Posts Tagged with: "Contest"

5/5 is the 2nd anniversary of TBR Blog. It’s also my birthday then. Since I expect the hubby to give me my own running gifts (notice the S after “gift”), I thought it would be a good idea for me to give you guys and girls gifts instead.

This is the official launch of the 5 DAYS TO 5/5 CONTEST. EVERYDAY for the next 5 days until May 5, 2009, I shall be giving away prizes on this blog. 

This is about the only information I can give right now (and may I warn you it’s very vague):

• Contest details will vary from day to day depending on my mood.
• Prizes will vary as well depending on our good sponsors’ generosity (hint hint) and will be announced in the specific post.
• Contest period for each post will change too (sometimes it will close in 1 hour and other times in 1 day), but I’ll be a little more lenient for the next 3 days as many of you are out of town for the long weekend.  
• I’ll tell you now though. Winners can win as many prizes as they want. So, let’s say you win on Day 1, you can win again on Days 2, 3, 4 and 5. By May 5, you could accumulate enough prizes to retire from your day job and just focus on running! (Lest I raise your expectations for the prizes, let me tell you now, I’m just kidding.)

This is my way of thanking you for listening to my daily rants and raves about running for the past two years. I started running (and this blog) knowing absolutely no other runner except for a triathlete dad at my son’s school. (Hi Jamike!) Since then, I have watched the running community grow by leaps and bounds and felt blessed to be a part of it. I’ve met so many runners—some of whom have grown to be dear friends—who have touched my life in one way or another. It’s been an amazing ride that I hope to continue until I can no longer run (that day would probably be on 5/5/2079)

May the best runners win!  

For sponsors who wish to donate prizes for TBR readers, please email thebullrunner@gmail.com.

The winner of TBR’s Guess the Cover contest, Joms Paras of Happy Feet, claimed his prize from me last night at Bonifacio High Street.  I presented to him his new Nike Zoom Structure Triax+ (woohoo, what a beauty) which came fresh out of the box when I picked it up at the Nike head office plus Paul Calvin’s deli gift certificates worth P500.  Congratulations again, Joms!

Don’t you just love these contests?  It’s time for another one next week.  Stay tuned.

Thank you very much to Tony Atayde of Nike Philippines and Jay Em of Paul Calvin’s Deli.

We’ve got a winner for our Guess The Cover Runner contest!  The winner will get 1 pair of Nike Running shoes plus 1 Gift Certificate from Paul Calvin’s Deli worth P500.  The name was drawn by Little Bull Runner himself at 4:00 p.m.  

And the winner is (drumroll please)…JOMS!

Joms posted SEN. PIA CAYETANO as his entry and he was right.  For those of you who didn’t get a copy yesterday, here’s the cover:

It was fun reading all 128 submissions. Here’s the summary:

Jaymie Pizarro/ TBR, 76
Sen. Pia Cayetano, 20
Leica Carpo, 5
Tweetie de Leon, 5
Joy Rojas, 3
Iza Calzado, 3
Tessa Prieto, 3
Annie Agoncillo, 2
Patrick Concepcion, 2
Amanda Carpo, 1
Francesca Carpo, 1
Annie de Leon, 1
Elma Muros, 1
Lydia De Vega, 1
Nina Huang, 1
Tiffin Parco, 1
Marga Deona, 1
Bald Runner, 1
TOTAL: 128

Thank you to all of you who participated in the contest! There’s still one more chance of winning a pair of Nike Running Shoes. Check out the first page of TBR Magazine.

TBR Magazine is now available at ROX, Bonifacio High Street.  By next week at Second Wind Running Store in QC.  I’ll keep you posted.

Note: Joms is a personal friend, but he was not in any way tipped in advance of the cover runner. (We runners are an honorable and respectable lot, aren’t we?)

Let the games begin!

Guess who the cover runner is on the maiden issue of TBR Magazine (see the runner’s silhouette above) and you get the chance to win 1 pair of Nike running shoes and a P500 Gift Certificate from Paul Calvin’s Deli!

Before submitting your guess, please read CONTEST RULES here.

Good luck!

NOTE: Comments below will NOT be published online until after the launch of TBR Magazine at Condura Run on March 22, 2009.

CONTEST: “Guess the Cover Runner” on TBR Magazine’s Maiden issue

CONTEST PERIOD: March 18, Wednesday (TOMORROW) to March 21, Saturday, 11:59 PM (EVE OF CONDURA)

PRIZE: One (1) lucky winner will receive:

• 1 pair of Nike running shoes (Sorry, I don’t know the model yet)
• 1 Paul Calvin’s deli gift certificate worth P500

CONEST RULES:

1. Contestant shall provide ONE name on the comment box of TOMORROW’s post on GUESS THE COVER RUNNER.  Please refrain from asking questions or discussing your training program in that post.  Just the name of the person who you think is on the cover will suffice.
2. Only one entry per contestant is allowed.  Should two entries be submitted, the contestant will be automatically disqualified unless the contestant provides a good excuse for posting two entries (i.e., “I accidentally hit the submit button twice on the laptop as I was running fartleks while typing”)
3. TBR will NOT publish comments on that particular post until after the end of the contest period, March 21.
4. All correct entries will be collected and only 1 winner will be chosen through raffle.
5. The name of the winner with the correct entry will be drawn under the supervision of TBR Representative, namely The Little Bull Runners.
6. Should no one guess the cover runner correctly (aw, cmon!), there will be a raffle among all submitted entries.
7. The winner will be announced on March 23, Monday and will be informed on how to claim the prize.
8. TBR’s relatives who were informed of the publication or friends who contributed to TBR magazine or relatives/friends/colleagues of the cover runner are disqualified from joining the contest.  You guys will have to make do with a simple “Thank you!” from me! 
9. I repeat, the contest starts TOMORROW.  Do not submit your entries in this post.

Did I miss anything in my rules?  Feel free to ask questions here before we start the contest tomorrow.  May the smart (and lucky) runner win!