What I love most about this wall is the journey it represents: Adventure, personal endeavor, joy, risk-taking, setting goals, hard work, pushing limits, competition, celebration!
It’s just a little wall leading into the laundry room. It displays race bibs from every race event that members of our family have participated in over recent years… my son, my daughter, and me. We actually trimmed out several dozen a few years back when the kids graduated from high school. But its growing again! Layer upon layer. Bib upon bib. Race after race. There are actually a few recent race bibs that haven’t been hung yet. Just sitting on the counter waiting to find a spot. Any spot.
Road races, 1-milers, 5Ks, 10Ks, half marathons, trail runs, triathlons, track, bike rides, duathlons, cross country, high school, college – it’s all up there.
There is actually a bulletin board under this growing medley. Oh, it’s there. But it hasn’t been seen in a while. Bibs are now being tacked directly to the wall, and overtaking the dry-erase board nearby. And the layers of bibs on the bulletin board itself are getting thicker and thicker.
There really wasn’t a plan. It was organic. A few bibs got stuck up there. Then another, and another. It’s grown into a tradition of sorts.
Sure, there’s a few pieces of hardware to go along with some of these bibs. But that stuff is tucked away somewhere else. This wall is for bibs! After all, a worn race bib is dirty and sweaty and colorful and wet and bent and folded and torn and bright! It’s magnificent! A true and personal representation of the event, the journey, and the experience. JOY!!
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