GUESS WHAT???? I FINALLY received my Timberman Medal!!!!!

Sorry for shouting but if you've been following along... my race was on August 22, 2010... that's about 3.5 months ago... I've gotten progressively more bitter about it as time dragged on...

So... needless to say, after receiving many back and forth reponses from Ironman, including: ' it will ship in 2-4 weeks', 'it will ship in 3-5 weeks', 'we received a shipment but there still weren't enough', 'we are still waiting for additional shipment', 'it has been shipped', 'it's been shipped 3 times we are not sure why it is not reaching you... what is your address again?'...

I then find out that the mailing company they use 'can't ship internationally' - Wow!  How inconvenient for me, eh? 

After firing off several increasingly irate emails to the organization (I mean, really, 3.5 months after the event I still didn't have a medal???)  guess what arrived in my mailbox??

No, really... GUESS...

I didn't get a medal....


I GOT THREE MEDALS - each mailed separately, 2 of the 3 had a mislabelled address... they all arrived within a day or two of each other...

(In other news, earlier this year, my husband received an award for SOMEBODY ELSE who had placed in her Ironman race...her FIRST NAME was similar to his LAST NAME... so we can see why that was confusing to the people mailing stuff out...ahem...)  Come on, guys... all that money that you collect in race fees, and you are wasting it on preventable inefficiences like this?  Shaking head...

Anyway... so now I have 3 Timberman medals and unless Ironman is trying to send me the message that I finished the race 3x slower than the 'average bear'... I now have one at the office for inspiration every time I think I can't do something... one on my bedpost... and one in my bag - to show every single person who will stand still long enough!!  YEAH!!!