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Prize Announcement

November 21, 2008 planet3rry 2 comments

The Prize for the Guess My Times, Win Crap Harpeth Hills Edition has been announced

PRIZ3S a division of Planet3rry.com

announced today, right here, that the person with the closest finishing time guess for the Harpeth Hills Marathon will win this fabulous prize:

D'OH

MMMMMMmmmmm CHIA....

unused HOMER J. SIMPSON Chia Pet

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Watch it Grow!
Handmade Decorative Planter

Easy to do. . . fun to grow! Full coat 1-2 weeks.

Contains:

  • Handmade pottery planter
  • Chia seed packet for 3 plantings
  • Convenient plastic drip tray
  • Planting and care instructions sheet

Reuse your Chia Indefinitely. Simply replant with chia (extra seeds included) or similar herb seeds, such as basil, alfalfa, marjoram or thyme.
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And even if you have the Green Thumb of DEATH, you can’t mess up the Chia.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL

In addition to Homer, PRIZ3S is also pleased to announce that Homer’s Beverage of Choice will also be included. Due to fact that shipping alcohol beverage over state lines is “technically” illegal, much less the duty (hee hee, I wrote ‘duty’) tax on said prize would be cost-ineffective, a Beverage that Homer would HATE, although Lisa might find it enjoyable, A box of Snapple Orange-inality Herbal Tea will be included.

SO IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO ENTER (or Modify) YOUR GUESS FOR TERRY’S FINISHING TIME AT THE HARPETH HILLS KILLER DEATH FLYING MONKEY MARATHON

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Rutledge Marathon Final Results

November 19, 2008 planet3rry 5 comments

I Finally found the Official Results for the Marathon. You would have thought there was a link on the Home Page of the Marathon Website that would link to the result… yeah, me too!

Well, after waiting until TUESDAY! I went to the KTC Message Board to see if there were others who were curious when the Results would be posted. And sure enough, someone posted the results…

[Start Fanfare]

So here are the Official Results

I finished the 2008 (inaugural) Rutledge Marathon in the time of

4:50:52

I was the 40th Finisher out of 52 and I was the 6th (and last) Male in the 35-39 Age Division.

[okay, you can end the fanfare now...]

Now something happened that I was NOT expecting… there was a TIE in the winners for the Rutledge Guess! That’s Right… Two people thought I would be a slow MoFo and they conspired to the same time. Actually, I will assume that they were thinking I would take it conservatively for the first marathon and run a delightful time of 4:32. Little did they know that there would be a crazy-ass wind that would try to suck the spirit out of the runners and would make me EVEN slower!

I could have taken the first person’s entry, but I don’t want to clog the bandwidth of the internet with all 100 hits (on average per day) coming at one time when they see that I have a new contest. No, I would prefer something less humane such a Battle Royale, but local ordinances prohibit fun stuff like that… blah blah blah.

So, IF I finished in 4:50:52, that equates to 292.9285714 minutes and half of that (rounded to the nearest 1/100th) is 146.46. Taking 10% of that and turning it into currency makes it:

$14.64

Wait! I am not finished…

(reading)
“And one jamir to honor the Hebrew
God whose Ark this is.”

oh wait, that’s supposed to go into my “At Church, Indiana Jones was Referenced and The Elder told everyone ‘That’s Daddy’s Favorite’” Post.

But wait… $14.64 split in two for the two wieners winners and that is $7.32 each.

$7.32!

That’s enough to…. uh… that’s enough to… yeah.

“Holy Lotto Pickers Batman, you haven’t told us WHO the wieners winners are!”

In NO particular Order (although the one that could conceive children was first), The Winners of the 2008 Rutledge Guess My Time, Win Crap $7.32 in Gift Cards are:

I AM a Running Adventurer, MARATHON CHRIS
(who just ran the INAUGURAL San Antonio Marathon)

and

(My Other Running Brother) Darrell

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There is still time to either submit a Guess for the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon or submit a new guess, if you have already done so. Just Click on the “CONTESTS” link at the top of the page (fancy, eh) or click HERE.

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Cameo Appearences:

The Half Marathoners that I ran with during the 1st Loop, who where wanting a 2:10 or better finishing time were Rachel Fisher and Megan Vanderhoofen. Rebekah did finished in a BAA style 2:10 time being that her official time was 2:10 and change. Megan came in 2:11 and change.

“You didn’t come all this way, just to run a 2:11″ – Terry speaking to Rachel and Megan in the last mile of the first loop of the Rutledge Marathon

The Marathoner that I ran with was none other than “I placed 2nd in my Age Group for this marathon” Karen Lewis who was just Olympic timing- a couple HUNDRETHS of a second behind me.

Support Crew Susan has posted some of the pictures on her Shutterfly site. I am going to get some of her pictures and combine them with the pictures that My Lovely and Talented Wife took and post a Picture Post of the Rutledge Marathon.

I also got word from the Almighty KTC Message Board that some other pictures will go up on Flickr from some guy who says he was the Official Photographer.

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Guess My Times, Win Crap

November 11, 2008 planet3rry No comments

t’s that time again! It’s time to Guess My Time and WIN CRAP Special Marathon edition! There are more ways to win and there is going to be a Grand Piece of Crap Prize for an Overall Guess of my time.

Instead of submitting your time as a comment, you’ll need to use the forms that are in the shaded box for that particular contest. I’ll receive an email for that race

Rutledge Marathon Contest

Using the Rutledge Marathon Form, submit your guess of my official finishing time. Time Guesses will be accepted up until 10am on Saturday November 15th (Day of Race of the Rutledge Marathon)

Prize:

GIFT CARDS THAT EQUAL HALF OF MY FINISHING TIME IN MINUTES MULTIPLIED BY 0.1. E.g. if I finishing in 3:59:29, that would be (3*60)+(59)+(29/60)=239.5, then 239.5/2 = 119.75*0.1 = 11.975 or $11.98

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Overall Time Contest

Using the Overall Time Form, submit your guess of my combined time of Rutledge AND Harpeth Hills. Your deadline to do participate is 10am on Saturday November 15th (Day of Race of the Rutledge Marathon).

example:

If you thought that I would complete Rutledge Marathon in 3 hours and the Harpeth Hills Marathon in 6 hours 45 minutes, you would enter 9 hours 45 minutes. I apologize for making you do math, it’s just part of the game.

Grand Prize:

WIN THIS!GPX Docking Station

PLUS: An ASD Athletes Technical Shirt (provided that I have your desired size)

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Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon Contest

Using the Flying Monkey Form, submit your guess of my official finishing time. Your deadline to do participate is 10am on Sunday November 23rd (Day of Race of the Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon).

Prize:

YET TO BE DETERMINED

So as you can see, the organizers of this contest have spared no expense on providing great gifts for you to win!

Winners will be announced as soon as either:

1) I have the official results AND have a chance to get to the computer (provided that I am conscious)

2) My next of Kin can get to the computer

Typically for these contests, I try to give you some information that will help you “Guess” what my time will be. However, I have never run marathons within 8 days of each other, so I don’t have anything to really give you. But I will supply my past marathon times to help.

Historical Times

Race Date Finishing Time My Comments
Richmond Marathon Nov-13-1999
 4:15:55 Not a clue on what to expect
Richmond Marathon Nov-18-2000 4:18:31 Thought I knew it all, but got burned
Myrtle Beach Marathon Feb-17-2001 4:23:35 Super Strong Head Wind from Miles 9-12 that slowed me down
Richmond Marathon Nov-10-2001
 4:09:03 Found My Groove at Mile 4 and sailed to PR RACE REPORT
Mardi Gras Marathon
 Feb-17-2002
 4:38:14 GROSSLY UNDERTRAINED. Only ran because I had the opportunity to run.
Richmond Marathon Nov-09-2002
 4:27:06 WORST MARATHON EVER! Hit the Wall at Mile 14. Ran my 5k PR time the week before – STOOPID RACE REPORT
Virginia Creeper Marathon
 Mar-30-2003 4:57:54 24 miles of this is trails… and there happened to be 4inches of snow on the ground at Race Start RACE REPORT
Myrtle Beach Marathon
 Feb-19-2005
 4:45:20 Was using this marathon as a Dress Rehearsal for Knoxville Marathon, hit The Wall Hard at mile 20, last 10k was slow RACE REPORT
Knoxville Marathon
 Mar-26-2006 4:21:44 Hit Wall around Mile 22, toughest marathon course ran to date RACE REPORT
Chickamauga Marathon
 Nov-10-2007 4:08:39 Rolling Hill Course. Hit Wall at Mile 25 RACE REPORT

And you can also peruse my Buckeye Outdoors Training Log

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  • You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry based on the timestamp will be your official guess
  • This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that the closest time over or under my finishing time will be valid to win.
  • The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used.
  • Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize unless I already have it. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.
  • There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.
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And the Winner is

October 1, 2008 planet3rry 3 comments

Deb!

Deb wins great CRAP for her guess of 3:13:13 for the Big South Fork Trail Race!

She Wins:

  • A RAZZLES candy MAGNETIC memo pad
  • Bendable Monster to commemorate her victory in guessing my time

and another surprise that I have to dig out of my workshop reach into the surprise closet to get. All I would need from Deb MUHAHAHA is her mailing address MUHAHAHA.

The next contest will be a double, NO, make that a triple-dipple contest. I’ll have the details, but it’ll be something like:

1) Guess The Rutledge Marathon Time

2) Guess The Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon

and/or

3) Enter in a combined total for BOTH marathons

This is give you a chance to in guess each marathon twice! And I will have 3 winners!

I am thinking that the prize for #3 will be something slightly better than CRAP like a ROAD ID or perhaps a gift certificate or something else… or maybe a choice depending on whether the winner is a runner or not.

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Guess My Time, Win Crap

September 25, 2008 planet3rry 7 comments

Howdy neighbors! This week has been crazy and so this is posted a little later than normal. Hopefully there will be enough time to try for all the glory that comes with winning cool prizes crap.

It’s Race Week and it’s time for another contest! Here are the Rules:

1) Leave a time you think I will complete the Event as a comment to this post.

Event: Big South Fork 17.5 Mile Trail Run website

2) You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry based on the timestamp will be your official guess

3) This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that you time will count whether your time is over or under my official time

4) You can enter as long as Comments are allowed for this post, which is typically through Race at some point, but seeing we will be camping, you might get a little extra longer to post guesses.

Big South Fork is on Saturday Sept 27th at 8:30am

5) The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used

Results for this Event are (eventually) posted at: RACES RESULTS WEBSITE

6) Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.

7) There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.

8) All submissions must be made as a comment unless you are technical incompetent, then I will accept other forms of submission such as carrier pigeon, smoke signals, tea leafs, chicken bones, etc

9) Is my favorite number, so I wanted the Rules to go to 9, so, uh, have fun!

The Crap Prize for which you are competing is:

Undetermined CRAP at this point

Stuff to help you in your guess:

Historic Big South Fork Times:

Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-9-1999 17.5 m 3:00:15
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-14-2000 17.5 m 2:51:25
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-6-2001 17.5 m 3:04:40
Big South Fork Trail Run Oct-2-2004 17.5 m 3:10:29
Big South Fork Trail Run Sep-29-2007 17.5 m 2:56:26

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And the Winner Is…

August 18, 2008 planet3rry No comments

Ms. Shirley Perly

of Humble Triathlete Fame

with her time of 25:00.000000000000000000000000000000

only 2 seconds off of my official finishing time of 24:58!

Swag will be sent this week once I confirm desired preferences… that’s right people when you win Crap from me… I go try to great lengths to make it the best better kinda good to not suck.

Race Report to follow when I am not doing 2 3 4 5 1,000,000 things.

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Guess My Time, Win Crap

August 14, 2008 planet3rry 9 comments

That’s right… although I haven’t been blogging much lately with traveling and then a big ole “Hey, your Kid IS going to Kindergarten this year” Bomb being dropped. Oh, and our Resourceful and Reliable Au Pair went on vacation this week, because… we didn’t think The Elder would be in school this week… But that is a different post for a different day because…

IT’S RACE WEEK

It’s Race Week and it’s time for another contest! Here are the Rules:

1) Leave a time you think I will complete the Event as a comment to this post.

Event: Scholar’s Run 5k website

2) You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry will be your official guess

3) This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that you time will count whether your time is over or under my official time

4) You can enter as long as Comments are allowed for this post, which is typically through Race at some point

Scholar’s Run 5k is run at 8 am on SATURDAY AUGUST 16th

5) The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used

Results for this Event are (eventually) posted at: Parks & Recreation

6) Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.

7) There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.

8) All submissions must be made as a comment unless you are technical incompetent, then I will accept other forms of submission such as carrier pigeon, smoke signals, tea leafs, chicken bones, etc

9) Is my favorite number, so I wanted the Rules to go to 9, so, uh, have fun!

The Crap Prize for which you are competing is:

A Bag, a box of Tea and a pack of Gum

Stuff to help you in your guess:

Last Five 5k Times:

Reindeer Run Dec-2-2007 5 k 22:33
Spring Sprint Apr-12-2008 5 k 24:12
Ribbon Run Apr-19-2008 5 k 24:10
Run for the Deaf May-3-2008 5 k 23:27
Fireball Classic Jul-03-2008 5 k 26:23

Historic Scholar’s Run Times:
Scholar’s Run Apr-24-1998 5 k 23:07
Scholar’s Run Aug-28-1999 5 k 22:07
Scholar’s Run Aug-26-2000 5 k 22:51
Scholar’s Run Aug-25-2001 5 k 24:24
Scholar’s Run Aug-24-2002 5 k 23:13
Scholar’s Run Aug-23-2003 5 k 27:36
Scholar’s Run Aug-21-2004 5 k 24:57
Scholar’s Run Aug-20-2005 5 k 24:36
Scholar’s Run Aug-19-2006 5 k 25:12
Scholar’s Run Aug-18-2007 5 k 23:32

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Contest Results

July 4, 2008 planet3rry 3 comments

I’ll be writing up a Race Report soon, but I wanted to say that Pa-Pa (aka Pete) won the Guess My Time contest with his guess (by proxy) of 24:35.

My official Time was 26:31 finishing 404th out of 850 finishers. In my age group I was 39/75. It was not a good showing for me… think Expo just a shorter race.

But don’t fret, there should be another contest coming up this month!

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Guess My Time, Win Crap

July 1, 2008 planet3rry 6 comments

OKay, so my multi crap prize contest disappeared faster than Dobby the Elf from Harry Potter. But guess what? Chicken Butt.

MY TIME!

It’s Race Week and it’s time for another contest! Here are the Rules:

1) Leave a time you think I will complete the Event as a comment to this post.

Event: Fireball 5k Road Race website

2) You can enter as many times as you want, but only your most recent entry will be your official guess

3) This will be an Over/Under format, meaning that you time will count whether your time is over or under my official time

4) You can enter as long as Comments are allowed for this post, which is typically through Race at some point

Fireball 5k is run at 9 pm on THURSDAY JULY 3rd

5) The Official Time as reported at the event website will be the End-all-Be-all result. Should no result be posted, then my watch time will be used

Results for this Event are (eventually) posted at: KTC.ORG

6) Winners will have to send me their postal address to gain their prize. Giving me their address subjects them to such things as world domination, Christmas Cards, and other random items (and sometimes embarrassing items) sent to their homes.

7) There are no restriction for past winners… Enter and Win and Enter Again.

8) All submissions must be made as a comment unless you are technical incompetent, then I will accept other forms of submission such as carrier pigeon, smoke signals, tea leafs, chicken bones, etc

9) Is my favorite number, so I wanted the Rules to go to 9, so, uh, have fun!

The Crap Prize for which you are competing is:

Some Book of Quotes that I can find at our local Used Bookstore

Stuff to help you in your guess:

Last Five 5k Times:

Scholar’s Run Aug-18-2007 5 k 23:32
Reindeer Run Dec-2-2007 5 k 22:33
Spring Sprint Apr-12-2008 5 k 24:12
Ribbon Run Apr-19-2008 5 k 24:10
Run for the Deaf May-3-2008 5 k 23:27

Historic Fireball Times:

Fireball Classic Jul-4-1998 5 k 23:35
Fireball Classic Jul-3-1999 5 k 28:00
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2000 5 k 23:30
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2002 5 k 23:17
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2003 5 k 23:39
Fireball Classic Jul-3-2004 5 k 22:57

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Guess My Time, Win Crap

June 20, 2008 planet3rry 2 comments

That’s right, it’s another edition of the World Renowned Contest called Guess My Time, Win Crap and do I have a load of crap prizes for you this week. Since this race is a Triathlon (event of swim, bike and run), BernieBob tell them what they can win:

“Thanks Terry! That’s right folks we have a load of crap prizes for you to win this week. You have not only one, two or three chances to win, you actually have FOUR chances to win. That’s right! Four Chances for some of the best crap prizes that you can win! Here’s how it’s going to work: There will be 4 official times reported: Swim Time, Bike Time, Run Time, Overall Time. You can Guess My Time for any or all of these disciplines

Crap Prizes that you can win:

Green Sling Backpack

A Book of Quotes

Bag of Clif Bloks and a Clif Shot

Mystery Prize Not Yet Determined

Discipline Distances:

Swim: 800 meters (1/2 mile)

Bike: 16 miles

Run: 4 miles

Entering your time will be the same as other Guess My Time contest. Respond with a comment to this email with your guess(es). I will leave comments open until some time on Sunday afternoon when I get back, official results should not be posted by then. I will post results as soon as I know which should be Monday. Time closest (over or under) to the official time is the winner, if there is a tie for some reason, I will use the Time Stamp as the tie breaker. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have a Battle Royale. Winners must surrender their mailing address to me, so that they can receive their prize. Addresses will be used for mail the prize, threat of Christmas Cards and world domination.

Previous contest winners can enter as well. If for some reason you enter in your time and you can’t sleep at night and want to change it, just put in a new time and it will negate the previous guess. Is that it? I think so…

Warning: Condition associated with Triathlons. Since you can’t instantaneously go from swimming in the river to riding your bike to running, there are things called Transitions (commonly referred to T1 and T2 in the biz). The people who manage this triathlon will use chip timing and BOTH transition times will probably be included in the bike time. So, if may be in your best interest to think of the Bike Time as T1&Bike&T2 time.

T1 – Shortly out of the water, you run over a timing mat. Run to your bike, get your shoes on, helmet on, get your bike, run to the bike exit, mount your bike and start riding.

T2 – You dismount your bike, run it to your spot, drop your helmet, run to the run start, cross over a timing mat.

ShirleyPerly – if you don’t happen to read this post before I close comments, I will use your time from the previous post as an overall time. I know that you are motivated by prizes, so I don’t want you to be left out!

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