If you've been a follower of this blog for about a year, a) thank you, and b) you've seen this before.
It's that time of year again, my great sponsors over at Princeton Tec have very graciously donated an Apex lighting system for me to draw for right here on my blog!!
Like last year all you have to do to enter is to simply leave a comment on this specific posting. You don't need to say anything other than to leave your name. If you'd like to say more and find yourself short for words you can just copy and post this and I'll be fine with it: "Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies."
Last year we had a whooping 55 individual entries! I guess this is also my way of finding out if I've managed to grow this blog or slowly kill it along the way??
I've been using this exact light for three full seasons now and have had nothing but success with it. Here's a link to the specific specs, 130 Lumens goes a LONG ways, quite literally, towards successful nighttime running!
In case you didn't partake last year, here's the video that details my impartial selection process...oh yeah, and I take care of the shipping, so this is of ZERO cost to you. I promise I won't have you fill out a survey, register an account somewhere, or get tricked into having my babies!
GR
101 comments:
It is nice to that your sponsors do this for you. Also glad you like Once a runner. If you can find one try Pain by Dan Middelman. It is like Once a runner. Dan made the 1996 USA 10k team.
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies.
Aside from that your blog is one of the best I follow. Keep up the good work.
Love that sponsors will give you gear to give away. Congrats on an amazing CR @ H.U.R.T!
Gary, I love you dearly and would love to have that light.
Keep up the great work!
Dear Gary, It has been a blast following your adventures thus far, looking forward to many more. Your blog is one of the best and I love reading your tweets on twitter.
ALWAYS enjoy following the blog, GR - keep the hammer down!
pick me, roxy!
"Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your ... headlamp."
Cheers to 2010 and hope to see you out at MOMAR Squamish!
Sarah
www.elmhealth.blogspot.com
I do not want to have your babies (even if I was not a male), but do love your site!
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies.
Hilarious selection process. We can use that to name our babies. Hah!
Love the blog, keep it up! I'll take the headlamp now :-)
Very cool!
Perry Ligon
hey gary! it's brendan -- i'm most certainly a reader of your blog. keep it up man -- see you on the trails
Dear Gary,
I love you dearly ; will you have my babies?
:->
As I remember, you sold me that exact lighting system and I can attest to its utility. It's also so bright that it's very good at scaring small children and animals away.
I think this American needs a gift after the lost I suffered in the final game of the olympics. It broke my heart. and now that I have to wear a canadian hockey jersey to the knee knacker. ahh.
not to mention i left my head lamp at mountain masochist. :)
congrats on HURT again.
my only sponsor for now is my room mates aka my parents
Sean cien fuegos Blanton
Oh Gary, right now I love you for having this contest! I'm breaking into trail and ultra running this year and have been eyeing up headlamps. I'm in desperate need...have a heart!
Hi Gary! Love your blog, and your sponsors generosity.
Jen
I shall give it a try at lucky number 19!
"Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to find you someone to have your babies."
;)
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies.
Good doggie, pick 22, good doggie.
I would love a new headlamp however having your babies is not an option, seriously.
My Roxy (black lab) loves your roxy and wants to have her babies. Colorado loves the site. (and we really really could use that lamp)
Please light up my life Gary.
Trevor R.
Pick me, pick me!
Sweeet headlamp - sign me up!
Dearest Gary.
I do get the hand me down yes? See I am so "easy"!
Gab
Dearest Gary
Never mind the new one I never win anything! But I do get the hand me down yes? (Because I KNOW you got a new one!) LOL
Gab
Dearest Gary,♫♫♫
Never mind the new one I never win anything! But I do get the hand me down yes? (Because I KNOW you have a new one! LOL)
Gab
Okay so appareantly I am not only slow but also stupid! I had to post three different comments and none of them showed up, then all at once! As you can tell they progressively got sweeter! that should get me somewhere!
Gab
it's so dark on the streets of whistler at night for a little girl like me. I had a light but the man feels it is his now. All I have to fight off the monsters of the darkness is the faint glow of my cell phone... help me see again. adriana.
This is my lucky year. I can feel it. Thanks Gary.
I want to be the lucky winner
Gary,
Something tells me that Rocky and Dad are going to be working hard for this one!!! I was really impressed by that headlamp at HURT... Nice and bright!
All Day!
~Ken
Gary, I really would like to win the headlight,night running is such a blast!
Cap Canyon run is coming up and my Pitzl is the pitzz.
Hahahaha!
The selection video made my day! I have an 11 year old pug who would've gone absolutely nuts with 50 treats laid out on the floor like that. Even with a blindfold, he would've snagged at least a dozen of 'em! By the way, I've NEVER won anything in any contest I've entered. Make me a believer, Gary! :)
Dear Gary, I will let you and Nathan have a date to yourself if you give me the headlamp :)
Oh and I need a new headlamp
You light up so many lives...
I love contests... pick me, pick me!!!
Oh Canada...
Pick me :)
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your headlamp.
In the words of Arnie in his roll as the Running man, How'bout a light?
Such a good movie. I would gladly watch it with you, but I will NOT have your babies.
hook me up with that lamp my good man! no baby having but i will hook you up at aid station 3 at chuckanut. werd. hey roxie - pick me dude! and THANK YOU GR
cheers
Dear Gary,
I wish your headlamp would have babies.
I loved your selection process last year, and the icing on the cake was the blindfold, very funny!
I enjoy your blog and would love the headlamp, but even if I don't get it I will still enjoy your blog.
Peace.
Hello Gary - Sorry to break this to you in this fashion, but I AM your baby! Can I call you dad? Or do you prefer daddy?! Great blog Gary, lot's of fun! (I mean dad, nice blog)
great contest
dennis
UltraFlynn wants to have your babies, but I'm not asking for that permanent of a commitment. Just want the headlamp!
I'm broke, my current light is fubar and I'm scared of the dark since during my last ultra Frank from Johnnie Darko appeared at 03:00...he only smiled and waved but still...
Gary, Great job at HURT this year. Keep the blog crankin so we can see how you are coming along towards Miwok and WS!
Justin
Wa-pa-cha-ka! I will take a new head lamp please. Thank you!
Love the selection process! Would also love a headlamp. Don't need any more babies - thanks, though!
It can get mighty dark down in the Skagit Valley when the late July sun goes down... would ya help a brother find his way to Lightning Lake?
I need a new APEX...PICK ME!!!
Yep - too lazy to set up an account so I won't win, but I giggled my a$$ off watching you blindfold your puppy to make the selection. I might want your babies :)
I'm also scared of the dark so probably should get one of those lamps so I can stop running ultras with 3 headlamps!
love contests on blogs!
Dear Gary, I love you dearly but I already have my own my own baby.
I would love you even more if you gave me your head lamp :-)
My fingers and toes crossed on this one. Every week I train with the Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club with my old headlamp which pivots up and down pointing down when I want it pointing forward, making annoying crich crich sounds, and giving me the brightness that I need to see the control points far and wide. Oh to see well! oh to have a bright light! oh to have it shine far and wide!!
sweet headlamp
Keep kickin ass dude
I'm still here, reading your entertaining and motivational words. Keep up the good work (writing and running)!
Okay, I'm in but I have some concerns.
First you claim there is no survey, but clearly at the bottom of the post there it is, "Like it, Love it, Lame". I'm just saying it looks like a survey to me.
Second, I'm a dude so it's biologically impossible for me to have your babies, plus I don't roll that way... The point being this contest is not gender neutral and maybe should have a disclaimer like "Only for those whose can bear the gift of life".
Finally, while cute, your selection process is highly prejudicial. Dogs have 220 olfactory receptors in the nose and can smell 1000 times better than humans, this is how they can find Deer poop on any trail.
Seriously though (because this is a serious post... really). Roxy needs to be placed in a neutral position an equal distance from cookies the exact same age and size for this to truly be fair, otherwise I will find it difficult to accept my prize... I will though because I'm a true sportsman...
I mean person... and I wouldn't want to offend you or Princeton Tec by turning it down.
Most kidding aside, you have a great blog. Well written and always a gas, but I do miss "Funny Fridays though". Now where do I register for my "Sham WoW" and "Slap Chop"!
Well you easily surpassed last year's 55 comments. This is good for you (and Princeton Tec), but bad for me as my odds go down. I've got to find a way to bribe Roxy.
#66...Thanks for your site and unique perspectives on running.
You run so fast you probably dont need a light...I run so slow I need 3 or 4.
There's a renowned sexy trail on the Shore,
Named Ms. Bayden Powell with whom this trailrunner must score.
Her hills make my knees go weak,
And virgin forest covers her peak.
Under headlamp at night she'll cry "More!"
As my wise wife pointed out dogs have 220 MILLION olfactory receptors not 220... forget all the gender neutral stuff, girls are smarter!
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies.
Dear Roxy, Come on girl..sniff me out!! I may not ride backwards on a horse or have those tickets for that thing you love, but I do wear Old Spice. Find my lucky number!!
Free stuff!?! I'm in. Your going to have to come over and give it to me though. cost of shipping is close to the cost of a ferry.
-Dean
Pick me for the headlamp so I can see what I'm doing if I weasel a chick into bed with me....
Yes please
I'd love a headlight - sign me up!
I promise to love you, but you'll have to find someone else to make those babies. They can use my headlamp to help mine to pull it out though!
Love the posts!!
Adam
Hey Gary,
Longtime reader first time poster of the blog. Keep up the activity and blogging it is inspiring to the less motivated.
Jeff B
I am just getting into some trail running & racing! I have done one 25K & loved it! Lost 40+ pounds since September & am digging what I am doing! Would love to try the trails in the dark! Thanks for the opportunity in giving away something yo could probably keep!
"Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies."
Now that the weather is getting better we should go and shoot those photos we talked about. Looks like you upped the number of followers. Roxy will have her work cut out for her.
Maybe I'll win this time!!!!!!!
Hi Gary and that so cute Roxy dog!
Would love the headlamp...
lots of commenters, dang. well here's to winning a headlight!
Met at TRR last year. Really enjoy following your blog.
Nice write up on your "HURT" experience. I'm heading out to Hawaii in July and plan on running a lap of the course.
D. Ford
Team XXL
Hi Gary,
Love the blog, the dog & would love to win the light.
Cheers! Jill
Hey Gary - If I had that headlamp maybe I wouldn't have missed the turn to Howard creek at Coyote Two Moon and I would have finished the 100 K instead of running 56 miles in the snow and rain.. then again I would have had to stay out in the snow even longer - so maybe I don't want to win your headlamp!!
Gary, I don't want ANY babies!
Gotta run,
Vince
PICK ME! HA!
Since I can't seem to finish a 100 miler what do I need a headlamp for? Guess I could always give it to a friend...
"Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your ... headlamp."
Heres my simple entry to win a headlamp for my hubby.
Gary, I presume this light is the same one that you used at HURT, where it was easy to tell that it was you approaching the aid stations, by the oh-so-brilliant headlamp flashing through the trees!
You put out a great blog, as bright as the headlamp - see you at Diez!
I may need a headlamp for "fat dog" so add me to the list please!!!!
Rob S
count me in! You've got a lot more than 55 this time around!
Pick me, I'm from the east coast!!
yes please.
-bobby gill
Dear Gary, I love you dearly and would like to have your babies...
Is that even allowed? I think someone told me we were related!
Come on Roxy...pick me! I'm the guy that left a bunch of food laying around for you to eat!
See you in a month!
Thanks for the kick-ass aid station yesterday, Roxy! Now pick me, girl!
Give me this headlamp, a tire lever, a cheesecake and seven litres of lube and I'll be all set for a night with Rune's Mom!
-Colin Matthews
Hey guys thanks for all the comments! Even my Father mentioned how funny so many of them were.
Contest is officially closed as Roxy and I are currently trying to determine the winner...best of luck!!
GR
gimme gimme!!!
you give good hugs!!
haha
jamie.
Roxy might get fat this year...
ooh ooh pick me pick me!
It's dark here - need a head lamp
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