Wednesday, January 25, 2012

An "Island Paradise" Giveaway!

Yeah. That's right. Steve in a Speedo can send you on an island adventure.

Wait, no I can't. I definitely can NOT. Nope. Can't. Sorry.

Here's what I CAN do. I can make you THINK you're on an island adventure.

Mid to late January is the most depressing time of year. I hear a "report" about that on the news every year: something about Christmas being over, holiday bills coming due, spring still being a long ways off, blah, blah, blah.

So how about 20 "Island Nectar" Gu Roctane gels?


It will let you dream of warm, sandy beaches with it's tropical flavor.


And just in case you're like me and stuck someplace cold, how about a BRIGHT Pearl Izumi Thermal Run Hat to "brighten" your winter mood?



These Thermal Run Hats are made with fast drying, odor absorbing P.R.O. Thermal fabric with Minerale (unreal technology that makes garments and gear incredibly more breathable). They come in black, red, white and screaming yellow. The winner here will get "Screaming Yellow" since it's UBER bright and actually useful for these winter months when it's darker and you need more bright pieces to be seen.

The winner of this giveaway will get 20 Island Nectar Gu Roctane Gels and one Pearl Izumi "Screaming Yellow" Thermal Run Hat:



ALL YOU NEED TO DO TO ENTER IS TO COMMENT ON THIS BLOG POST! Holy crap. That's easy. So do it. Now.


BUT WAIT!
*said in my best "infomercial" voice*


The people at Gu and Pearl Izumi have TWO sets of gels and hats to giveaway!

I'll give one set to a random commenter on this blog post, and I'll give another set out to those "social" folks hooked up in all kinds of social media. If you "like" Gu and Pearl Izumi on Facebook, and then send out this tweet...

Island getaway? Nope. How about some great tropical @GUEnergyLabs and some @pearlizumikody gear from @SteveinaSpeedo?! http://bit.ly/yAxKX

... you'll then be in the running to win ANOTHER set of GUs and a hat. I'll pick a winner from those that sent out this tweet.

So that's 20 Island Nectar Gu Roctane Gels and a great Pearl Izumi hat for a commenter on my blog...



... and ANOTHER 20 Island Nectar Gu Roctane Gels and a great Pearl Izumi hat for someone who "likes" Gu and Pearl Izumi on Facebook and sends out that tweet!



Quick side note on this Gu Roctane.... Roctane is my gel of choice for hard workouts and racing. I mentioned all my details on that in my race day nutrition post. I'll have 2 Gu Roctanes on me for my half marathon this weekend.

*Gulp* THIS. Weekend...... Crap.

OK, comment NOW (on this post) to be entered to win, and LIKE Gu and Pearl Izumi on Facebook and send out that tweet to be entered AGAIN (if you'd like)!! (Your blog comment can be anything - if you comment "Unicorns are just Horny Horses," you're entered!) I'll pick 2 winners in about a week - sometime around Wednesday, February 1st. Check back to see if you've won! Thanks for entering everyone! And thanks to Pearl Izumi and Gu for the sweet gear!!

195 comments:

  1. I haven't tried the Island Nectar Gu Roctane! And I sort of love ridiculously bright running gear, especially in winter.

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  2. Me too, me too! Why should Steve be the only one running in ridiculously brightly colored apparel?

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  3. Mmmmm Island Nectar. Transports me instantly back to Puerto Rico!! And I love that hat! The last two pairs of Asics I've gone through are that lazer lemon and lightning lime colors. I like bright. :D

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  4. I <3 free stuff, so sign me up!

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  5. I got a sample of Island Nectors maybe a year or so ago? And had mixed feelings...but am ready to try again. It's always good to mix up Gu flavors. You can only have so much Mint Chocolate!

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  6. I'd love the free stuff! Great blog!

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  7. Thanks Steve......will the cap make me faster?

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  8. Hey this is Lane from North Dakota sign me up.

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  9. Dam strait I need me some Roctane! Sign me up!

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  10. 20 Roctane might be the ONLY way I'll break 4 hours in a marathon, so pick me, pick me, pick me!

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  11. fingers crossed! I've always wanted to know what an island tasted like

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  12. Pick me! I live an hour away from the Canadian border. I'm practically in the Arctic Circle up here!

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  13. I'm down for some color and energy!

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  14. I was hoping to see pictures of Henry wearing the hat.

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  15. Unicorns are just horny horses! Sorry, had to do it

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  16. I'm all about ridiculously colored running gear, which normally determines my shoe choices more than it probably should. The more obnoxious, the better. Both of these things would be great now that I started my marathon training program up again!

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  17. This is a random blog entry. Do zombie sluts drive cars? Guess which blog I had just visited...

    Looking fwd to the hat and gu arriving. We need more hats here.

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  18. I usually go for chocolate or coffee flavoured gels. I'm however intrigued by this Island Nectars gel... it sounds exotic.

    Love the bright yellow hat, but I have a feeling that will clash with my bright orange/green running shoes, bright blue running jacket and purplish t-shirt. :)

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  19. Sing me up please. Could definitely use a florescent toque!

    Rob

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  20. Yum! I need all the help I can get to pretend I am NOT in Wisconsin right now.

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  21. Nice giveaway! Count me in.
    Susan in Shoreview

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  22. I would love to try a new flavor of GU and obnoxiously bright hats are the best way to get through a dreary winter in MI!

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  23. Hmm....I'll have to go with "Unicorns are just Horny Horses!".

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  24. That hat would actually be a bit tame for me, but I'll take it anyways.

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  25. Roctane and P/I! What a combo!

    bdube

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  26. I haven't tried Roctane yet, but this sound great! Plus my Ragnar team is full of newbies so we are having a gels/chomps/etc energy options sampling bar at our next meeting get together in Feb, so if I won, this would be awesome!

    And I totally need that running hat!!

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  27. I love both products. Please sign me up!

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  28. Yea Gu! Yea Pearl Izumi. Yea Steve!

    :)

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  29. Islands and bright hat! Yah!

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  30. I want to look like a human highligher all hopped up on Roctane GU!

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  31. Unicorns are just Horny Horses

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  32. Yum I bet the Island Nectars rocks. Hum

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  33. could totally use some tropics right now! LOVE the yellow hat!

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  34. The Qilin is the Jacki Chan of mythical creatures. It tries to avoid trouble, but trouble always seems to find it.

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  35. I'm in...thanks, Steve!!

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  36. My hubby wants the GU and I want the hat :)

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  37. I could really use that hat and I'm always up for trying new flavors of gels. Please pick me! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please! Please!

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  38. that is a damn sexy hat. thanks for hosting this one!

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  39. Please sign me up. Enjoy the blog, it brings a smile to my face everyday.

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  40. Count me in! Unicorns and horney mammals and all that good stuff.

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  41. The Island Nectar flavor is horrible. Worst Roctane flavor. It tastes like bitter chemical flavors mixed with hippo butt crack sweat. Do NOT pick my name to win.

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  42. So if I tweet that, I get an extra entry but I'm potentially decreasing my chances of winning if I'm actually popular on Twitter...

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  43. I'm in, GU flavors take me back to younger military days drinking Screech (Old Mil. powdered drink that was so powerful in taste it made you screech while drinking it) good times!! ....
    The hat is pretty cool too!!

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  44. I've been needing a good running hat for winter!!!

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  45. Well, that sounds like fun! Thanks.

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  46. Everytime Stanley takes a steaming poo in the cold of the morning, I think of you. So, send me this Gu.

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  47. Loving your blog!! My bro is training me for my first half marathon and turned me on to reading all about your adventures. Thanks for being so you!!

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  48. I want!! The island AND the hat to wear on the island ;)

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  49. I liked on Facebook because I'm a winner!

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  50. I Like Pearl Izumi and love GU. Hoping to try the Island Nectar. Tweeted and Like.

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  51. Would be nice if at least the outside of my head was bright. ;)

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  52. Kris in Minneapolis9:21 AM, January 25, 2012

    I like free stuff!

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  53. About time you finally post the giveaway that would be "in the next couple of days" for the last week or so. LOL No really, with the gray midwest winter days, I could totally use that hat! I've never tried any kind of Gu though I just got a peppermint stick one to try from XLMIC. But who knows - I may need some for some races this year. :)

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  54. If i am not too late sign me up!

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  55. Love the yellow hat! GU Roctane is one of my favorites.

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  56. Oh man the hat is so awesome. Haven't tried Roctane, but this could be a great chance!

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  57. My husband loves Gu, and he needs a running hat. Please pick me.

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  58. the hat would totally match my neon yellow brooks jacket.

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  59. If a tree falls in the forest, then springs back up again, do the squirrels freak out?

    (Tropical gu and a flaming yellow hat would clear this up)

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  60. Could use the GNU for this weekend's half-marathon

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  61. What a great give-away; thanks for the opportunity to win.

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  62. A unicorn is a horned horse!!! So true! Darren in Hilton Head will take one entry please! But not if it brings cold weather here ;)

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  63. I am hoping the Island Nectar will make me mentally warmer during cold training days.

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  64. Would love to be on a pseudo island adventure wearing this hat and consuming Island Nectar Gu! Count me in. Thanks - Mary in Crystal.

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  65. My favorite running hat's older than the last three women I dated.

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  66. I've been needing something in screaming yellow...

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  67. That hat is all kinds of BOWL FULL OF SUNSHINE yellow! Giddyup!

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  68. Pick me! Pick me! Always in need of bright yellow hat.

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  69. In Calgary Alberta if you have a day job the only time you can run is at night and a bright Pearl Izumi cap would be perfect. GU gels have been a part of my running for the last couple of years, love the mandarine orange.

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  70. It would match my screaming yellow Pearl Izumi jacket perfectly.

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  71. Margot from San Francisco11:47 AM, January 25, 2012

    Sign me up please!

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  72. Love to have the GU and hat...tahnks for a great blog

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  73. Awesome giveaway! I'd love to be entered. Thanks!

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  74. LOVE the Island Nectar Roctanes, but they're tough to come by.

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  75. Weeeee! Free Stuff! I haven't tried the Roctane Gu's so now would be a good time to try 20 of them :) Sign me up

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  76. I prefer blocks to gu, but I prefer free prizes to paying $1.50 per packet!

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  77. Nice! I have a crazy yellow jacket already, but my husband needs that hat.

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  78. Cool, nothing like wearing a bright hat and suckin' down GUs! Count me in brotha!

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  79. In on this, thanks for the giveaway!

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  80. Awesome - the color of the GU matches the color of the hat!

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  81. My head can't be too safe. I think that color beanie has the right amount of "caution big head coming through" yellow.

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  82. On the other hand, you have different fingers. Thanks Steve!

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  83. I love the hat! Can we please see a picture of Henry modeling it?!

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  84. I tweeted about the give away! @AlexaTC

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  85. Aloha, Steve! I'm a big fan of Gu, so pick me so when I train in my coconut shell bikini I stay nourished! OK, I don't really train in a coconut shell bikini... :( but I would if they had better support and I lived somewhere tropical! :) Melanie P in PA

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  86. Hey hey, pick me! I am in the market for a new running hat, and would love that one.

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  87. Unicorns are just...hey wait. You're not going to get me with that one.

    Tweeted @TriAndRunForIt

    Like: GU and Pearl Izumi already

    Thanks for the giveaways!! It's cold here in Pennsylvania.

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  88. I LOVE that hat!! It would match my friends jacket perfectly, maybe I would share...most likely not.

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  89. I think it's about time cars see me.

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  90. Did the social media liking and tweeting - @runinboise

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  91. That hat is awesome! And I love roctane. crossing my fingers...

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  92. Need that hat - it's cold here in WV!

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  93. Hmm...sittin on a beach with some Gu Roctane a bright yellow hat and nothing else but the sound of waves. I'll take it!

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  94. Pearls of add-wisdom...careful stepping in Gu...

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  95. ooooo....that yellow hat combined with my reflective vest MIGHT keep me safe from the paperman in the early morning hours...maybe!

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  96. Another great give away. Thanks Steve!

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  97. I don't tweet, but I would love an entry to win me some Roctane and that girly hat.

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  98. i love roctane and having a highly visible head. this giveaway is meant for me!

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  99. I would eat/drink anything right now that might make me imagine for 2.7 seconds that I am on the beach!

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  100. X

    (marks the spot)
    Mike in Mankato

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  101. I liked and tweeted. Hope I win, I like that hat.

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  102. Some island nectar would help me get through the winter!

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  103. Wow...too easy!! Please count me in as one of the "possibly lucky" winners, and thanks from all of us.

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  104. I just did both "Likes" and the tweet as well. :-)

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  105. Love the hat, perfect for running this time of year! Nice and bright! :)

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  106. Steve, Hook me up with some Roctane and Hat. I would love to be all juiced up on some island nectar while I wear that spiffy cap all around town. The crowd will go wild...

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  107. I'm all about Gu and PI gear!

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  108. I could use a warm hat and a cool island breeze!

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  109. I want to try the awesome new flavor. Only a half this weekend. I have a full!

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  110. As I am training for a Spring half, I can use both things. Huzzah!

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  111. It takes 14 pancakes to cover a doghouse because a basketball has no feathers. And, sign me up for the giveaway and I tweeted!

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  112. The yellow hat would help be seen at 5 am running...and the Island Nector Roctane...sounds delish!

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  113. Steve. I like Gu and hats. Please give them to me.

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  114. Steve,
    Comment comment comment, comment comment comment. Comment!
    Katie

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  115. I'd like both for my winter runs. The gel would help fuel my marathon training long runs, and the hat would keep me warm in the cold winter.

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  116. Count me in! Love the hat!

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  117. I need that hat because I just got a really bad haircut- that way I can blind people with the neon and they won't notice my hair.

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  118. I loves me some Gu roctane and hats when I'd rather be running somewhere tropical!!

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  119. Roctane is my favorite, and who doesn't love neon?

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  120. pick me please! I have never had this flavor, but I swear by roctane in races. Just today I was thinking how awesome it would be to be hooked up to an IV of GU

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  121. Thanks for the giveaway Steve!

    Brent from MInneapolis

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  122. Love that lime green color and Gu is great!

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  123. My schedule just changed, so I have to run in the early morning dark. The hat would be perfect. I haven't tried Roctanes yet...

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  124. Hook me up with the goods! 2 entries for me please.

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  125. I'm in and I tweeted. I pretty much only have Twitter for your contests!!

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  126. A lovely yellow Pearl Izumi hat to brighten a dismal Canadian winter would be awesome. Yummy Island Nectars GU would fuel a chilly long run too... Hope my number comes up!

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  127. I was looking up unicorn jokes to post something funny, but all of them are in bad taste.

    Cheers,
    Becca

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  128. I'd love some Island Nectars to take me away from this gloomy, rainy day at work.

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  129. Steve,
    I could really use that hat.
    Clinton from NC
    Thanks

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  130. Hmm not sure about the GU, sounds interesting. I'm loving the hat though!

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  131. I haven't tried Island Nectar Gu yet & that yellow Pearl Izumi hat is incredible! I love it!

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  132. I haven't tried Island Nectar Gu yet & that yellow Pearl Izumi hat is incredible! I love it!

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  133. I haven't tried Island Nectar Gu yet & that yellow Pearl Izumi hat is incredible! I love it!

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  134. I haven't tried Island Nectar Gu yet & that yellow Pearl Izumi hat is incredible! I love it!

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  135. Island Nectar Gu sounds yummy!!!! I'll need it for my long runs and 1/2 marathons.

    & I am in love with that Pearl Izumi hat!

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  136. Sign me up. I love Rocktane and definitely need a winter pick me up!

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  137. I am loving the color of that hat. Havent try the Nectar yet either

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  138. I need a new winter running hat and want to try GU!

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  139. I could totally use that sweet hat as I embark on Ironman training this week!!

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  140. Throwing my hat in the ring....virtually of course.

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  141. Okay, I need to try this. I currently only use one flavour of gu! Some variety would be good.

    I also tweeted...

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  142. A hat my kid might not lose so easily. Or I could threaten him with a gu if he lost it.

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  143. I want to Roctane the Pearl yellow hat!

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  144. "Roc On"
    Hit me up with some free sh*&.

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  145. i like gu and i like yellow. plus i feel like that hat needs to be called a toque...and therefore needs to come home to canada- land of the toques.

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  146. That hat would be a fabulous addition to my running attire!

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  147. Awesome giveaway! Like both on fb and I tweeted. Thanks for two chances to win!

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Thanks for your comments! Have a great day!