New Balance NB Minimus Life Give Away!

Win a FREE pair of the new New Balance NB Minimus Life shoes by entering our drawing! The random drawing will be held next Monday, March 7th. To enter, send us a picture of your last shoes before you went minimalist or any picture of shoes that need an u…

165 people entered the NB Minimus Life Giveaway! Look at all those old shoes!
165 people entered the NB Minimus Life Giveaway! Look at all those old shoes!

The NB Minimus Life Winner is jracecar! (3/7/2011)

JRaceCar’s caption – I admit that I was wrong about you, airshoes. [Editor’s comment: note the razor blades and bubble wrap — interesting photo and I think the NB Minimus Lifes are going to a deserving pair of feet!]

Jracecar or “Adam” had a bit more to say about his photo:

The photo came from me finding the worst example of a running shoe that I owned and attempting to indicate a break from that part of my life. I paint pictures on occasion, and when I do I often use razor blades to apply and remove paint. So that is oil paint on the blades I had leftover from a recent project. The bubble wrap is just something that was in the art space, and promised a much more relevant and interesting texture than the basement carpet that was the alternative.

Very cool, and congratulations Adam!

We received more than 165 submissions (though those received after the 165 came after the drawing cutoff time!). Each photo was submitted with a description or tag that describes the shoes being submitted. Some great, fascinating submissions below—which ones are your favorites? Vote by name in the comments and we’ll elevate the best below. Here’s one to kick it off:


Andrei
Lindsay		 Todd

More Pics after the jump!

(mouse over for description, click to zoom)

Paul rNc John Todd Angga
Michael Simon Janice Jerrica Nora
Karolina Ben Joey Jody Chad
Adam Dean Kevin Alex William
Ryan Nathaly Mike John Claude
Atilla David
JB
TW		 JV

Matt
Marc
Jen		 Andrew Peter
Todd Christor Scott Nick
Bob
Alexander Paulina Matthew Joe Joseph

Paul		 Andreas S. Deacon Debra
Chris
Jeff Willie Dalton EricP Bill
Nathan Erin Dan Syed TB
RT
JQ		 TZ SF Ioanna
Cody Alice Arnoud GFM DG
Patrick Woody
AWO		 Elizabeth MikeV
Steven WMC Nate SN JG
MH SC TJ LAH Shanon
Robb
WTP		 Armon Rodney DS

JBR
Lindsay
jracecar
Spencer
SP

Jen
KC
DP
Corey
Shane

Levi
Dave
Clyde
FRY
CS

Johnny5
Jamie
JDI
Rodger
Jenny

James
Anthony
JM
Kenneth
Ben
AO
Austin
Howell
Jon
JS

Jacob
DC
Chase
Greg
Bryan

MCW
JosephG
DK
Marty
SJ

Mark
Ron
JamesS
AH
JoeS

Jesse
JC
Alan
ScottN
Jeremy

Man0000
MikeD
Ed
Regan
LH

Jason
Joshua
DA
Aaron
CV

Albert
CJ
Jim
JH
Rich

EDR
BC
GB
Tony
Lee

Andrei
Daniel
Ken
CM
JN

Win a FREE pair of the new New Balance NB Minimus Life shoes by entering our drawing! The random drawing will be held next Monday, March 7th. To enter, send us a picture of your last shoes before you went minimalist or any picture of shoes that need an upgrade. We will publish the pictures and a description of the shoes in this post as they arrive.

Here is what you need to do to be entered in the drawing:

  • Take a photo of your old shoes.
  • Write one sentence about your old shoes (Perhaps why you liked them or why you replaced them).
  • Send the picture, description, and your first name or initials to
    [email protected]     from an email address where we can notify you if you win!

Be creative! You can be in the picture and be wearing the shoes if you like though the shoes should be easy to see. Write whatever you feel needs to be said about your old shoes. Note that accepted submissions will be posted below though names of submitters will be be limited to first name or initials. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose other than this contest! Rest assured! Pictures will be posted daily, or when I get around to it. The winner will be notified next Monday at the email provided and we will collect the information on where to ship the shoes at that time.

Cutoff Time: All pictures must be received by 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) Sunday, March 6th. The winner will be announced around noon on Monday, March 7th.

Big thanks to the folks at New Balance for sponsoring this event!

Disclaimer: We reserve the right to reject any entries we feel inappropriate.

By Britt

Hailing from College Station, Texas (Home to Texas A&M!), I grew up running cross country. Believe it or not, I gave Justin the name for this site back in early 2009 but I didn't jump on the toe shoes bandwagon until a year later. I am also really into quadcopters and drones and have a blog called OddCopter.com.

8 replies on “New Balance NB Minimus Life Give Away!”

Justin,

I think you’re going to run out of bandwidth on this one, LOL! Everybody wants those shoes. So let me make you a deal. You send me the shoes and I’ll help you save all that bandwidth. ;0)

Rgs, Jeepman

I vote for Todd. Feel his pain of not being able to wear 5 fingers to work. Not right…give him some feel good work shoes!

Well … I had to give myself a consolation prize to cheer me up 😉

Just purchased orange NB trails … Love them so far … I am loooking for an option for golfing … Like golfing in VFFs but when there is some dew … not so fun

Congrats jracecar!!!

Justin,

I wanted to place a vote for Lindsay because I know that it is said that people who run in traditional shod footwear are more prone to injury but if anyone is wondering if its true they can look at Lindsay’s pic! Dude, I think that a pair of minimalist shoes would do her some good 🙂

I vote for Andrei’s, it’s a very original picture and with sense of humor. However, I doubt you could even close that little paper bin if you throw those lunar boots in it.

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