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Er, you pay money to enter a race, not for a bag of "words from our sponsor", surely?
As you say, Parklife, you've paid money to compete. They don't buy the items in question - they are given them as advertising, or as a gesture (by supermarkets, who are stuck with a load of cranberry sauce....)
Most races seem to not have them any more - I've not had a goody bag for years. Perhaps organisers felt they weren't appreciated
Petal (my missus) won her age group at Zurich triathlon - she went up to get her prize and was given a bunch of flowers (nice) and a plastic bag with something heavy in it. one of the race sponsors was a breakfast cereal supplier and the goody bags we had when registering had a sample pack inside.
she had only won 2kg of said cereal......
anyway - as per Wilks - I've not seen a decent goody bag for years and frankly don't worry about the contents any more. it often seems that the smaller the event, the better the bag.........
Trisha Goddard DVD at the Jane Tomlinson Run for All in Leeds. To be fair there was a sheet in there with a message of support from her what with having cancer and such. But at the end of the day i'll bet she was having to pay storage on those 12,000 or so unsold discs. And the Darlington 10K this year had a very nice Tshirt and nothing else, other than a very strange, chemically tasting Subway "cookie". Nasty.
Actually, thinking about it, a lot of the competitors could have done with the (work-out)DVD before the race. Maybe I just wasn't the target market.
it's usually stuff which obviously fails to sell. Sticky , fusty old museli bars in weird flavours, miniscule bags of peanuts, all not far off their sell by date.
Best though was the Edinburgh half a couple of years ago - nice big tin of Green and Blacks chocolate covered shortbread
. The year later the recession must have hit as it was a bottle of water and some flyers!
Would be happy to do without, although the bags do allow identificication of fellow participants on the bus home!
Worst is the usual carrier bag full of leaflets plus a manky energy gel. I gave it away to a friend before he did a 15 mile run, he ate it at around 10 miles and instantly regretted it
On the other hand, Ive had some really good prizes, the best I'd say was the black rucksack from Brass Monkey half this year. I've used it loads, for taking clean kit to other races, keeping my swimming stuff in, overnight stays etc..... Not really keen on t-shirts as I never wear them, they just stay in the plastic. Had a few mugs instead of t-shirts, which is a much better idea IMO. Oh, and at this year's Redcar half got a one of those cotton bag for life thingies, handy to fold up and put in my bag for if I get any random shopping items
As much as I'm not keen on GNR, their goody bags are usually pretty decent (although for the price you pay to do it they should be!) - mini shower gels, deodorants, space blankets that can be kept for winter races, bottle of lucozade. Things you can actually use post-run!
Did the Sefton Park Big Fun Run and have to admit it was an aexcellent goody bag with a variety of stuff.
The problem was the refreshing moisturising face cream sample for a well known brand which I duly used straight away.. .to discover within 24 hours as the skin peeled off my excrutiatingly itchy face that I was allergic to it....It was like chemical sunburn!
I got half a banana and a packet of out of date mints after my first 10 miler a couple of years ago.
Although, I run so slowly, they could have been in date when we set off...
I would have thought after a run it's the yeast thing you want, a bottle of water would be better.
Adidas 5k yesterday had thee cranberry sauce jar too! Must be a job lot of them laying around somewhere!
Other weird contents were a booklet about household cleaning tips and a box of breakfast cereals.
There was some useful stuff in there too like a bottle of Lucozade, bottle of water and an apple, mini can of deodrant and an adidas T-shirt.