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

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Apr 2018
10:29am, 19 Apr 2018
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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.
Apr 2018
10:40am, 19 Apr 2018
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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!)
Apr 2018
10:49am, 19 Apr 2018
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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.
Apr 2018
7:57pm, 19 Apr 2018
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Bazoaxe
Its a no from me. I do have a vest with BAZ in big letters, but not used it since maybe 2011
Apr 2018
3:07pm, 26 Apr 2018
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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).
Apr 2018
3:14pm, 26 Apr 2018
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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.
Apr 2018
3:14pm, 26 Apr 2018
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Autumnleaves
Now that is a good point!
Apr 2018
3:23pm, 26 Apr 2018
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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.
Apr 2018
1:20pm, 27 Apr 2018
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fetcheveryone
That’s a nice idea.
May 2020
10:29pm, 27 May 2020
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rf_fozzy
I think Wriggling Snake votes no on this

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I've never had my name on my shirt and have generally been indifferent to it.

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