{"id":5761,"date":"2015-02-22T16:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=5761"},"modified":"2015-02-22T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T21:42:56","slug":"happy-2nd-birthday-stridebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2015\/happy-2nd-birthday-stridebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2nd Birthday Stridebox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5765 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?resize=300%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CAM06258\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?resize=1024%2C759&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06258.jpg?w=1875&amp;ssl=1 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was only a subscriber to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stridebox.com\">Stridebox <\/a>for a short time in their inaugural year, but they continue to impress and go the extra mile. \u00a0For the 2nd year in a row, I got a Happy Birthday box from them. \u00a0No, not my birthday&#8230; their birthday! \u00a0I wrote about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2014\/happy-birthday-stridebox\/\">birthday box<\/a> last year and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2013\/whats-in-your-stridebox\/\">one of the boxes<\/a> I got in their inaugural year.<\/p>\n<p>Stridebox was at the forefront of the monthly subscriber revolution. \u00a0At least in my eyes, now there are a lot of them from snack food to men&#8217;s clothing. \u00a0I originally signed up in early 2013 and enjoyed getting boxes for almost a year. \u00a0The boxes contained a variety of sample nutritional products and as time went on more actual products that were just starting out. \u00a0And it seems more Stridebox branded products as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-5763 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?resize=222%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CAM06256\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?resize=759%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?w=1518&amp;ssl=1 1518w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06256.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a> The Stridebox box is a great size for organizing and having around the house. Every box also comes with nice tissue paper wrapping, although not usually gold! And the handwritten (really?) cards are a nice touch! \u00a0This year&#8217;s birthday box had less nutrition and more products!<\/p>\n<p>From the top, clockwise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bandana thing<\/li>\n<li>Shoe mileage counter<\/li>\n<li>Stride lights that flash when they shake (so with every footstep of your shoe)<\/li>\n<li>Nuun Energy tablets<\/li>\n<li>Stickers<\/li>\n<li>Stridebox training log (nicely done, but who uses paper and pencil?)<\/li>\n<li>PR Bar<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5764\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?resize=300%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CAM06257\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?resize=1024%2C759&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/CAM06257.jpg?w=1875&amp;ssl=1 1875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is probably safe to say that this box is worth $15. \u00a0The question is more about is it $15 worth of stuff I would have bought on a monthly basis? \u00a0When I was running consistently and training for longer races I easily used all the nutrition products and some of \u00a0the other random ones. \u00a0Now that my mileage is way down I don&#8217;t go through nutrition products at the same rate.<\/p>\n<p>I would still recommend signing up for Stridebox. \u00a0If you haven&#8217;t why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was only a subscriber to Stridebox for a short time in their inaugural year, but they continue to impress and go the extra mile. \u00a0For the 2nd year in a row, I got a Happy Birthday box from them. \u00a0No, not my birthday&#8230; their birthday! \u00a0I wrote about their birthday box last year and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","category-product-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-1uV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5400,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2014\/happy-birthday-stridebox\/","url_meta":{"origin":5761,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Stridebox!!","author":"crossn81","date":"February 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Stridebox is celebrating their 1st birthday! 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