Spot the mistake: Shamrock Marathon medal
Take a look at the medal on the left (click on the image for a larger photo if you need to), and see if you can spot the not so deliberate mistake. Nearly 2000 marathon finishers (me included) are now the proud owners of this one of a kind medal. Found the typo yet? No, there’s nothing wrong with the name of the event and yes, the date is correct too. If you still can’t see it (and hundreds of runners yesterday didn’t notice until some bright spark pointed it out), it’s the missing “I” in Virginia. Yes, that’s right, the Shamrock Marathon was held this weekend in Virginia Beach, VA, not Virgina Beach, VA…..
Race Director Jerry Frostick was quick to take full responsibility. Shortly after the race he explained that he’d had proofs of the medals for three months, checked and double checked he was happy with them and still didn’t catch it. In all fairness, it is actually quite hard to see if you don’t know it’s there. I took mine to work with me today and only 1 or 2 colleagues spotted it!
On a positive note, it will probably become a collector’s item in years to come. I wonder if any will show up on eBay???
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May 6th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Good find. Its amazing how easy it is to miss things like that, we all just read what we want to read.