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Racing with your name on your shirt: Yay or Nay?

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DoricQuine Apr 2018 10:29am, 19 Apr 2018 3,994 posts	Quote Pin DoricQuine We had "Gran" and "Granda" on our Macmillan shirts at Loch Ness Marathon. Our first marathon and first race as grandparents It fairly amused the spectators and got us lots of encouragement.
Maz Heeps Apr 2018 10:40am, 19 Apr 2018 9,449 posts	Quote Pin Maz Heeps I loved having my name on my tshirt, but it does make you over emotional in the last few miles of a marathon..... and yeah, you do feel like a plonker when you wear said shirt on a normal running night (having packed your bag the day before and not realised!)
DeeGee Apr 2018 10:49am, 19 Apr 2018 17,943 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee There is at least one occasion, running with my name on, that it's been going so badly that I've stopped, unpinned my number and moved it up a few inches to cover my name. Sometimes you just want to escape. Usually I love it, though.
Bazoaxe Apr 2018 7:57pm, 19 Apr 2018 12,917 posts	Quote Pin Bazoaxe Its a no from me. I do have a vest with BAZ in big letters, but not used it since maybe 2011
Autumnleaves Apr 2018 3:07pm, 26 Apr 2018 12,260 posts	Quote Pin Autumnleaves I have to say the crowds cheering me by name last Sunday really helped, not sure I would have got through the tougher bits without it, and I am smiling on all my photos (having only actually spotted one camera).
larkim Apr 2018 3:14pm, 26 Apr 2018 4,548 posts	Quote Pin larkim I quite like it when the bibs have names on, but I always seem to be running with at least one other "Matt" (who invariably has more supporters on the route than me) so it can get annoying too! I wish marshals had names on so I could shout "thank you XYZ" instead of just "thank you marshal" all the time.
Autumnleaves Apr 2018 3:14pm, 26 Apr 2018 12,261 posts	Quote Pin Autumnleaves Now that is a good point!
Spideog Apr 2018 3:23pm, 26 Apr 2018 97 posts	Quote Pin Spideog I forget which race it was, but on a recent trail event each marshal had a sign with their name on on the same pole as the direction arrows. All printed up the same way by RunningImp as far as I could tell. The marshals had no way of going incognito.
fetcheveryone Apr 2018 1:20pm, 27 Apr 2018 19,265 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone That’s a nice idea.
rf_fozzy May 2020 10:29pm, 27 May 2020 9,984 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy I think Wriggling Snake votes no on this