I have two amazing race giveaways today!! I am sooooo super excited since I have run both of these races and LOVE them. I’m doing the giveaways in separate posts so check back for the other one in a bit. First let’s talk about a lil full marathon called The Marine Corps Marathon…
The Marine Corps Marathon is October 25th in Washington DC. It’s 26.2 miles around some of the most iconic and important spots in the country. And the race is sold out.
I ran the race year before last with the Watermelon Board. I run for watermelon so this was a perfect partnership.
Check out Watermelon.org for Recipes, Fun Stuff for Kids, Carvings and More!
The Watermelon Board is one of the sponsors of the Marine Corps Marathon. They are giving one RER reader a bib to run the race! And they are giving out watermelon after the race!!
You can read my Marine Corps Marathon Recap here for more details on the race.
Marine Corps Marathon Bib Giveaway
If you are available and able to run 26.2 miles (there is no half marathon option) on October 25th 2015 and can get to Washington DC – throw your hat running shoes in the ring!
To Enter: Leave a comment on this post answering what you love more –
Running OR Eating??
Contest closes Friday 8/28 at 8am PST.
Disclaimer: The MCM bib is provided by the Watermelon Board. All opinions are my own.
Hmm so similar. I feel good when I do both, badly if I miss either, and both are pretty necessary for a happy fulfilled life. 🙂 But… I’m going to say eating, because I even do that while running.
Running… because it makes eating afterwards so rewarding!
Running wins because of the feeling after, I often regret my food choices. Except watermelon, of course!
I love both, but if I had to choose, it would be eating. And I love watermelon or anything watermelon flavored.
Tough choice – is running or eating my favorite? But got to go with eating. I can go a day here or there without running. I can barely go a couple hours without eating.
Eating!!!
Oh, eating! But I have to run so that I *can* eat the way I want!
Eating 🙂
This is super tricky — a lack of balance with both affect me mentally, physically, emotionally, etc. However, I have to say that I enjoy eating more (I dream about pizza while I’m running, but definitely don’t dream about running while eating pizza — that’s good logic for choosing eating, right?) 🙂
Eating. Eating is always the right answer. I started running Ultra’s so I could eat more 🙂 I live in DC and yet have never run the Marine Corps Marathon!!
Eating!!
Eat, then run, then eat again! I’d love to have a bib for the Marine Corps Marathon
Eating……especially when I’m rungry.
Running (but eating is a very close second).
Running… it’s much easier to focus on running than it is eating. When I eat I have ~1 million things going through my head, when I run… I think about 1 thing at a time.
I love to eat. BUT I love running more. I love how it makes me feel. The people it has lead me to. The places I have visited because of running. I love that eating fuels this. I love that running allows me to enjoy volumes of food. I love running because it’s such a part of my life. It’s gotten me through relationships, new jobs, lost jobs, before baby after baby. Always there. It’s like a BFF to me.
Running!
Running
I love running more than eating. While both are necessary for overall health, running makes me a better version of myself. I’m more calm, cool, and collected after a good run.
Monica, come on’, is this a serious questions!? 🙂 Eating, for sure!
It’s a toss-up but since eating involves pizza and running sadly doesn’t, I am going to have to say eating.
I love running more then anything. It helped me get through so many hard times and ending up making so many great memories
I have a love-hate relatoinship with Running, but it’s true love with Eating! Chocolate no bake cookies… yes please with seconds!
Running for sure… Without it I’d lose my mind! 🙂
How can I possibly choose one or the other!?!?!?! I guess I will go with eating because without food there is no running. Pizza is my weakness!! Nom, Nom, Nom
Running but eating is necessary to live 🙂
I love thinking up yummy food ideas WHILE I am running! So food then?
I would love to run the mcm since this is my first time being stateside when it is being run! I would be repping the army though, that’s my branch! I would get to visit my folks too! Bonus round!
Also check out this link of 21 amazing watermelon sculptures!
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/watermelon-sculptures
eating!
i definitely run TO eat–eating all the way!!
What a great giveaway, thanks for hosting! Definitely running & eating – I could never choose a favorite!
Running…I think…(but it’s hard to run without eating, so maybe eating?)
Running! Unless it’s eating watermelon…then eating 🙂
Running…… Then eating All The Food! My boyfriend just joined the marine reserves, so this race would be amazing to run! Even better if we could run it together ❤️
Running then eating…preferably lots of watermelon!
Do I really have to choose? okay then, EATING! but running is a super close second….
I definitely run to support my eating habit,.. so eating, DUH.
I live in DC so this would be awesome!
I mean, running is great… But eating is bae.
Running wins. MCM is one of my faves!! Great giveaway.
Eating for sure!
eating, duh. i love running because i can eat more!
I really want to lie and say running! But the truth is that I love to eat. Candy specifically. I ran the MCM ten years ago and during training I gave up all sugar for the four months leading up to it. While I was running someone was handing out Halloween candy and I grabbed a handful of candy corn and when I ate it I could not believe how good it was!! I promised to never give up candy again! I love it just too much.
Would love to run MCM again! Also I’ve been binge watching the West Wing recently which really makes me want to go to DC….
Eating!! Or I could say running, because it makes me really hungry and able to eat more which I really really love. It’s a chicken and the egg type thing 🙂
I would really love to run this marathon!
Sonya
running AND eating, particularly watermelon – it is the best thing about summer!!!
Eating – that’s why I have to love running! I have wanted to run the MCM since I started running in 2009. I have signed up twice and never been able to run it!! Once because of a stress fracture in my leg and the last time because of super storm Sandy (flight cancelled on race day and had to leave before the race to get home for my teaching job).
Ahhhh! What a hard one! Can I say running followed by eating???
Eating! always.
that’s a tough one…I think my favorite is eating watermelon after running 🙂
OMG eating by far!
As much as I love marathons and Ironman racing, I love eating more, hands down. No contest
Eating.
But since October 25th is my birthday I figured I should try to win a free bib 🙂
EATING! But running comes in a close 2nd place.
BOTH!! Ha ha , but thankfully running more than eating or I’d be a roley poley!!!
Eating. So many sensory memories come with eating certain foods. Grandma’s cooking, pumpkin in Fall, ice cream cones from your favorite place as a kid.
Well considering I started running because of my love for eating, I’ll have to say, EATING. But my life would not be complete without running.
100% eating!!!
That’s nearly an impossible question to answer! Eat to run…run to eat… I’m going to say eat, but by the smallest of margins!
This is so hard. I love eating. But I love running because it allows me to do what I love . . . eat.
Does it count as an entry if you can’t choose???
tough choices ! I think I love running more:)
Eating! But running the MCM would be amazing!
That’s a tough one….but I definitely run so I can eat more so I’ll go with running. 🙂
Eating, for sure. But I would love another chance at the first marathon I ran!
Holy moly this is a big giveaway. Eating of course 🙂
Running!
SO hard to choose running or eating? I think I’d have to say I love running more. ❤️
I love eating waay too much.
Eating!!
Eating…that’s why I love running 😉
Eating takes the cake! (pun intended… :-P)
EATING! By far!!
I love to run, because then I get to eat 🙂 I have entered the lottery for MCM so many times, this would be such an awesome race to run! Fingers and toes and everything crossed for this one !
I have always wanted to run the Marine Corps Marathon! I definitely love eating more–but running is a close second!
i love eating most….unfortunately. LOL.
Eating!
I could never pick between those! That would be like picking a favorite kid!
Without a doubt, eating! A.K.A. one of the main motivations to run!
Eating 🙂 …just being honest!
Mostly I love running so that I can eat ALL the food after! So eating. Mostly breakfast foods (hi, my name is Ron Swanson). All kidding aside, running is pretty awesome. Super excited about this give-away, this is the second year in a row I did not get chosen for the lottery and I live 1 mile from the marathon start!
It is running for me now that I have made a commitment to fitness and health. I try to eat much healthier with lots of watermelon to run better.
Eating of course, ESPECIALLY WATERMELON!!! That’s why I run. 🙂
Running… the MCM! (JK — obviously it’s eating!)
Oooh this is a tricky one, but I would have to say eating wins out by a smidge. If I win this contest, though, running will definitely win. It has been my dream for a LONG TIME to run the Marine Corps Marathon!!
Does eating after running count? I love to eat, but it’s always WAY better after a run!
Running 🙂
Oh gosh, this question is like asking me if I want peanut butter or chocolate. But I’m guessing in that answer alone I am a lover of food the most. I love to run, but my ultimate mouthwatering joy comes from eating!! Thanks for this chance to win!!
I love eating more.
Eating! But I love eating even more AFTER running 🙂
Hmmm…my life motto is “eat to run, run to eat” (<–pretty much justifies all the ice cream /whoopie pies I can get my hands on)…but if I had to pick…running just makes me happier!
I wish I could say running, but the reason I run is mostly motivated by my thoughts of what to eat…..so, eating!!
Running! With my brother, who was recently transferred to the military base near DC!
eating!
I would definitely say eating. I even have a decal on my car that say “I Run for Cupcakes!”
BOTH! Running allows be to refuel and there is no better way to refuel than with doughnuts or Pop Tarts!!!
Eating!
This is a CRAZY and AMAZING give-away. Thank you! I have to vote for eating. Hands down!
Sadly, eating. And that probably explains why my running doesn’t go as well as it should.
RUNNING!
If I’m being perfectly honest, eating.
Eating, especially eating after a long run.
I love running but eat is a close second!!
Somewhere along the way I switched from running so I could eat more to running for its own sake. So I guess I love running more even though I run 5x a week and eat at least 21x a week. 😉
I love running best. Unless it is eating cookies and peanut butter m&ms, then eating is my favorite.
tough question, but I think I’ll go with running….followed very closely by running. And I love the MCM–it was my first and second marathon years ago and I’ve always wanted to run it again.
That’s a TOUGH one. But I have to go with eating and ESPECIALLY eating after running 🙂
Such a hard one….ok…Eating!! A motivation behind my happiness in running.
Eating for sure!
I met you in the coral at this marathon 2 years ago. I would love to run this race again then eat at one of the many awesome restaurants in DC
Eating!! Washington DC is one of my favorite places and I’ve always wanted to do this marathon!
Eating!
While I’m a pretty committed runner, eating is definitely the highlight of my day — but it’s best when I build up my appetite on a run! I’ll be in DC that weekend for work and would LOVE to run Marine Corps!
Eating!
It’s a very close contest but at the moment I prefer running! It’s much easier to think about eating, plan eating, visualise eating…while runnning than vice versa 😉
I’m training for the Dublin City Marathon in October (I’m Irish living in Ireland) so The Marine Corps Marathon would be an easy substitute training-wise and an unbelievable opportunity – Pick Me 🙂
Eating…defintely!!
Eating!
Running then eating