging up against one another as we toted the bag around. We also put the medals inside the gloves when we placed them in our carry on luggage before we boarded our flight home.
This worked our perfectly and a little tip we will remember when we participated in other multi- race weekends. We'll even be packing some stretchy gloves when we run the multi race weekends in VA beach even though it will probably be 98 degrees!
I suppose you could do the same thing by putting the medals inside your socks, but I don't like to stretch my socks out and these stretchy gloves work perfect!
Do you pack your medals with care when you travel home? Do you take ALL your medals to the parks with you?