Seven-time Ian adventure racing world champion Ian Adamson and ultra-running legend and two-time Badwater winner Pam Reed share a penchant for pain and suffering. Both are training hard for the Badwater Ultramarathon in a couple of months.
As part of their training and to raise awareness for an important cause, Ian and Pam are spending eight hours on a treadmill at the Rock’n'Roll Marathon in San Diego this weekend. To honor their pain, we’re going to give away some Newton shoes to a couple of lucky winners.
Since we launched Newton Running about three years ago, Newton has proudly supported the Trickle Up Foundation with a $1 donation for the sale of every pair of shoes. Trickle up was created to help poverty-stricken people in developing countries to launch micro-enterprises by providing seed capital grants and business training – it’s a small non-profit that’s making a big difference in the world.
In order to raise awareness about Trickle Up, Ian and Pam will be running on the treadmill for eight hours straight wearing pedometers to train for Badwater. (Ian is running Friday for eight hours, Pam is running Saturday for eight hours).
Here’s how to win FREE SHOES.
Guess at the number of steps they will each take over the course of the day. Two winners (for the closest guess for Ian) will receive a pair of Newtons of their choice. There are four different ways in which you can enter:
1. Stop by our expo booth and write down your guess.
2. Leave a comment on this blog post with each guess.
3. Tweet your guesses and include the hashtag #NewtonRnRSD
4. Leave a comment on the Facebook post announcing the contest.
The contest will run until the end of the day on June 5th, when we will pick the winners, and break ties via a random drawing. You can read the full contest guidelines here.
Sweating it out for eight hours of running in place will be good training for whats up next—both Ian and Pam will be running Badwater in July as part of the seven-athlete Newton team. Stay tuned for more updates on the team.
144,000 for Charley; 167,520 for Ian.
My guess is 81,600 for Charlie and 84,000 for Ian.
70,000 for Ian
75,000 for Charlie
4,353,000 for Charile & 4,608,000 for Ian
76,800 each
137,142 for Charlie and 142,612 for Ian.
84,480 for Ian; 85,816 for Charlie
98,345 for Charlie and 102,334 for Ian.
86400 for Ian
87001 for Charlie
105,600 for Charlie – 112,640 for Ian
73,000 for charlie, 71,000 for Ian
83,742 for Charlie
83,969 for Ian
88,450 for Ian
Charlie 83,743
Ian 112,641
Ian: 112,500
I saw someone on Facebook already guessed the number i guessed @ 12,500, so I will make my official gues 112,508
69,879 for austin!
68,787 for charlie 71,023 for ian
90,777 for Ian
85,777 for Charlie
80,000 strides for Ian.
85,920 for Ian
86399
86,800 for Ian
149,022 for Ian, 153,012 for Charlie or his replacement.
Pam: 85,868
Ian: 93,666
my guess is 80,640
OOPS!!!
I need to double my guess – please put me down for 91200
42,241 steps for Pam
Ian: 81,022 steps
Pam: 83,687 steps
My guess is 86,400 for both.
Ian: 115,485
Pam: 131,233
I say 103,000 for Ian, 101,000 for Charlie
ha, my bad, 103,000 for Ian, 84,000 for Pam
my guess: Pam will take 83,520 steps
Ian – 82,680
Pam – 76,801
Ian:112,010
Pam: 108,810
68458 for Ian; 66,902 for Pam
Ian – 76,567
Pam -74,902
Pam – 84,123