Don’t ask me to come up with your team name…
I can’t even come up with my own!
Creativity is NOT my strong suit. I am not a very clever person! Especially when it comes to wording – slogans, titles, team names… I stink!
And of course, I am on a few teams this year that require names. Preferably, clever ones. What do I do when I cannot come up with something on my own? Ask for suggestions!
My sister came up with Team AWKward for the Ironman 70.3 relay. Our participant order is Andrew, Will and Kim – hence the AWKward. And we’re all awkward. Ha ha.
It was tricky coming up with something for this month’s 3-person 10-mile relay in NYC. I’m running on a team with Steven and his brother, and Gina is on a team with her husband and his brother. We wanted the same names for both teams, just with “Team Last Name” added on the end. We had a few ideas, and I even got a few suggestions, and… we had a few picky team members. Ha ha ha. So Gina came up with The Relayteds – Team Last Name. I loved it! Super clever, Gina!
One of the best team names I’ve seen was at RAGBRAI in 2005 – Team Megasuarus!!!
Are you good at coming up with clever names/etc.? What are the best ones you’ve seen?!
I do have to say, ONE TIME, I did have some good suggestions. Kayla was getting ready to run a Disney race and asked for slogan ideas for the back of her shirt. She actually ended up using one of my suggestions, and that made me feel super cool. Ha ha.
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Ugh, I’m the WORST at this! I couldn’t even name my son until hours after he was born! Lol.
Ahh! And that is an important name to figure out 😉
I like to think I’m clever but when it comes to things like team names I struggle!
I am horrible. I’m so not creative. At all. I try to be, but I’m not. I wish I had a creative mind!
Which 70.3 are you doing? I’m hoping Racine cuz I’ll be there!
RAGBRAI is on my list, I just can’t commit to an event of that duration now with the kids. Someday!
I am doing the one in Lawrence 🙂 I want to try RAGRBRAI too! Maybe I’ll bandit a leg of it 😉
I can be good at coming up with stuff like this, but it often references some inside joke so it’s not always funny to everyone.
Of course when I did the Lung Run and actually needed to come up with a team name, I was stumped. But when I asked my SIL, she came up with “Take My Breath Away” right away, because it was kind of funny and a little wrong. So sometimes it’s good to crowdsource these things 🙂
Ha ha ha. Yeah. That is the bad thing about inside jokes! I tend to want to do that too!
I love your lung run group name 🙂
Team AWKward! That’s awesome!
Trust me, I’m worse. Maybe not..
Since I attempted to help you with this, you know I’m not any good at it either!
I liked your suggestions. 🙂 It was just hard to get 6 people to agree on one idea.
I am so bad with words too! As evidenced by the fact that not even my blog name is my own creation. Except for spelling and grammar. I am good at this. Which is the reason why the first thing I noticed at team “megasuarus” is spelled wrong. Smart idea though! And I loved the “relayteds” team name. So clever! 🙂
I am horrible at this… but my sister in law is amazing! It’s crazy how clever she is with words!
I like AWKward! I vote for that one 🙂
Haha, I totally love that RAGBRAI shirt. (Iowa love!) I am generally not very good at coming up with clever names, although sometimes a good one will come to me out of the blue.
One of the best things to come out of IA!
I was wondering what you were getting at with your “lack of creativity” post since I was thinking back to the slogan contest. I’m glad I could be the beneficiary of the ONE time you had good suggestions haha 🙂