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!)
FOUND THIS POST USEFUL? SUPPORT THE SITE!
Hopefully, you found this post useful. The website is really a labor of love, so please consider becoming a DC RAINMAKER Supporter. This gets you an ad-free experience, and access to our (mostly) bi-monthly behind-the-scenes video series of “Shed Talkin’”.
Support DCRainMaker - Shop on Amazon
Otherwise, perhaps consider using the below link if shopping on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but your purchases help support this website a lot. It could simply be buying toilet paper, or this pizza oven we use and love.
Coke!
Paper, Hot Dogs!
Boxers or briefs=Briefs all day
Hot dogs or hamburgers= Hot dog pluezze
Bow tie or straight tie= Im straight tyvm
Coke or Pepsi= ouch depends;)
Mac or PC= PC Deffo
Paper or Plastic= paper
White Bread or wheat bread= Wheat for me…
Love ur blog and the INSANE give aways u have… keep up the good work
Macs and Pepsi!
Mac or PC ?
Linux in any of its easy colors: debian, ubuntu, mandriva…
It gives me some issues with tech stuff like garmin or polar, so I own a Mac and pc as well. And yes, I would pay for Sport Tracks under Linux…
Thanks for your nice blog.
bow tie, no doubt
briefs
hamburgers
straight tie
Coke
Mac
Paper
wheat bread
briefs
hamburgers
straight tie
Coke
Mac
Paper
wheat bread
Thanks Ray!
– Sebastian
Amir
burgers under armor boxers and cold beer
I don’t know so much about Polar, but very interested.
Boxer briefs
straight tie
Pepsi
wheat bread
Hamburger please! 🙂
Macs, Boxers, and wheat!
Coke (but for diet, Pepsi)
As always, thx for sharing the tech goodies w/ us!
Hot dogs and pc
Martin Sanderhoff, Denmark
Mac and Pepsi
Mac or PC: PC @ work, Mac @ home
Boxers!
Pepsi – specifically Pepsi Max!!
Wheat bread, naturally!
No coke. Pepsi
Boxers…..
This comment has been removed by the author.
Small, tight and stream lined briefs, much like the RCX5
No substitute for a good bow tie. In fact, might even negate the choosing between another of the conundrum. (Kidding!)
Polar forever!
Ok, I better try this again because for some reason it doesn’t look like my post made it in. So, boxerbriefs. As for Polar v. Garmin, whatever you want to give me Ray, that’s what I’ll use 🙂
Boxers
hamburgers
straight tie
Coke
PC
Paper
White Bread
WHEAT!!!
My mom use to say all the time “The whiter the bread, the quicker your dead”
Hello, The most important in this life is : waking up, breathing, wearing my shoes and running, running and running. Swiss water is so good, coca is not necessary!
Best regards,
Denis la Malice
Hello, The most important in this life is : waking up, breathing, wearing my shoes and running, running and running. Swiss water is so good, coca is not necessary!
Best regards,
Denis la Malice
Like this comment, “brief”
Mac or PC? – Mac running Virtual PC!
boxers or briefs…. Thong. 🙂
Coke or Pepsi – I pick Coke everytime, of course 🙂
One of everything (briefs excluded)
Coke and PC. The only ones that I have an opinion about.
Boxers
Hamburgers
No tie
Coke
PC
Paper
Wheat bread
Will this count as 7 entries? :oP
Mac — so I sure hope that new Polar unit will work with it. 🙂
It’ll be Pepsi – sure hoping this will give me an opportunity to try Polar once again since my loved xTrainer got smashed.
Mac. Always and forever.
mac
Coke. Never understood why most restaurants can’t give you the choice between Pepsi and Coke. They have tons of wines. Why not offer both cola brands? They do taste different. And Coke wins 🙂
And Mac of course.
I need to replace my old S625, and RCX5 is the best option! and Mac of course….
This comment has been removed by the author.
Briefs, hamburgers, straight tie, Coke, PC, Paper and wheat bread! Wow those are some interesting questions 🙂 Oh please please please, let me win the Polar!!! 🙂
Mac of course.
Boxers
hamburgers
straight tie
Soda, neither Coke or Pepsi
Mac or PC? Definitely both!
Plastic
White Bread or wheat bread? BAHHH!-> Carbohydrates are bad! Go Paleo 😉
and here is a bonus! Cats, no dogs! 😉
Hot dogs or hamburgers
Hamburgers for me, with coke.
Boxers
Hamburger – In n Out!!!
Coke
Mac
strait tie
Paper bags
WheatBread
wheat bread of course
mac because I have to fix them less.
Definitely a Mac is great and compatible with the RCX5!
davidemariani777@gmail.com
boxers.
PS
your reviews are awesome. keep em up.
No underwear, Ray… None.
gah im a noob. disregard the anonymous post above.
boxers.
PS
your reviews are awesome. keep em up.
Coke or Pepsi?
What about Red Bull Cola -> far better!
PC of corse
Hamburger or HotDog? I love both
Boxers
hamburgers
Bow tie
Coke
Mac
Paper
Wheat bread
Boxers while using my PC
Boxer briefs actually
Burgers…juciness is awesomeness!
No tie…damn the Man!
Coke
Mac
Bring my own bag
Sweet Wheat
Hamburger
Boxers for me, briefs for her (and what are ‘boxer briefs’?)
wheat bread most definitely, thx for asking 😀
running in only my Boxers
by the hamburgers shop
I spied a manager in a straight tie
drinking a Pepsi
I immediately went home to join this contest on my Mac eating a sandwich on
wheat bread
Mac! Coke! (I am a less opinionated on the other matters)
Mac 100%
mac
paper
mac osx lion
wheat bread
boxers
coke and if there is no coke gatorade
mac book pro
straight tie
coke and polar rcx5
well…i must say paper – plastic sucks
mac and coke
coke and mac
hot dog
straight tie and boxers
coke
wheat bread
dcrainmaker
windsurf
polar
hot dogs
wheat bread
hot dogs in the morning
hamburgers in the afternoon
boxers
coke and orange juice
hum….
wheat bread with jam
coke – pepsi sucks
wheat bread with paté
mac
hot dogs
mac
coke
hot dog
mac and cokee
Mac simple enough. Not because i believe in the “security” of Mac OS X over Windows…but because the Mac platform is more stable. Windows 7 over a PC…crash or hang. Windows 7 on a Mac…pure bliss!
coke coke and re-coke
wheat bread
mac
mac and hot dogs
mac and polar!!
coke and polar!!