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Puma Boston Street Meet Contest LetsRun.com has long believed the key to our sport's survival is to make it entertaining and exciting to casual fan. Hopefully the Street Meet can do just that. So when Wejo's college teammate Matt Taylor of ChasingTradition.com and Chaskingkimbia.com fame (now the running marketing guy at Puma) approached us about having a contest to give away a VIP prize package to the Street Meet, we thought it was a great idea. If you don't know what the Street Meet is, read Matt's write up below. If you just want to win the trip to Boston, hang out with Usain Bolt, and watch the races, click here. The Grand Prize winner gets an all-expenses paid trip to Boston for two and - get this - Usain Bolt to record your voicemail message! About the Street Meet  
Truth is: some of the fastest athletes in the world never step on a track because they choose another sport instead.
But what if the Street Meet discovered them first?
At the Street Meet there's something for everyone. Here are the events in which anyone can participate: Street Sprint - Ten people at a time toe the line and race our street course. The winner of each heat will advance to the final where the Street Sprint Champion will be crowned. Speed Trap - Do you have the raw speed to become the next Usain Bolt? Let the radar gun show you and your friends how fast you really are and compare that to Bolts top speed in Beijing - 27mph! 100-Meter Flash - We know you cant beat Bolt in a foot race. Can you beat him riding a bike? Run The Line - Test out the new Puma running shoes in a way you've never tested shoes before - just follow the red line and then give us your honest feedback. We're making some great training shoes, but we need your help making them even better. And here are the events that everyone can watch, but in which only the fastest will compete. Sean Quigley Street K: Jamaica solidified itself as a sprinting nation with its tremendous success in Beijing, including Bolt's three World Records. But there's more to island running than short bursts of speed. Bolt wants to show the rest of the world that Jamaican middle distance running is also fast. (Although he wants to be clear: he'll never venture beyond 400 meters.) This 1-kilometer street race will match the fastest middle distance runners from Jamaica against the fastest from the US. Street 4x1: Bolt is bringing Jamaica's fastest high school boys and girls to race against Boston's fastest. Teams are coed and each leg is about 100 meters. Athletes wont be running in an oval or with a baton. The fastest high school squad from Boston will form one team. And the fastest people from the Speed Trap event will form the other teams. Street 4x4: Bolt made his name as a high school 400m runner, so he's taking this classic track event and settling it in the streets. His Jamaican high school team will toe the line against Boston's best high school team, plus two teams consisting of the top finishers in the Street Sprint Championship. Once again, teams are coed. Street DMR: High school rivalries are huge in Jamaica. The Boys & Girls Champs in Kingston is perhaps the greatest high school track meet in the world with 30,000 fans decked out in their team's colors. Bolt wants to see that same passion in Boston so we're pitting the high schools in Boston with the best sports traditions against each other. Each school will be represented by its three fastest boys and three fastest girls, from any sport. Relay legs will vary in distance, from a short sprint (~50m) to a long sprint (~300m). Bolt will crown the winning team Boston's Fastest High School. More on the street meet at the street meet website: http://www.pumarunning.com/browse/streetmeet Usain Bolt's Entry The contest is pretty simple: Usain Bolt and LetsRun.com want to know:
What does fast mean to you? Were not talking about cramming for
exams or rushing to meet deadlines. Were talking about the
get-out-of-the-house-and-get-those-feet-moving kind of fast. The
kind of fast that talks trash. Trades in Saturday naps for six
miles in sunshine. And breaks world records with its shoelaces untied. The kind of fast that happens anytime,
anyplace. Show us what fast means to you (via text, video, or a photo).
The Grand Prize winner will win a trip to Boston for the first ever
PUMA Street Meet. The event will be hosted by Usain Bolt, the
Worlds Fastest Man. The deadline for submission is midnight,
April 15. So get creative fast. The PrizesThe Grand Prize winner will receive: two (2) roundtrip coach class airfare tickets Boston, standard hotel accommodations and ground transportation in Boston, and a VIP invitation to PUMAs inaugural Boston Street Meet. You'll also get Usain Bolt to record your voicemail message. (So don't forget your cell phone!) SUBMISSIONS Submit one of the following answering the question: What does fast mean to you? 30-second video clip 100-word essay 1-MB photo Entries will be judged by Usain Bolt, Tommie Smith, Sean Quigley, Delilah DiCrescenzo, and LetsRun.com. They will select ten finalists and then you, the readers of LetsRun.com, will select the winner. How to enter. Below is the entry form and official rules. If you want to enter with a video, upload the video on youtube and tag it "streetmeet" and put the embedded code below. If you want to use a photo, we will add an upload box later (email us the photo if you want to submit it today). If you want to type a 100 word entry, type away.
Clearly we at LetsRun.com did not come up with these. Lets Run.com & PUMA Sweepstakes Official Sweepstakes Rules NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE ONES CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. No Purchase Necessary. Sweepstakes starts on or around
12:00AM (Central Time), on April 8, 2009 and ends at 11:59 P.M. (Central
Time) on April 15, 2009 (hereinafter the Sweepstakes Period).
Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the continental United States,
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This Sweepstakes is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Participation
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media, for any purpose, in perpetuity and shall not be returned. Any
incomplete entries will not be eligible for selection. Only one entry
is allowed per person. Enter online at www.letsrun.com/2009/streetmeet.php
and include your name, address, telephone number, email address and
age. 3. Winning. On or about April 15, 2009
Sponsor(s) shall select ten (10) finalists to be voted on by the public
via online voting at www.letsrun.com during the period of April
16, 2009 to April 20, 2009, at which point one (1) grand prize winner
and three (3) runners-up will be selected at Sponsors sole discretion.
The selected grand prize winner will receive a Grand Prize which will
consist of the following: two (2) roundtrip coach class airfare ticket
Boston, standard hotel accommodations and ground transportation in Boston
and a VIP invitation to PUMAs inaugural Boston Street Meet.
TOTAL GRAND PRIZE ARV: $1,400.
Winner will be notified via e-mail or telephone and winner will get
to choose either the Grand Prize trip or One Thousand Four Hundred U.
S. Dollars ($1,400) in cash (Grand Prize ARV). The three (3) runners
up will receive PUMA running products and an autographed poster of Usain
Bolt. TOTAL RUNNERS UP PRIZE ARV: $300. The odds
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