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! Is Pepsi still around just to fill in when no Coke is available and to remind everyone how nice Coke really is!?
Absolutly Mac. Which led my to Gramin, because Polar doesn’t supply Mac software (at least for the older models, like the 720i which used IRda). Not that Garmin Training Center is top off the bill, but at least I can simply plug in the usb and get my data.
Coke hands down
Pepsi Max
and
compression shorts
Mac or PC?
Mac of course! Can’t wait for OSX Lion!
MAC! Any day and twice on Sundays… since 1987.
MuddyTrails
COKE! As Pepsi is certainly not coke 🙂
Mac
Coke
Wheat
Lorenzo Batman
Wheat bread of course
Boxers
Hot dogs
straight tie
Coke
PC
Paper
wheat bread
^_^
boxers are way more comfortable imo
wheat bread!
Coke of course, more bite, less sugar
So difficult to choose, I’ll have to go Mac.
Wheat bread do they still even make white bread???
Coke
hmm, Garmin or Polar, I’ll let you know if I win 🙂
How about swimming, cycling or running?
Cycling
Coke!
Wheat Bread
PAIN BLANC c est normal pour un frenchies en plus c est de belles dates pour nous le mois de juin
c est le debarquement de Normandie par les boys americains
a bientot
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Got to be Mac
White Bread shaped in a Baguette of course. Oui Monsieur!
Boxers!
Mac!
Mac. expensive but simple.
I’m enjoying reading over your blog.
Definitley boxers and Coke 🙂
Great review btw
/Patrik
briefs
Hot dogs but also White Bread
Coke
PC sure!
Paper – think to Nature
Boxers, Coke and PC, as for Garmin vs Polar I would say both 🙂
Great review btw
/patrik
Hm,
As a Swede i prefer
briefs
Hot dogs
Bow tie
Pepsi
Mac
Paper
wheat bread
Hope that your gr8 prize can be delivered to Sweden Europe,
Cheers
Fredrik Bergstrom
Hm,
As a Swede i prefer
briefs
Hot dogs
Bow tie
Pepsi
Mac
Paper
wheat bread
Hope that your gr8 prize can be delivered to Sweden Europe,
Cheers
Fredrik Bergstrom
Bowtie!
(>o<)
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Boxers baby… my boys need to breathe !
Boxers or briefs?
Boxer briefs of course. Cause when you’re indecisive you can just ride the fence.
coke
and my answer is: wheat bread
mac – windows sucks
paper i hate plastic
mac since i can use the web interfac with the new garmin
boxers and straight tie
coke and coke and recoke
mac – no blue screen
polar or garmin? polar
wheat bread
Coke
coke and mac and polar
Please sir, may I have another Hot Dog?
Mac. Period. You got blog press way to go! If I win I will blog about it too!
coke
mac
wheat bread
mac
coke
boxers
hot dog
only wheat bread for me please and never soda of any kind, water is the beverage of choice here.
PC! 🙂
mac
coke
wheat bread
hot dog
coke and mac
mac
wheat bread
coke
hot dog
mac
coke
wheat bread
boxers
mac
coke
wheat bread
boxers
Mac or PC:
Mac…unless you’re my girlfriend and the first thing she said when she started up her MacBook Pro for the first time: “WHERE IS THE START MENU AND WHY CAN’T I RIGHT CLICK??”.
Don’t worry, I fixed it for her 🙂
Chris.
Boxers, coke, wheat bread!!
straight tie
Boxers.. definitely.
Pc,
Coke,
Hamburger
Hot Dogs… 🙂 with mustard and relish.
KP
PC
Polar…
Thanks Ray!
Mac (but work on PC) & no brief nor boxer: running short only ;o)
Keep goin’
Mac!
All the way…!
MAC
hamburgers, straight tie, Pepsi, PC, Paper, wheat bread. Ray, thanks for your time, info, and reviews!
D. Walker
Walked at pol.net
— Mac —
Thats why I need the RCX5 so badly – it’s compatible!
And also because living in South Africa the good stuff usually takes a while before it gets to us..
Boxers, gotta let them breath.
Dean-o
Wheat bread – thinking that it is healthier (mind trick)
Hot Dogs – easier to put down and more than one is always good (especially if chicago hot dogs)
pc
and neither for all the rest..
Coke, coke, always coke! There’s magic in that there brew…
Briefs, Hamburger, and a Coke
Coke, coke, always coke. There’s magic in that there brew…
wheat bread
Boxer Briefs: The comfort of boxers with the security of briefs.
The best of both worlds 😀
Diet Cherry Pepsi
Boxerbriefs
Hot dogs
PC
wheat bread
Coke, of course! 😛
Diet coke
PC (Apple free since my ipod 2 gen)
Great review
Hamburgers
Mac, because less time playing IT guy means more time for fun on the bike!
Boxers
Hamburgers
Straight tie
Coke
PC
Paper
Wheat bread
//Henrik_T
wheat bread
COKE!
Boxer briefs
Hot dogs or hamburgers (1 of each)
Straight tie
Pepsi
Mac
Plastic
White Bread
Boxers for the most part =)
Mac – Plain and Simple.
Oh, and Polar as well. Coming from an owner of a RS800CX, it’d be fun to test drive the new model.
I used to be PC, but now I’m mac. I have always been boxers, if I wear any at all. Pepsi is great solo or mixed, but Coke must be mixed if it’s store-bought – fountain coke is ok solo, though. I know, I’m weird.
I’ve always been Garmin, but if you send me that Polar, I’m sure I’ll change my mind quickly. 🙂
Pepsi!
wheat
Thanks for all your great and well written reviews
Billy1B
Boxers or Briefs (an option for none?)Hamburgers(dogs only@baseball games)
Straight tie (bow tie too old)
Coke Pepsi bad)
PC (Never have used a MAC)
Paper (Plastic bad)
White Bread (Wheat makes me feel like I am dieting!)
Mac, duh!
Pepsi 🙂
(Just come back from a business trip to the US, and the Coke over there tastes better than the UK, but still not as good as Pepsi… no HFCS in the UK!)
coke with a hamburger while surfing on my mac in my boxers.
Mac and Polar….