If You Ran The White Rock Marathon ...
... and are planning to run the Chevron Houston Marathon and the Freescale Austin Marathon, there may be a Brooks jacket in your future -- if you claim it!
A project of the Austin Marathon Foundation, the three (3) marathons teamed up to create marathonsoftexas.com - despite what I believe is an incorrect name as they do not represent all of the marathons in Texas - and will give a Brooks jacket, free of charge, to anybody that completes all three (3) and e-mails them to let them know that they have.
Currently, the Foundation should be on reserve for 3,305 of them - the number of finishers at White Rock. However, the number that run all three (3) will certainly be less and those that claim them by taking the time to 1.) know about the site, 2.) know about the offer and 3.) send the e-mail with jacket size and a mailing address will be even fewer.
I think it is a noble endeavor (and wish more would do so around the state) although my rub is similar to the one with the HEB Texas 10K Challenge - you have to take action to claim it!
I think that the Foundation - and the HEB Texas 10K Challenge, for that matter - should on their web site list all of those individuals that are still eligible (just like is done for the Austin Distance Challenge - of which 582 still remain for the 7-race series). Maybe it is in the Foundation's plan for mid-January after the Houston Marathon. I guess we'll see. (Same goes for the Warm-Up Series mugs! Recognize everyone that achieved the feat online in a public place! It is something that can easily be delivered in an electronic format to be displayed on the HARRA website.)
My take is that three (3) technologically saavy marathons could collectively mine their data and e-mail runners who have completed all three and seek out the jacket size information instead of working in passive mode and putting the onus on the runner to do so.
Didn't the runner do enough already to register for all three races, pay their fees, travel to and actually run the events? Why not do something for the runner in this case? Don't you think that the extra effort will do more to influence runners in the future to accomplish the feat? I think it would.
A project of the Austin Marathon Foundation, the three (3) marathons teamed up to create marathonsoftexas.com - despite what I believe is an incorrect name as they do not represent all of the marathons in Texas - and will give a Brooks jacket, free of charge, to anybody that completes all three (3) and e-mails them to let them know that they have.
Currently, the Foundation should be on reserve for 3,305 of them - the number of finishers at White Rock. However, the number that run all three (3) will certainly be less and those that claim them by taking the time to 1.) know about the site, 2.) know about the offer and 3.) send the e-mail with jacket size and a mailing address will be even fewer.
I think it is a noble endeavor (and wish more would do so around the state) although my rub is similar to the one with the HEB Texas 10K Challenge - you have to take action to claim it!
I think that the Foundation - and the HEB Texas 10K Challenge, for that matter - should on their web site list all of those individuals that are still eligible (just like is done for the Austin Distance Challenge - of which 582 still remain for the 7-race series). Maybe it is in the Foundation's plan for mid-January after the Houston Marathon. I guess we'll see. (Same goes for the Warm-Up Series mugs! Recognize everyone that achieved the feat online in a public place! It is something that can easily be delivered in an electronic format to be displayed on the HARRA website.)
My take is that three (3) technologically saavy marathons could collectively mine their data and e-mail runners who have completed all three and seek out the jacket size information instead of working in passive mode and putting the onus on the runner to do so.
Didn't the runner do enough already to register for all three races, pay their fees, travel to and actually run the events? Why not do something for the runner in this case? Don't you think that the extra effort will do more to influence runners in the future to accomplish the feat? I think it would.
posted by WalkSports.com | 7:39 AM
1 Comments:
In response to your last question: NO. It saves them money on the promotion if not 'everyone' knows about it. It's the same way where I work: I can send you a sample of our product out for $5.00 (cheap promotion!), but we don't advertise this anywhere. The only way you find out is IF you ask (and you know where I work!) lol.
-Jessica
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