Run to Win

The Winner of the 5^th “Run For Your Life” DVD

Last week, I reviewed the DVD of Run For Your Life, which follows the life of Fred Lebow as he brought about and grew the New York City Marathon.

Screen Media Films is provided me with 5 copies of the DVD to give away, which I did throughout the course of the past week.

This last contest was a little more difficult to win than any of the previous contests, since it involved doing a little research to answer a pair of questions. First, you had to tell me who ran the first sub-4 minute mile in Maine, and then what shoe company Jeff Caron ran for in Boston.

This became a little more difficult, though, because I actually asked a different question than I meant to for question 1.

Watch the video to see the answers, as well as the selection of the last DVD winner:


Watch “Run For Your Life” DVD Contest » Day 5

The contest was a lot of fun for me, I really enjoyed reading everybody’s comments and emails. I hope that you enjoyed this whole process as much as I did.

Was this worth doing? Should I run contests more often? I don’t know if I will let a week long contest take over my site like this one did, but should I try to give things away more often? Which parts of the contest did you like, and which did you not care for? Leave a comment below or send me an email and let me know.

Thanks for taking part!

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• The Winner of the 3^rd “Run For Your Life” DVD
• Want a free DVD of “Run For Your Life”? (Day 3)

7 Responses

1. crossn81 Says:
   November 1st, 2008 at 11:43 pm

   Thanks for running a great contest. Just thought I’d give you a note saying that I searched through Google for the answers to both questions and for both of them your site was ranked in the first few so that is where I got my answers! Good work on that and on a successful contest.

2. Anne Says:
   November 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 am

   Yes, this was a lot of fun for us too. Great way to give away something and get people involved. Liked the video of announcing each winner and explaining the quiz. It gave the contest some integrity and was a nice feature.

3. Isabelle Says:
   November 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm

   Thanks for the contest, Blaine, even if I was not one of the lucky ones…
   I personally enjoyed doing the quizz search. That was lots of fun and I learned a few things in the process.
   Thanks again!

4. pathfinder Says:
   November 3rd, 2008 at 10:16 am

   Blaine,
   I enjoyed your contest and am glad to see how many people participated.

5. pathfinder Says:
   November 3rd, 2008 at 10:23 am

   Side note: after watching your video….I think Jeff Caron has run about a 4:04 in Maine…not a 4:17 I will check that out…

6. kara Says:
   November 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm

   Yeah – a learning experience. Thanks

7. Jeff Caron Says:
   November 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am

   I know this is a late post (I’ve been traveling), but I just want to say that I am flattered that someone out there thinks I am a sub 4:00 Miler. To clear things up, my track PR for the Mile is officially 4:17 from 2008 as Blaine correctly announced. However, I have run a 4:12 on the UMaine Orono track in practice in 2006 which can be verified by Coach Mark Lech. Furthermore, as pathfinder pointed out, I did run 4:04 on the road in the same race that Pat Tarpy ran his 3:54. Lastly, I did run 3:50 in a downhill mile (Flash Mile, Winchester, MA) the week after running 4:04 at the New England Mile.

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