This is it! The giveaway finale for this year! Thanks to all who have added input to help in the shaping of this blog as I enter a 6th year doing this. It is hard to believe it has been that long! I actually just checked to see how many posts that is and see that I am actually closing in on 3,000 posts over the last 5 years! That might not sound like a lot if you are doing this full-time, but I have not a full-time blogger so that is a lot for me!
Update: All winners were randomly selected and e-mailed. I will have a post later with all the winners and their comments. Thanks so much to everyone who entered!
Giveaway Finale! Win 15,000 Hyatt Points, AA Upgrade, Garmin GPS Watch, and Much More!
Anyway, here we are with the last one and I am changing things up a bit – you can comment once today and once tomorrow! That means you can have 2 comments on this blog post over the next 2 days to count as 2 entries!
How To Enter!
Here is a brief recap of the rules and how this will work:
- Leave a comment below to enter for this post
- One comment per day – but this giveaway will run for 2 days so that is 2 comments!
- New Time! This giveaway closes at 11:59PM PT tomorrow  (12/18/2016)
- There will be one winner selected for each prize
- The winners will be contacted in order of their random selection for their pick of the prizes for that day
- Winners will be selected via Random.org
- You must reply to my winning e-mail within 24 hours or I will contact the next person on the list
- You can earn a bonus entry by following me on Twitter and tweeting about this giveaway using the hashtag #RwMGiveaway
- Only entrants in the US will be eligible and you must be 18 to comment
- All decisions are made by Running with Miles and are final
Here are the Giveaway Items!
Here is what is on the giveaway block for today:
- 15,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points (courtesy of Hyatt)
- American Airlines’ Upgrade Certificate
- Amazon Kindle Fire 7″
- Garmin Vivosmart Activity Tracker + HR
- Garmin Forerunner 230 GPS watch
- $25 Amazon Gift Card
- SPIbelt (check out the belts on this page – the winner will get to select his/her choice)
To me, I think the biggest, best prize today is the 15,000 Hyatt points! That will get you a free night up to category 4 (and 3 free nights at Category 1) while also giving you a lot of flexibility for your own award bookings.
Another valuable new item today is the Garmin Forerunner 230 GPS watch. This is one of their newer GPS watches and I have heard some great things about it. It could be yours!
What to comment on?Â
For the finale, I leave it up to you! I do want to thank you for your feedback in helping me try to provide better content, but today and tomorrow, the comments can be whatever you want – with the exception that this is a general audience blog and the comments must be clean.
Thanks to all of you for stopping by this little corner of the internet! Have a great weekend!
I appreciate the site and the emails.
Hi Charlie,
Bonjour from New Caledonia- thank you for providing all great information through this blog. I look forward to use it here, where travel deals and bookings are not so easy to come by. Wish to hear more from you !
i sure can use those Hyatt Points
Thanks for offering these holiday giveaways! I’d be happy with any of the prizes.
Awesome giveaway! Thanks 🙂
This is one epic finale. Thanks for putting together such an awesome giveaway
Thanks for the giveaway. Happy Holidays to all.
Hyatt points would make for a nice early Christmas present
Thanks for the informative posts!
Need Hyatt points for the silly 25 night stay in Jan & Feb! Happy Holidays!
Thank you for all your hard work in providing us info on deals, races and flights.
Great giveaway Charlie!
Great giveaway, thank you, happy holidays
Thanks for the giveaway!
Great giveaway! Hope to win!
Great tips, great tweets, great giveaways!
Thanks for all of the great info!
Thanks for the giveaways! Keep up the great blogging throughout the year and happy holidays!
Hoping for some Christmas magic!
Awesome giveaway 🙂 Happy holidays!
Thanks!
I like turtles
YaY!
I love the website. Very informative. Thanks for all you do.
Nice giveaway gifts!
Would love any of the prizes.
Thank you, Charlie. In a world where the value of points is on the decrease, your posts turn the tide in the other direction. We appreciate it.
Love the blog. Thanks for the opportunity!
Going to Japan and saving for Tokyo Park Hyatt…could be an big help! Enjoy your blog. Marylin
As a fellow runner and miles junkie, thanks for putting this together!
awesome giveaway!
Would love to win!
Great prizes for the Holidays! And good work on the blog!
Happy Holidays!
Those Hyatt Points are awesome. Thanks Hyatt and Thanks Charlie for your great blog.
Thank you for the prizes.
Happy holidays!
Thanks for the chance for some great giveaways!
Thank you for the info and the prizes.
Happy travels to everyone.
Great giveaway again at a great blog! Happy holidays!
Thank you for all the good information.
Thanks for doing this and keep up the good work.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Need to start running again. Thanks for inspiration with your logo. Hyatt the best but love to win any prize. thanks
Wonderful info and great giveaway. What more can you want
I love your blog. Thanks for sharing all the awesome offers.
Love reading the blog. Thank you!
Thanks for a great blog that gives great info to this community!
Amazing offer.
Amazing offer. I visit this blog everyday.
15000 Hyatt points are no joke – Happy Holidays!
This has been great. Thanks! Keep up the great work with the blog!
Great giveaways!
Excellent giveaway. For the future, it might be awesome to have a section for “free miles/points” offers. Also, if you could provide some analysis of the return percentage of points/miles for a given promo, it would really help us understand how good the promo is.
Thanks so much for the giveaway! Really enjoy the blog!
Wowie Gazowie! What nice gifts. Thanks so much!
Great giveaway! I like traveling for races so I appreciate the blog!
Please let me win!
Happy holidays!
Fingers crossed. Thanks
Thanks for the opportunity and continued good luck with the blog!
Congratulations!
I appreciate the site.
Happy snowpocalypse, stay warm up North
Great site, always helpful tips. Hope I win the Hyatt miles!!
Thanks for the giveaways.
Happy holidays!
Thank you for the great giveaway! I’d love to use those points for a trip to Seattle!
All the prizes sound great! Happy Holidays!
Wow! 15k Hyatt points would be nice!
Please disregard second comment. I wasn’t reading carefully!
Thanks for the giveaway. Merry Christmas!
Im going for two! Hope to win those Hyatt points. Thank you for the generous contest Charles
Thanks for the opportunity to win some cool stuff
Thanks again for such wonderful gifts
Thank you for running this giveaway! Keep up the great work with the blog/website!
What a wonderful finale! I’ve avidly read your column as a runner myself, and it’s be great to win the Hyatt points as I’ll be running the NYC marsthon as a charity runner. But the other items would be helpful, too! Stephanie
Thank you for combining fitness with the world of travel.
Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the great content!
Thanks!
Fingers crossed for some holiday luck!
Happy holidays!
Great giveaway! Happy holidays to all.
The gps watch sounds awesome, and Hyatt points are great too. Thanks for all the good posts over the years…..
Who has two thumbs and wants to win??
Merry Christmas Charlie and thanks.
Great site! Thanks for the opportunity and all the great information.
Congratulations on 5 years! Have a wonder holiday!
Would love to win any of the giveaways especially Hyatt points! Happy Holidays!
I enjoy traveling and running too. Cheers to a great 2017!
Happy Holidays! Thanks for the blog and giveaways.
Any of the prizes would be great!
Thank you!
Always like Hyatt points!
It’s great showing us how to use points and miles better.
Thanks for the giveaway. happy holiday
Thank you for running this contest.
Great giveaway! Hope to win!
Happy Holidays!!!
Thanks a lot for running this giveaway!
Thanks a lot and happy holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy travels in the New Year!
Thanks for the Giveaway
Thanks for the great blog. Keep all the great tips coming.
Thanks for the informative views, and Happy Holidays.
Happy holidays!
Run like you stole something. And time it with your Garmin.
Is it a SWU upgrade cert?
I would like to see ideas for finding high value business (or first class) flights on One World airlines (not AA) @ around 10 cents/mile to help meet the onerous EQD requirement (it was bad enough AA decimated earning RDMs).
Try posting panoramic or 360 degree photos!
Great giveaway(s) Thanks a lot!!!!
Thanks for doing what you do!
Great blog- thanks for running the giveaway!
Thank you for your site.
Happy anniversary and thanks for all the giveaway!
Great blog! Thanks for all informative posts. Happy holidays.
I might start running if I win anything. Thanks!!!
Happy Holidays and thanks for taking the time to share all the info and tips you do as its helped me a lot and I continue to learn !!!
Thanks for the great giveaway. Love to read about options outside of Chase (5/24) where great redemptions still exist for us newbies!
hyatt points please
thanks a bunch for doing this
Thank you!
thanks for all the work you put into the site!
Thanks for the giveaways and of course all the advice throughout the year!
Happy Holidays and thanks for the great giveaway.
Well thanks for a nice lil sweepstakes. Love to win something right before XMAS.
Great giveaway; thanks for sharing this holiday season. Fingers crossed!
I love this site, it has been quite helpful in many ways
Wow, this post is worth commenting on! You’ve definitely got the right content, keep doing what you’re doing! Merry Christmas!
Happy holidays!
Thanks for the giveaway!
you are generous, santa! thanks. was thinking of you as i ran a nasty 33 degree rainy trail run for two hours today. invigorating!
All of the prizes sound wonderful!
Thanks for all the fun giveaways! Keep up the good work.
I just want to say thank you for doing such a kind thing, both the blog and the giveaway. The giveaway is pretty obviously a really nice thing to do at the holidays, but the blog is such a great help. I personally find points/cards/miles/etc. To be a completely unwieldy and unapproachable business. You make it much easier to decifer and get my head around, so thanks for your good work!
yes please
Wishing you & yours Happy Holidays!
Thanks for all the giveaways and of course, the great blog!
Thanks for the blog and the gifts
Great blog. Thanks for all the deals posted.
Good luck to all!
Your postings are always helpful and often not to be found anywhere else. And your giveaways are icing on the cake. Thanks vdery much.
Thanks for the giveaway and happy holidays!
Love the blog!
Congrats on making it five years!
Thanks for the giveaways! Good luck with your runs. I hung up my running shoes after completing 7 marathons but “once a runner, always a runner”, even if it is in one’s mind and attitude only. 🙂
Love the site!!!! I read it all the time!
Thanks for the awesome 5 days of giveaway. There are some people who are getting extra lucky for Christmas this year!
Happy and Healthy New Year!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the occasional giveaways, and most importantly thanks for the blog itself. Happy holidays to you, and to all the other readers!
Thanks for providing some great deals over the past few years – you’ve turned me on to some great opportunities to get good stuff cheap and/or to make a few bucks and some miles at the same time. That’s always helpful! Thanks again!
I’d love the Hyatt points, they are my favorite program by far. At least they were until this
World
of
Hyatt
Nonsense. Now I’m stuck figuring out who I want to move to next! Great site, thanks for the chance.
Those points will certainly make for a very fine Christmas present for the winner. Thank you for the giveaway. Merry Christmas!
Thanks for the great blog and giveaways.
Love the blog and excited about the giveaways! Merry Christmas!
Hyatt points will make my next stay a joy. Thx
Would love an opportunity to win!
Awesome giveaway! Thanks for all the help.
Why run when I can fly :)?
Thank you for inspiring me to combine two of the best activities around – running and travels
Those Hyatt points would come in handy, but I’m honestly curious about the belts…
would love the hyatt points and thanks for hosting this !!
Love the site & appreciate your good insight!
This is the winner right here, I can feel it! Love the blog!!
Love the prizes to go with the great advice!
Need to win
I’m in!
Thanks for a very informative blog!
Yes please!
Love what you’re doing!
Hope I’m not too late
Hi Charlie, always enjoyed your site and how you always try to inform the best deals for us!
Happy Holidays!
Nice site
Happy holidays everyone!
Wonderful way to end a great points and travel year
Keep it up in the new year
Could really use that upgrade. Thanks for the opportunity
I am excited about the giveaways! Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays.
Thank-you for the give away. Happy Holidays to all!
Merry Christmas! Great blog, too!
Thanks for the giveaway and for all the work you do!
Thanks for the chance
Merry XMAS! Looking forward to your blog for 2017.
Thanks for all your work keeping us apprised of opportunities
Great tips
#winning (i hope) Thanks for the great blog
Since I become your reader. I went from zero status to be today SPGP, HyattD, and oneworld emerald. Thank you for all the great tips and tricks to make my travel life much easier than ever. Hope boarding area continue to grow and shine!
Merry X Mas!
Thanks for the giveaways, and congrats on the blogiversary!
Happy anniversary
Enjoying the travel tips
Thanks Charlie. Happy holidays.
Those Hyatt points arw great, but boy, I could really use that SPI Belt!!!!
Hope your New Year is wonderful!
Awesome giveaway items! Thank you for offering these to your readers. Happy Holidays!
I love the site. Thanks for everything.
To many more points and miles.
Looks like my comments are back to back…… thanks again for all the giveaways and info.
To a great year ahead!
Thanks for a great blog! I could really use those Hyatt points.
Thank you so much for hosting these!!!
Awesome! Thanks for all the great Info over the years.
Love the blog. Look forward to reading more
Happy holidays!
Thanks for the great blog!
Thanks for the sweepstakes offer.
Sure would enjoy some some Hyatt points to match with my orphan collection.
I have a trip planned to Tokyo in April. The AA upgrades would make for an awesome flight, but the Hyatt points would allow me to stay in a very nice hotel. Thanks for the opportunity to enter the contest!
We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for saving us so much money on travel in 2016. My family is thankful.
love Hyatt points.
I like posts that show how you can get to a destination using certain CC combos. We have 4 kids so accumulating miles and points to travel takes quite a while!
Super giveaway! Thanks for putting this together and have a Happy 2017!
Great giveaway and I really enjoy your blog!
Thanks for all the valuable info in 2016… looking forward to more rewards and travel tips in the new year!
Thanks for doing this! Hope you have a great holiday season
Congrats!
Love the trip report pics!
Thanks!
Really really need Hyatt points 🙂
Happy anniversary!
Good luck everyone – thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for all the great giveaways!
What do runners do when they’re trying to remember something? They jog their memory!
Yippiee Ki Yay Hyatt Points!
Traveling is definitely what motivates me. I want to go so many places – and am thankful for the places I DO get to go. I wish it were easier to earn points for flying, but I do what I can.
Tweeted https://twitter.com/Giantsis/status/810612125483827200
Congrats and thanks for the tips
I’d really like to see a detailed analysis of the relative merit of accumulating points (e.g., Ultimate Rewards) vs. miles with an airline; ease of obtaining, redeeming, replenishing, benefits associate with each, etc.
Day 2 comment. Thanks for the great site!
Thanks!
Great blog … looking forward the be one winner
Those Hyatt points would be great for a fall ’17 honeymoon!!
Thanks for the great tips all year ’round
In the spirit of the Holidays … Ho, Ho Ho!
Thanks for all the hard work!
Thanks for the giveaways – Happy Holidays!
Mmmmmm, points!
yay!
throwing my hat in the ring
Thanks for the giveaway! Happy holidays!
Thanks again for the giveaway.
thanks for the great job here
Wow, that is a ton of Hyatt points.
Thank you for all of the hard work and research you do to help us travel junkies!
Super giveaway! Thanks!
Great site! Great advice! Thsnk for the opportunity to win!
Happy holidays
Awesome Giveaway! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Really enjoy all your work, and this is a great giveaway, thanks!
Sweet giveaway! Happy holidays
Awesome!
Hoping for some Hyatt points. All the best with the blog. Love reading all the updates.
Would love to win Hyatt points. Thanks n Happy holidays.
Great giveaway! Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Thanks for chance!
This is great!
Great blog!
Merry xmas!
Cool promo
Love this blog!
Charlie — hoping this time I can get the Hyatt!
Hyatt points and others are great… I think it’d be cool for you to share running routes around hotels you prefer.
Merry Christmas!!
Great giveaway Charlie!
Yes please enter me
Thanks Santa, appreciate the giveaway! Keep up the great work!
Thanks in advance for the prize!
Fun contest, and thanks for the great posts throughout the year. Cheers to 2017!
Happy anniversary and best wishes.
Would love to be able to put those Hyatt points toward my upcoming honeymoon!
Thanks for all of the tips this year. Happy holidays.
Thanks for all the insite.
Thanks for the great posts!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Keep the giveaways coming!
Thank you so much for the give away. I learned a lot from your blog and we are going to the Big Island Hawaii next year! All four of us! Hyatt points took care of all the airfare and we are used Marriott points for the hotel stay. I am looking forward to read more from your blog next year!
There are so many comments here, I’m sure it’s unlikely I’ll win (as per my usual luck ;). But here goes….
I need those Hyatt points, thanks
Woohoo Garmin all the way!
Thanks for the giveaways.
thanks for all the useful info.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I’ve wanted a Forerunner for a while!
Thanks for the giveaways. Good luck with your runs!
Thanks for the giveaway and a happy holidays to everyone!
Have a wonderful holiday!
Thanks again for the giveaway Charles. Happy holidays!
Great blog. Good luck!
Love your blog, keep up the good work!
Enjoy the blog a lot, great giveaway too! Happy holidays, everybody!
Fingers, toes, and everything else that can be crossed have been crossed.
Happy holidays everyone!
Pick me! Pick me!
Day two, is this my lucky day? Probably not seeing as it’s been a bad year for me, but maybe this drawing will be the beginning of a better next year!
Great job and could really use 15k Hyatt.
It’s almost time! Did I win? How about now?
Can’t wait to see what’s next for the new year with you and all the travel blogs.
I hope i will win!
Please let me win so my boyfriend and I can go visit a dying friend in Frankfurt!
Awesome giveaway!
Great finale. Happy Holidays to all!
happy holidays everyone!
Thanks for nice giveaway!
Happy holidays to all.
What a great giveaway for the holiday season!
when the articles include a personal side, its easier to relate to it. keep up the great work.
Thank you for this giveaway! Happy holidays.
Got married on 9/4/16 and had to postpone my wife and I’s honeymoon due to financial hardships. Your blog plus the extra miles may allow us a dream honeymoon!
Thanks for the blog and giveaway. Appreciate what you do
Thank you for all your helpful info and advice.
With such a crazy year, we’ll need all the deals we can get and places to go.
Great site. Thanks for the giveaways!
Happy holidays to you, your family and your staff!
Has it been that long since you started giving advise? How time flies
Going to win my first Hyatt points?
Thanks for your generosity, I do need those Hyatt points to keep my current ones from expiring!
Can I have a chance to win too? I just need some lucks for myself and my family. 🙂
I like this site, very informational without pushing credit cards in every post.
I enjoy the ‘stackable’ deals that you post.
Great site. Thanks for the giveaways!
such a giveaway
Thanks for offering these holiday giveaways
Enjoy your travel.
Thanks for the giveaway