Lipton Free Your Y Bike Winner Announcement.

I had said the winner would be announced on Friday because I wanted to allow time for the winner to actually respond. Fortunately the winner responded quickly so I’m just going to put everyone else out of their misery and tell them…sorry, you didn’t win but WOW did I agonize over this giveaway. I wish I had a bike to give to everyone and yes that includes those of you in Canada (Manuela) and New Zealand (Andrew) who left comments at the injustice of it all.

I closed the drawing for the bike at 4pm on Wednesday. I randomized the list of entries and had the random number generator ready to push the enter button. My finger sat hovered over that button waiting to press it. As I waited I talked to Ken about who might win, would it be someone who really needed it, and would it be someone who would actually use it. He had read through the comments people left and he agreed that there were a LOT of deserving people out there who not only wanted the bike but needed a bike, and who would use a bike.

For 11 minutes my finger hovered over that button. My stomach was actually starting to churn with butterflies and my name wasn’t even in the mix! I didn't think this would be a difficult thing to do and I’m so glad I used a random number instead of picking from the stories entered because quite frankly, I’d still be reading them and trying to pick the best entry.

Ken was sitting here with me and he said "I can tell this is hard for you but you only have ONE bike to give away, I know you want to give everyone on that list a bike but you can't, you only have one bike."

"This really is hard, everyone deserves this bike, I really do wish I could give all of them a bike but I know I can't"

"just push the BUTTON already"

So I pushed the button and the number 67 came up. I said "I can't even look at it, you look at the list and read me the name"

So he did....

Our winner whose name was next to number 67…. Running Nan

Congratulations Running Nan, I hope you’ll make great use of this bike and give it a loving home.

Now for those of you who didn't win, hang in there, the Summer Blog Party is kicking off on Memorial Day and there will be lots of great prizes, challenges and contests and chances to win all summer long! Hope to see you there! Remember if you want to be a Summer Blog Party Host, Email me by May 23rd at scalejunkie at gmail dot com.