Saturday, April 30, 2011

First Time Ever Dirtbag Fitness 50/50 Guess My Finishing Time Contest!!!

Dirtbag Friends! I come to you with a special contest offer.
As you know, the Honolulu Triathlon is coming up and your favorite Dirtbag will competing in the Olympic distance event, my first time at this distance! And if I've learned anything from ESPN.com's the Sports Guy its that if something is fun to watch, its way more fun to gamble on. So as a First Time Special Event Fundraiser Extravaganza Dirtbag Fitness proudly presents the 50/50 Guess My Time Challenge!

Here's the scoop:
-For every $5 sent in to Dirtbag Fitness using the PayPal link to the side you can have one guess at my overall finish time of the Honolulu Olympic Distance Triathlon in 15 second increments. The person closest to my actual time will be sent 50% of the total Dirtbag profit, with the other 50% going towards the care, feeding, upkeep, and competing of Dirtbag Fitness. (If this does well I'm using the money towards a bike box so I can travel to far off distant lands and get beaten by those people. If it doesn't I could always use more tire tubes.)

-For $25 you can have six guesses. That's one free guess, allowing you to block off a whole minute and a half for only $25.

-You must put your prediction in the comments below on this blog so everyone else can see and we don't get any doubles. Also, please send your predictions with the paypal payment so I have all your information in one place should you win.

-Rather than spoon feed you what I think my time will be, you've gotta use your noggin. I'll tell you it should be slower than two hours but faster than three. I'll even link you to my last race report and I'll remind you that every race up to this one has been a Sprint distance. This is an Olympic distance. Wasn't that nice of me?

-Remember, you must guess in 15 second increments. Please use a hours:minutes:seconds format for your prediction with along the lines of, "My prediction is a total overall time of 2:03:15. Dirtbag is a rock star of epic proportions!" or "I think Dirtbag will destroy the field with a final time of 1:56:30. I also think his awesomeness will cause any pregnant women he passes to spontaneously give birth."

-To sweeten the pot, if you manage to guess my exact time to the second I'll send you 75% of the profit rather than 50%.

-This Fundraising Contest begins today and ends the night of May 14th, which is the day before the race.

If this goes well and there is lots of participation then next time we'll break down the race into time predictions for each discipline as well as an overall time guess. If it doesn't go well and only two people participate...well then I'll send thank you emails to Dirtbag Parents and Dirtbag Best Friend, give someone their ten bucks, and pretend this never happened.

The relevant information once more is :
$5 = one guess

$25= six guesses
Guess in 15 second intervals

Post guess(es) in the comments below.

Thank you for playing, donating, and reading and good luck to everyone!

12 comments:

  1. My predictions are as follows:
    2 hr 16 min 30 sec
    2 hr 16 min 45 sec
    2 hr 17 min 0 sec
    2 hr 17 min 15 sec
    2 hr 25 min 15 sec
    2 hr 27 min 30 sec

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  2. My awesomely soon to be exact predictions are:
    2hr 16min 00sec
    2hr 18min 00sec
    2hr 18min 15sec
    2hr 20min 30sec
    2hr 22min 45sec
    2hr 35min 15sec
    It's on Tim.

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  3. Ha Matt..... 2 hr 35 min? You think he is walking? This is Doug we're talking about... he and his hairy short stumpy legs in those goofy shoes are will finish much faster than Two Hours Thirty-five minutes.... and you call your self a friend.... geez..... :)

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  4. 02:05:00
    02:10:00
    02:12:30
    02:15:00
    02:15:30
    02:34:15

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  5. 02:02:00
    02:08:30
    02:17:30
    02:21:00
    02:29:45
    02:42:15

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  6. Ok, one more, after actually doing some math.
    02:40:15

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  7. 02:06:30
    02:09:15
    02:11:30
    02:13:00
    02:14:00
    02:19:00

    And at the end of the race Doug will turn into a shark and feast on all those who finished ahead of him.

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  8. First guesses:
    02:05:00
    02:10:00
    02:12:30
    02:15:00
    02:17:30
    02:34:15

    and my other guess
    02:41:30

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  9. 2:15:30
    2:19:30
    2:22:00
    2:25:30
    2:29:00
    2:32:15

    I really hate PayPal. Can't I just mail you a check?

    Good luck and have fun.

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  10. Thank you so much everyone! We have two more donations that haven't guessed yet and I'm really hoping they get those guesses in before I post a final time online. With those predictions plus Amelia's "my check is in the mail" the 50/50 winner will get nearly $100! I'm blown away, thank you so much!

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  11. Last minute guesses:

    02:04:30
    02:08:45
    02:15:15
    02:21:45
    02:33:15
    02:42:00

    Come on, big money! Bigmoneybigmoneybigmoney! Nowhammynowhammynowhammynowhammy! STOP!!

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