Our Favorite Things

Honest Tea is Honestly Good!

by Isis on September 3, 2010

I’ve never been much of a tea drinker. My favorite beverage of all time is water…but I know that tea has its benefits and water does get kind of boring after awhile. Lee often buys fun drinks from Central Market and I end up sampling here and there. One day I tried Mango Acai White Tea made by Honest Tea and it was amazing! Sweetened with a pinch of sugar cane and fruit juice, it’s what they call just a tad sweet. Ever since my first taste, I have been experimenting with other flavors and am really coming to enjoy all of their varieties of teas.

I have learned that tea is an acquired taste. For those of you that aren’t into it now, I suggest starting with a mild, sweet tea. No, I don’t mean taking tea and putting half a glass of sugar in it! My first sip of tea was green tea and I was not a fan at all. Now that I have eased my way into those stronger teas, I can say I enjoy green tea now!

Honest Tea is also very cool because they are on Facebook and Twitter. Who doesn’t like when their favorite brands play in the socialsphere?

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Blog Giveaway!!! ~ SPIbelt

by Team Hargrave on August 10, 2010

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We are so ecstatic to have another blog giveaway from a great company! We’ve been talking to our friends over at SPIbelt about how much we love their product and wanted to give our readers a chance to win one! We have seen many creative ways to carry personal belongings while running a race. Everything from high-tech expensive brand carriers to duck tape! We happen to think the perfect small personal item carrier is SPIbelt! See why we love SPIbelt here. Lucky for you, we have one to giveaway but you must show us the most creative way to carry your items. Best creation will win a SPIbelt!

Ok, so here is how its going to go down… You have two things to do for an entry and you have 48 hours to get it done.

  1. Funny Photo: Send us a photo of the most creative way to carry personal items while working out to “therunningcouple@gmail.com”. If you don’t have one…we encourage you to create one. We’ll add all pics to our Flickr stream for everyone to see! We’ve put one of our favorite pics below to get you thinking…
  2. Tweet it: Send out a tweet containing the following phrase: “I just entered the @runningcouple @SPIbelt Giveaway at http://bit.ly/SPIbeltGiveaway“. Feel free to do whatever with the remaining 50+ characters!

We’ll announce the winner on Friday morning. Good Luck!

We have a winner!!!

A big thank you to all that participated in our contest. We sent our Facebook photo link to our friends at SPIbelt and they selected their favorite. Congratulations to Jennifer Whitter! She submitted a picture of her homemade tutu’s as a form of carrying her small personal items.

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Our Favorite Things: SPIbelt

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One of our most received questions is, “Where do you put your iPhone/iPod when you run?” We feel sorry for these people as we often go into a 10-minute synopsis on one of our favorite running gear accessories, the SPIbelt. How much do we love SPIbelts? Well…we each have three SPIbelts and are thinking about [...]

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Our Road ID Giveaway Winners!

July 9, 2010

We know…we are a little late to announce the winners to our Road ID giveaway, but there were so many awesome entries! Before we get too much into it, we wanted to thank everyone who participated and Road ID for allowing us to do such an event. We were so impressed with your responses that [...]

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Blog Giveaway!!! ~ RoadID

July 7, 2010

We are so ecstatic to have our first ever blog giveaway! The awesome people of Road ID gave us chance to review a couple of new products and give one away to one of our readers! You even get to choose which one you want. How flippin sweet, right? We love our Road ID Wrist [...]

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Our Favorite Things: Road ID

July 2, 2010

Accidents happen…even to runners. While we don’t like to think about these events, it is always a good idea to be prepared. Each year approximately 450,000 of us are taken to hospitals unconscious and without identification. This is where Road ID comes in. Road ID was formed by the father and son team of Mike [...]

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Our Favorite Things: The Sennheiser MX 85 Headphones

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One of the best things about the running community is product reviews from people you trust. With the increased adoption of social media, more and more are heading to Twitter, Facebook, or their favorite blog before trusting a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. We love to experiment with new gadgets and wanted to share some of our [...]

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