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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Hamburger – Simply the best! But very much preferably homemade :)
Paper/Plastic – NEITHER!! I carry in my own reusable bags!!!
Call me Mrs. Green…LOL!!
Straight tie!
None of the above:
1. Boxerbriefs (actually this one happens to be true).
2. Hot Dog/Hamburger. This one does not make sense. They are in completely different categories – neither being better than the other. It’s like saying Oranges vs. Dishwashers. I refuse to pick a side.
3. Ascots
4. RC (do they still sell this?)
5. Linux
6. Reusable cloth bags
7. Rye bread
Love the blog. Read it every day (almost).
Boxers, sometimes boxerbriefs, never briefs
Hot dogs & hamburgers
Straight tie
Coke Zero
Mac
Paper
Wheat
A time and a place for everything!
Hamburger!
Sweet, delicious Coke.
Hamburgers!!!
-Elaine
boxer briefs
best of both worlds!!
A time and a place for everything!
Definitely not Mac for me!
Hot dogs on wheat bread when you run out of buns and are too lazy to run to the store.
Both boxers and briefs, depending…
Pepsi!
Pepsi!
No meat
No softdrinks
No tie
Guess that brands me as Mac.
Boxers
Hot dogs and hamburgers
Straight tie
I don’t drink Soda
PC
Paper or Plastic? Neither I’m a zero waste shopper.
Wheat bread
PEpsi
Mac, Coke,Hamburger
Mac, burgers and briefs of course…
Hot dogs or hamburgers?
Hamburgers of course!
Thanks!!
Bow tie…you could choose either one of the other questions and either choice is respected as long as your rocking a bow tie consuming or using any of them.
Boxers
hamburgers
straight tie
Coke
PC
Paper
wheat bread
Good luck with your A Race!
PC duh!
Coke. No Ques.
Kris
Boxerbriefs all the way
Would like to say Mac, but… PC
Straight tie!
Diet Coke!
Definitely a PC!!
I eat my hot dog on wheat bread with my left hand. I am holding a delicious Coke wrapped with a paper napkin in my right hand. I do this while surfing your blog on my PC in only my briefs and a necktie.
Uh, PC of course
People still wear underwear? Well, I guess if I had to wear some, I’d go with boxers.
Mac or PC. No doubt PC.
White Bread or Wheat Bread – Wheat Bread please!
Coke — no contest!
Wheat is it. Not coke.
Mac, and Coke of coz! :)
Mac or PC? Definitely MAC
Mac or PC? Definitely Mac.
In the past I would have said coke, but my move to the north over 10 years ago has moved me over to the pepsi side.
Boxers, hamburgers, PC,Coke, and wheat bread. Great blog. I am also in DC, maybe we’ll meet eacother sometime during a training run/ride.
There are such things as PCs?
Mac…of course.
Mac, oh definitely Mac. Also… straight tie – bowties just look silly (although I wear neither, being of the XX variety)!!
Coke…always :)
Coke and Hot Dogs!
coke, coke zero specificially :)
My birthday is the 9th…..make it happen DC!!
Mmm … hamburgers
Mac is the future of PC`s if I can even say that!
And a tie will always be a classic except when worn with a tuxedo!
Best of Luck in Boise!
K.
Mac.
briefs
hamburgers
Bow tie
Coke
PC
Paper
wheat bread
Wheat bread
Mac
And maybe Polar for the next gadget…
Good luck for the Boise 1/2 Ironman!
Ben from Taipei
Boxers
Hamburgers
Paper
Mac
RCX5
See you in Boise at 70.3… Live here and have been swimming at Lucky Peak for a week. Feels great NOW. Not so much the first time.
coke for sure
coke and hot dog and paper
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coke and paper and hotdogs and boxers
Wheat bread.
Mac
boxers and hamburgers
straight tie
plastic sucks – paper
coke
boxers
mac, paper and hotdogs
straight tie
wheat bread!
briefs… gotta be briefs… nothing else.. well… the guys know what I mean…
coke, coke and coke
no plastic and no pepsi
paper i hate plastic
coke i hate pepsi
Boxers
Wheat Bread….oh yeah and Good Luck in Boise!
boxers and hot dogs
paper, plastic sucks
mac – windows sucks
paper, coke, hot dogs, straight tie mac
Boxers or briefs–boxer for my man!
Hot dogs or hamburgers–burgers
Bow tie or straight tie–straight
Coke or Pepsi–Coke!
Mac or PC–PC
Paper or Plastic–paper, save the earth!
White Bread or wheat bread–I prefer white, but wheat is healthier so we eat that.
coke
coke and polar rcx5
garmin or polar? – polar
paper
mac, mac and re-mac
mac book pro
breizh cola
Mac.
Used PCs until bought macbook almost by accident and now i love it. I guess i would love pc too, but macbook air is sweet.
only minus is that polar rs 400 ir stick doesnt work with it (or protrainer 5) so have to use wifes laptop for that.
paper is better for the planet
paper and coke and straight tie
boxers
paper, coke and dcrainmaker!
polar
paper, coke and mac
hamburgers at this time of the day
coke coke and re coke
and the winner is : paper
fuck plastic: paper
polar rcx5