iRunFar Salomon Sense Mantra Holiday Giveaway
December 24, 2012 by Bryon Powell · 812 Comments
The Salomon Sense Mantra
We’ve already partnered with Strava to challenge you to get out and run over the holidays. Now, we’re partnering with Salomon to spread a little holiday cheer by giving away five pairs of the brand new Salomon Sense Mantra, the training model in their Sense line. [Update: Contest completed!] All you need to do to enter is leave a comment (before January 1 at 11:59 pm MST) letting us know how you’d use your Sense Mantra in 2013. Anyone can leave a comment, only US residents can win.
And the winners are… (MST time of comment included to avoid confusion)
- Benj (12/24 6:09 am)
- Jack (12/24 10:35 am)
- Jacob (12/24 1:22 pm)
- Pete (12/24 2:12 pm)
- Jimbo (12/24 3:00 pm)
Ps. Whether or not you win the giveaway, you can be one of the first to have the Salomon Sense Mantra or the Salomon S-Lab Sense Ultra by picking them up now from the iRunFar Store.
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Bryon Powell is the Editor-in-Chief of iRunFar.com, which he founded five years ago. Also the author of Relentless Forward Progress: A Guide to Running Ultramarathons and a contributing editor at Trail Runner magazine, he's quickly approaching 10 years as an ultrarunner and 20 years as a trail runner. These days he calls Park City, Utah and its trails home.
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I would use them to train for the inaugural prairie spirit 100 in march!
I would use them to train for my first 50k!
Hi Guys,
Will be training for the Iceage Trail Run 50. Not sure I need a pair of trail shoes.
But with the way we go through shoes. Who wouldn’t love a free pair.
Happy New Year.
I’m working up the kahonas to run the Lake Hughes trail marathon and eyeing Leona Valley for ’14 and hoping I can find something 30kish in between. and I agree with Dave about the free shoes.
Haply New Year!
I would love to try these out as I increase my time on my local trails here in Michigan.
I would Ebay them, and use the money to buy the S-Lab Sense Ultra. The Mantras are too heavy and the heel/toe drop is too long for my taste. Just being honest. Do I win?
Well, since I didn’t get into Western, Hardrock or Barkley, my prepared answers of the Grand or Rocky Mt Slam don’t apply. Instead, the Mantras will be used to train and run a Fat Ass 100mi of my own styling – the 10mi loop that Psycho Wyco 50k is run on. Should be roughly 22k of elevation gain – yes, in Kansas – on a rocky, rooty, horse-cratered, muddy clay infested trail. Should be a blast. :) Pacers/crew/spectators, or those who are crazy enough to join me in being the first to do a full 100mi on this trail are welcome! Email me – date TBD.
Easy. I’d put the rock plate to the test here in South Texas. Hill Country Natural State Area, site of the Bandera 100K, is my back yard.
I would use them to run the San Juans ( I live in Telluride, Co.) and train for the trail ultras I have on the cue this year! I log a lot of miles in the light weight and 4mm heel drop of the Brooks Pure Grits and have run two 50 Milers in them this fall/winter along with many 20 mile 6000+ vertical days. The Salomon Sense Mantra makes more sense to me because when you are cruising at altitude with no trail and the freedom of the hills calling…sometimes that midsole and the wear test standards Brooks is totally and reliably upfront about presents itself…and you need another pair sooner than 250 miles, sometimes sooner than that afternoon ;-) It would be great to confidently unlock more enchainments with a shoe that shares similar technical specs but that I can trust to stay together in conditions most of the top and really impressive minimal and light weight shoes just aren’t designed to withstand. If it can sidehill and stay stable on traverses, they’ll have a customer for life!
I would use them to keep the rocks at bay at MMT100!
Perhaps you should wait for our bulldozer giveaway! ;-)
i’d use them to keep running farther, keep running faster, keep myself saner, more balanced at work and at home, keep my soul enriched out on the trails, keep my legs getting stronger and looking better for my wife, keep myself healthier, leaner and guilt free after the occasional slice of pizza here and there, keep my son proud that his father is patient enough, fit enough and tough enough to run long trail races, keep myself honest 6 hours in, tired as hell with no way out but over those final two mountains (the long road home). i’d use them to keep doing what i love to do: running.
I would use them to do a whole lot of trail running in 2013, because I’m hoping to do my first 100-miler in 2014.
I would use them for running beautiful trails in the Virginia mountains!
Cheeha 50k and Miwok for sure. Negotiating with the significant other on UROC, Leadville, Run Rabbit, Grindstone, or Pinhoti.
If I won the shoes I would run the 50 mile race in Madison, Dance with the Devil and then the 50 mile at the North Face Challenge. Love my five fingers, but free would get me to try something else.
any fitment notes? Wide toe box? Sizes run true?
Running my 1st 50k
I’d use them to train for my first 5k.
I would use them to run in this snowy, icy, Minnesota winter! Training for my first trail race and can’t let the cold and wet stop me. I need a great shoe to keep me motivated and leave no room for excuses.
I plan to run the CCC (UTMB) and will be training in Germany, Colorado, and California, which are all fantastic places to run in the Mantras!
i will use them to get out and spend some good ole quality time with my hubby on the trails! Training for a 50 miler, too, but that’s secondary to the sheer joy we get from running together for hours on end :)
I would use them to train for my first 100 (along with a 50 and some other shorter races).
I would use them to train and run my first trail run and half marathon ever.
I have been a long time HUGE fan of the Salomon brand and their products. Unfortunately my one-year old tends to win the battle over her toys versus “daddy’s toys.” :) I would love to get a pair of of Salomon Sense Mantra to continue my Ultra training. In 2013 I’ve got a lot of races lined up to include my 4th 100-miler attempt, a 3-day stage race and of course some hikes with my little girl in tow! :)
I can use a new pair. the Franklin mountains ate mine
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I will use them to train so that I can keep up with my grandkids! And to be able to try and keep up with my daughter and son-in-law who run crazy distances (marathons are for wimps!)
I would use them to train for (and run) a couple of 50Ks and 50Ms, not to mention just getting out and enjoying running on our very rugged, technical trails.
I would use them as I start from square one again after an ankle sprain and a subsequent blood clot in my leg. As a high school cross country running and track coach, this is the down time, but I have to get back up to some running as an example for the kids I am blest to work with every day.
Running in the Shenandoah and GW Nat’l Forest, pointing to the Trans-Rockies!
Nice! I’m running my first 50-miler this year and I love Salomon shoes!!
I will break the unsupported fkt on the wonderland trail with them.
I’ve been looking for a good pair of shoes to rock a 225k down in Costa Rica. Everything I’ve read about these seems to fit the bill. I think I could really use them in the coastal challenge in February, Six days of fun jungle running where things might actually give u chase!
I’m hoping to run my first ever 50k in May. These would be great for training.
I would use them to make friends and influence people.
I would use these to extend my limited Alaskan summer outdoor running season into the fall, winter & spring months.
Kicking it in AK! Training for my 2nd 100 miler, and a Hardrock qualifier. Shooting for Cascade Crest but Plain and Pine to Palm are runners up.
Thanks for the great resource and chance to win sweet gear.
I run pretty far in my much needed to replaced shoes in snowy AK:)
:) beautiful shoes for a mediocre looking man like me:)
Run in the Alps when I go back to visit Austria in June!
Exploring more of the Sawtooths and Cascades!
Use them for my first 50km trail race on the island of Borneo in September. Hope I win a pair !
Spending some quality trail time on the uber technical goodness of Pine Mountain Trail.
Hopefully they would be a Waldo 100k race shoe!
Running through winter time in Chicago along the lake and trails since Santa missed our house this year.
I would run farther.
O’yea & it’s my B-day, New age group! yipee skipee!
I would love these for my trail 100 in April!
I would use the Salomon Sense Mantra to train and race as hard as the top ultra runners (Tim Olsen, Kilian Jornet, Michael Wardian, etc.) that continue to inspire me to become not only the best runner I can be but also the best individual I can be. Love the site and can’t wait to see what to see what 2013 brings! Happy New Year!
Wow! What wouldn’t I do with a free pair of Salomon Sense Trail Shoes? I’d run to the top of my favorite peaks with my dog (and BFF). I would run through snow covered drainages. I would tell all my friends how much I love my Salomon Sense Trail shoes and encourage them to try Salomon trail shoes too! :)
They look great for winter running.