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:
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.
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.
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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Coke.
I was converted from Pepsi by the wife.
Hot-diggity-dogs, of course!
One for me 2, or better this one will be for my wife who just started running early this year
Keep up good work !!!
Mac and Cheese Please.
Matt W.
Hamburgers definitely!!
Another vote for Mac. And wheat bread.
Paper
Mac!!!
mac.
good luck in boise.
Boxer-briefs: can’t beat a hybrid nowadays
Hot dogs: hebrew national, no if’s ands or butts
Bow tie: less messy when eating those hot dogs
Coke or Pepsi: Regular Coke but prefer Diet Pepsi; weird, right?
Mac or PC: My heart says mac but my wallet says PC
Paper or Plastic: reusable bags, duh; come on! think green!
White Bread or wheat bread: no joke, whole wheat potato bread has to be the greatest invention since……..well, sliced bread
Happy racing all and good luck at Boise Ray!
Mac, if only they would enter the bikecomputer market….an garmin edge with apple the look and feel…yes!
Most of the times I prefer wheat bread. And it’s not only the bread – I also prefer wheat noodles. They just taste better. :-)
Cheers and keep it up!
Mac or PC is a battle waged daily in my home. The wife is a graphic designer so our main desktop is a Mac. I am a PC. I get really frustrated by things that don’t work the same way as I expect on her Mac. For the things I do, there isn’t any difference in speed between – only steps required to complete the process. So I don’t quite understand the fandom associated w/ Mac.
I prefer to wrap a hamburger around a hotdog, or put the hotdog around the hamburger. I suppose if I have to just pick one I would say:
hotdog
Mac – doesn’t matter if I’m any better at anything but I sure am pretty to look at.
Wheat of course!
mac, coke & briefs
Wheat, always wheat bread. (oh yeah…pick me!)
Paper or Plastic? I try to do my part and bring a reusable bag. If not then paper. Thanks.
Boxer briefs for the win.
boxers on the boys!! ;)
Boxer briefs (on him, not me)
BRATS, or burgers
Diet pepsi
PC
Re-usable tote
Wheat wheat wheat
Coke and hopefully Polar
pc coke burger and polar
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paper or plastic?
i’d go for paper :)
Hamburger and wheat bread
PC,Coke
Gotta be a Hot Dog. Ketchup on one side, mustard on the other. Does that make me weird?
pc , coke
hamburgers
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Mac (and iPhone). And burgers.
hamurgers, coke, wheat bread, now I’m hungry :)
Hamburgers no doubt. Who knows what on Earth they mash together to make hot dogs!
WhEaT BrEaD!
Boxers or briefs: None when running, biking or swimming!
Hot dogs or hamburgers: Hamburgers!
Bow tie or straight tie: Each to his own!
Coke or Pepsi: Water please.
Mac or PC: Ohh.. Mac without competition. It just works!!
Paper or Plastic: Plastic
White Bread or wheat bread: Wheat!!
Boxers, Hotdog AND Hamburger, straight tie (unless I’m in a tux), Coke, Mac, paper, wheat, Garmin (though I’ve never owned a Polar device)
Wheat bread.
coke!
Hamburgers! (as if there’s any choice there!)
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i thought i commented :(
no boxers or briefs – free balling – or free vagin…whatever!
Wheat Bread
Boxers for sure.
Coke!
Coke!
boxers! boxers!
PC
Wheat bread
plastic(i reuse for different things)
or I bring my own bags
Mac for sure.
Wheat bread, all the way.
White IS wheat!
Wheat, of course…unless you are making a classic grilled cheese with Craft on White!
The only ones I feel strongly about are straight tie, white bread, and NEITHER to coke/pepsi. :)
Kelsey
kxt2316@yahoo.com
My vote goes to the PC :)
Wheat bread, wuncrodisithout a doubt.
Ricou
boxer briefs
hamburgers
only if I’m going to a funeral or wedding
pepsi
both
wheat
finally, currently Garmin, but I’d give the Polar a whirl too!
i like my iMac, iPhone and airport(s)
Can this Polar not be renamed to iPolar ;-)
Mac or PC – doesn’t really matter since either runs Linux just fine!
Burger of course, but only because I own a burger joint!!
boxerbriefs are the only way to go!
Paper or Plastic?
Neither, Bring your own Bags (BYOB)
I enjoy eating hamburgers on a wheat buns, washing them down with a cold coke while wearing boxer briefs and reading your blog on my mac.
Mac
Boxer Briefs, PC’s, Good Hot Dog’s and wheat bread.
Coke or Pepsi ?
Gatorade !!
Definitely straight tie. Coke over pepsi. Hamburgers in favor of hotdogs.
Coke! (except I don’t drink’em anymore!)
Reminds me of a super old SNL skit
link to snltranscripts.jt.org
Mac!!
Burgers, Mac, paper, wheat. Good luck this weekend!
Wheat bread!
Wheat bread all the way.
Pepsi please…
Hot dogs!
Boxers, Hamburgers and a Coke
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Breifs, gotta have that support! haha
Mac – will never go back!
Hot Dog briefs while I lounge around drinking a pepsi. PC & MAC… I go both ways.
What a fun set of questions…I’ll answer a few!
Boxers or briefs: I’m a girl, so panties of all varieties :P
Coke or Pepsi: DIET coke
Paper or Plastic: I’m a combo girl…Paper (or reusable bags) for the majority of things…unless it’s meat or cleaning supplies that could leak, then plastic
I’m a boxers and white bread kind of guy.
Donna said….
I’ll take a hot dog and a coke, right before I strap on my new PLASTIC Polar RCX5!
Pepsi !
That will be a Mac…for sure.
Although currently running on Ubuntu, drinking a cool glass of Coke.
Regards, RdL
I love apples (mac). Edible and otherwise.
paper is the way to go — i cringe at all the plastic bags i am offered at stores. i love paper as i can reuse and recycle them easily!
Boxer Briefs
RC Cola
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Mac is the best!
Hamburger!
I’m a Mac. I hope Polar plays better with Macs than Garmin. Although I do have to give them a tiny bit of credit, they are starting to get a little better.
Mac!
Diet Coke!
People still eat white bread?
Paper!
Caleb
White Bread or wheat bread – whole wheat baby, the only kind.
Read the instructions again…thanks! And rock it in Boise this weekend.
Mia
Mac for sure. I am really glad that the new RCX5 is mac compatible.
Coke, coke, coke!! And not that New Coke junk, either. :-)
Boxers. Hands down. No pun intended. :)
coke. pepsi is nasty!