Announcing a Blog Partnership with The North Face Endurance Challenge Series
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
In late June, I was approached by a representative from The North Face Endurance Challenge Series inquiring about a blog partnership as a result of my race reports for their D.C event (2012 50k report, 2013 50M report). If you're not familiar the North Face Endurance Challenge Series is a race series comprised of six locations (New York, Washington DC, Missouri (cancelled), Wisconsin, Georgia, and California) offering seven race distances at each location (50 mile, 50k, marathon and relay option, half-marathon, 10k, and 5k) which are predominately trail running events with the exception of Missouri.
I was pretty flattered and really excited about the opportunity of participating in additional events because I had great experiences, both performance and atmosphere wise, at their D.C race the past two years. However, the logistics of traveling to their remaining events (Wisconsin, Georgia, and the championship in San Francisco) would be difficult because of previous commitments around some of those dates. The Wisconsin race, September 14-15th, happens to fall on the day of my sister's wedding and is out of the question for obvious reasons although I wish she would have considered the ECS race calendar when picking her date (kidding). The Georgia race is only two weeks after, September 28-29, but would be difficult to travel to as I'll be missing the Friday just two weeks prior and I begin my student teaching observation this fall with a mandatory 150 hours to be completed on Mondays and Fridays during the semester. The inability to participate at Wisconsin and Georgia meant the championship race was my only option, which actually works out best because it falls at the end of the semester but not in the middle of exams. Further, I had a stack of frequent flier miles remaining from when I worked at Siemens that needed to be used, and I will able to fly round trip for free, well aside from the $25 processing fee and taxes. Not a bad deal.
Now as part of the partnership, there are some perks for you guys!
- Free registration code (Qty: 1) - I get to give away a registration code to a follower who posts pictures via Instragram using the race hashtag (i.e #ECSWisconsin or #ECSGeorgia) of their training leading up to a race, either Wisconsin or Georgia. The details will be in a separate post (August 10th).
- 15% registration discount (Qty: UNLIMITED!) - Want a discount on your race entry to either the Wisconsin on Georgia North Face ECS race? Well look no further, enter the promo code: BSHER13 case sensitive at registration, and you'll receive 15% off!
- Interview with a North Face Athlete - You might be saying to yourself, "how does that benefit me?" and I know how much you guys love to hear what I have to say but sometimes it's good to mix it up, so I hope to do a separate post race blog about the interview experience.
- Awesome pre and post race blog entries! Well, I suppose you would probably get these regardless of whether or not there was a partnership.
3 comments :
Awesome... I will definitely repost and tweet
You always impress us with your drive and determination.
dude nice!!! that's incredible. you HAVE to interview Jezz Brag in my opinion. his new zealand traverse this past winter was in.cred.i.ble. there's so much you can ask about that that hasn't been delved into. tim olson and crew are all great, but have been interviewed a million times. i say do Jez. not to mention he's done all the big hundos.
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