Vintage tri memorabilia

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Anyone here have cool remnants from the past?

I was browsing around a second-hand bookstore the other day and stumbled upon this. I would have bought it for a dollar, but I figured I had a pretty good training plan already...

 

Paul Hough

I have my finishers medal from the 1980 Tinman Triathlon at Menomonie, WI. It has the Tinman on it with the race distances-- 1 mi swim, 55 mi bike, and 20k run. I also have the race flyer in an old scrapbook. It cost $15 to enter. I thought that was outrageous, but did it as a one time thing when I was young. Little did I know!

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Haha, that's awesome Paul! 

I think I'm going to keep my race registration receipts as mementos for the future. I imagine shelling out $600 nowadays for a WTC race is going to be considered chump change in a few decades...

Norton

I have my T-shirt from the 1988 Endurance triathlon. This was the National IM champs that year and my first IM. We didn't know jack about training and racing but somehow I set an IM PR that lasted until 2009!