Polar RCX5 Run Package Giveaway

June 7, 2011 by |Uncategorized|Comments (1,409)

There are many things in the world where one usually sits firmly in either one camp or another.  For example, a few of life’s great dividers:

Boxers or briefs
Hot dogs or hamburgers
Bow tie or straight tie
Coke or Pepsi
Mac or PC
Paper or Plastic
White bread or wheat bread

And for you folks hanging out around these parts, there’s probably the most famous of all:

…Garmin or Polar

While the great majority of giveaways to date here have been Garmin focused, I’m going to venture over to the other side and giveaway a bit of Polar goodness…the brand new Polar RCX5:

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Late last week (after I had published my in depth review), Polar approached me about giving away a brand new RCX5 to y’all.  Initially they weren’t sure what I’d say, simply because I always buy my own giveaway prizes (you did know that, right?). 

But, there’s one caveat to my rule – which you may remember from the survey results back in March. I had asked whether or not you would be in favor of giveaways that were for hard to get items, in cases where the company supplied the item.  For example, the first time I did this was the Wahoo Fitness ANT+ enabled bike case, where I did a giveaway three weeks before the first units were available in the retail channel.  In the survey, you overwhelmingly wanted me to give these things away when possible.  By ‘overwhelming’ that would be 93.8% of you – or roughly twice the water temperature for the Boise 70.3 half-ironman I’m doing this weekend.

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You’ll be getting the above box – literally, that specific box sitting on my turtle tank stand– which contains the Polar RCX5, an s3+ stride/footpod sensor (for measuring distance), and the Polar Wearlink Hybrid heart rate strap.  That’s the fancy strap that works with both the RCX5 as well as legacy workout equipment that can read HR.  No turtles are included, nor is the G5 GPS pod, in this giveaway.

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All you’ve gotta do down below is tell me the answer to one of the following questions (not all of them):

Boxers or briefs
Hot dogs or hamburgers
Bow tie or straight tie
Coke or Pepsi
Mac or PC
Paper or Plastic
White Bread or wheat bread

Simple enough, right?

The entry period will run until Thursday June 9th, 2011 at 11:59PM Eastern Time, at which point I’ll close the entry period and randomly select a winner.  Like the all my giveaways there are no restrictions on where the goods go to – so no matter where in the world you are, I’ll send to you.  The winner will get a brand new Polar RCX5 Run Package (with HR strap and footpod).  It’ll be sent out Monday morning when I get back from Boise and you should have it a day or so later – or roughly ‘a long time’ ahead of everyone else waiting for their orders to get fulfilled.

(Note: If you’re active duty military and deployed and are unable to complete the entry method above, simply shoot me an e-mail and I’ll get ya entered in.  For those curious on how the giveaways work, here’s the deets. Thanks all!)

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  1. dupaks
    June 9, 2011 at 3:10 pm #1301

    coke and hot dogs

    Reply
  2. rw
    June 9, 2011 at 3:12 pm #1302

    Nothing like a hamburger on wheat bread with an ice cold Coca-Cola in my boxers whilst surfing on my Mac
    rw
    Vienna,Va

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  3. Rolling Thunder
    June 9, 2011 at 3:27 pm #1303

    coke, on my boxers, surfing on my mac!

    Reply
  4. Steve
    June 9, 2011 at 3:28 pm #1304

    Hamburger. Hot dog people are weird.

    Reply
  5. Garth
    June 9, 2011 at 3:35 pm #1305

    Briefs…although living in sunny SA, boardshorts are good!
    Cheers
    Garth

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  6. Garth
    June 9, 2011 at 3:37 pm #1306

    Coke in Africa

    Reply
  8. kumin
    June 9, 2011 at 3:52 pm #1308

    hamburger, coke and PC (sounds like an interesting movie title

    Reply
  9. Arno
    June 9, 2011 at 3:59 pm #1309

    boxerbriefs
    hamburgers
    Coke – or water
    Mac
    Paper- suppoer Canadian Pulp & Paper!
    No bread go gluten free

    I’ll wait to answer Garmin vs Polar

    Reply
  10. Austin
    June 9, 2011 at 4:02 pm #1310

    Mac! They’re so shiny…..

    Reply
  11. Ironmike
    June 9, 2011 at 4:06 pm #1311

    Mac, Pepsi, & hamburgers.

    Mike S.

    Reply
  12. dupaks
    June 9, 2011 at 4:10 pm #1312

    mac
    coke
    wheat bread

    Reply
  13. dupaks
    June 9, 2011 at 4:10 pm #1313

    hot mac and wheat dog

    Reply
  16. Jeff Eddy
    June 9, 2011 at 4:17 pm #1316

    white vs wheat – neither gluten free.

    Reply
  17. Nathaniel
    June 9, 2011 at 4:20 pm #1317

    Hot Dogs. All beef and kosher.

    Reply
  18. Jake
    June 9, 2011 at 4:27 pm #1318

    Real Coke! As in Coke made with sugar not high fructose corn syrup. Available in the US as “Mexican Coke”.

    Reply
  19. Leirbag Saijem
    June 9, 2011 at 4:43 pm #1319

    Mac, Coke, Brief, Hamburger

    Reply
  21. Rocketfast
    June 9, 2011 at 4:49 pm #1321

    Hot dogs – but not a “Weiner”.

    Reply
  22. cormicp
    June 9, 2011 at 4:49 pm #1322

    PC

    I have been told I am not cool enough to use a mac!

    Reply
  25. Rowan
    June 9, 2011 at 5:27 pm #1325

    MAC & Pepsi

    Rowan

    Reply
  27. Jason
    June 9, 2011 at 6:15 pm #1327

    I love 15-Grain wheat bread! :)

    -Jason

    Reply
  28. chrismorales
    June 9, 2011 at 6:17 pm #1328

    Boxers…gotta breath. Spend enough time in tight stuff.

    Reply
  29. Vladimir Aronsky
    June 9, 2011 at 6:29 pm #1329

    wheat bread!

    Reply
  30. Ihsan
    June 9, 2011 at 6:54 pm #1330

    Burgers every time.

    And good luck at Boise 70.3

    Ihsan

    Reply
  34. bret19
    June 9, 2011 at 7:18 pm #1334

    PC and hot dogs

    Reply
  35. Richard
    June 9, 2011 at 7:21 pm #1335

    I would chose a hamburger over a hotdog any day

    Reply
  36. Bart
    June 9, 2011 at 7:24 pm #1336

    before the edge 800 I hadand still have a Polar so for me it is Garmin AND Polar

    thanks for another great giveaway

    Reply
  37. dupaks
    June 9, 2011 at 7:52 pm #1337

    coke
    wheat bread
    mac

    Reply
  39. Joel
    June 9, 2011 at 8:14 pm #1339

    Hamburgers. With bacon of course.

    Reply
  41. Jim
    June 9, 2011 at 8:27 pm #1341

    PC. Straight Tie. Hamburger. Boxers.

    No longer drink soda, but when I did: Pepsi.

    Reply
  42. dupaks
    June 9, 2011 at 8:31 pm #1342

    coke
    mac
    paper – plastic sucks

    Reply
  44. Chris
    June 9, 2011 at 8:38 pm #1344

    Hot dogs
    straight tie
    Mac
    Paper
    wheat bread

    Reply
  45. Carlos
    June 9, 2011 at 8:38 pm #1345

    iOS, Mac OS, Coke…
    Thanks

    Reply
  47. janitzchaky
    June 9, 2011 at 8:51 pm #1347

    coke just taste better

    Reply
  48. janitzchaky
    June 9, 2011 at 8:53 pm #1348

    coke just taste better:)

    Reply
  51. Joe
    June 9, 2011 at 9:34 pm #1351

    burgers, definitely!

    Reply
  56. Michael
    June 9, 2011 at 9:37 pm #1356

    no tie (jeans and a sport coat)

    Reply
  57. Michael
    June 9, 2011 at 9:37 pm #1357

    no tie (jeans and a sport coat)

    Reply
  60. tunney
    June 9, 2011 at 9:55 pm #1360

    Boxers
    Hamburgers
    Straight tie
    Coke
    PC
    Plastic
    White bread
    Polar

    Reply
  61. MMB
    June 9, 2011 at 10:31 pm #1361

    monikiki

    Coke, Mac, Paper :)

    Reply
  62. John
    June 9, 2011 at 10:42 pm #1362

    Coke! Diet though. :)

    Reply
  63. Rocketdude
    June 9, 2011 at 10:46 pm #1363

    Boxer or Briefs — Boxers
    White Bread or wheat bread — wheat bread

    Reply
  64. Jesper
    June 9, 2011 at 10:49 pm #1364

    so far Garmin but willing to give polar a try. The new RCX5 looks sweet

    Reply
  65. awo
    June 9, 2011 at 10:50 pm #1365

    Wheat bread!

    Reply
  67. FredGagnon
    June 9, 2011 at 11:27 pm #1367

    Burgers all the way!!!

    Reply
  68. doubleA334
    June 9, 2011 at 11:30 pm #1368

    White or Wheat?? It’s all about the gluten-free break to this guy! Multi-grain, to be exact :)

    Reply
  69. Timothy
    June 9, 2011 at 11:59 pm #1369

    Coke and Hot Dogs, and the Polar RCX5!!!!

    Reply
  71. lisa
    June 10, 2011 at 1:00 am #1371

    Coke and wheat bread

    Reply
  72. Ben
    June 10, 2011 at 1:01 am #1372

    Neither boxers or briefs, but both: boxer briefs!

    Reply
  73. ChrisC
    June 10, 2011 at 1:02 am #1373

    Coke, wheatbread, briefs

    Reply
  76. Eric
    June 10, 2011 at 1:09 am #1376

    boxers….haha…i’m late, but better late than never!

    Reply
  77. Ben
    June 10, 2011 at 1:18 am #1377

    Briefs
    Hamburgers (making me hungry now)
    Straight tie
    Coke (Zero)
    PC
    Paper
    Wheat bread

    Reply
  78. Ian
    June 10, 2011 at 1:21 am #1378

    Hotdogs with liquid cheese, recently ate a hamburger which I bought ’cause I thought it was a doughut.
    Pepsi, though not Pepsi Dry (which is gross)
    Mac, though if you need windown; Mac running Windows!

    Reply
  80. Brent
    June 10, 2011 at 1:35 am #1380

    Coke, in boxers. Both straight out of the fridge, it’s hot.

    Reply
  81. trinick67
    June 10, 2011 at 1:36 am #1381

    Boxers
    hamburgers
    straight tie
    Coke
    Mac or PC (BOTH)
    Wheat

    Reply
  82. DaRoiT
    June 10, 2011 at 1:37 am #1382

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  83. Craig Adrien
    June 10, 2011 at 1:42 am #1383

    My kids have a stuffed animal they named Mac n’cheese pants. He wears boxers.

    Reply
  88. Jeb
    June 10, 2011 at 1:54 am #1388

    Wheat of course!!!

    Reply
  90. Nicholas
    June 10, 2011 at 2:11 am #1390

    Briefs for the win!

    Reply
  91. Choon Kiang
    June 10, 2011 at 2:12 am #1391

    Coke. Never like Pepsi.

    Choon Kiang

    Reply
  92. Silakka
    June 10, 2011 at 2:14 am #1392

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  93. Alexis
    June 10, 2011 at 2:15 am #1393

    Diet Coke!!!
    Hamburgers on Wheat Bun, with ketchup, mustard, pickles, onion and lettuce (making myself hungry just typing that out..)

    Reply
  95. David
    June 10, 2011 at 2:17 am #1395

    Mac all the way! iPhone 5 with iOS 5 is going to be Super Duper AWESOME!

    UNC.Tri.Guy

    Reply
  96. Thomas
    June 10, 2011 at 2:29 am #1396

    Could this be the last entry?

    Coke
    Wheat bread

    Reply
  97. curves
    June 10, 2011 at 2:34 am #1397

    briefs! Nothing to beat the ‘snug’ feeling.

    Reply
  98. OuterRim
    June 10, 2011 at 2:35 am #1398

    Mac, Burger, and Wheat bread as a good Frenchman.

    Reply
  99. eric apple
    June 10, 2011 at 2:35 am #1399

    Coke
    Hot dogs
    Pc
    More importantly POLAR!!

    Eric Apple

    Reply
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