Posts Tagged ‘Lance Armstrong’

Tweet For Your Chance to Ride in a Team Car at the Amgen Tour

TOCCalling all cycling enthusiasts! Enter for your chance to ride in a Team Type 1 car at the Amgen Tour of California this Sunday, May 16. VSP Vision Care along with Transitions will each be sponsoring a cycling team this year, Team Type 1 and Transitions-Garmin. But before the race, we’re asking our twitter followers to help get the word out about us, the race and our teams!

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Team Type 1 Professional Men's Team

All our followers that mention @VSPVisionCare, @Transitions and Amgen Tour of California will be entered into a drawing for a chance to ride in Team Type 1’s car during Stage 1 of the race, a VIP pass for the beginning of Stage 1 and a VIP pass for the end of Stage 1. The twitter contest begins today and will run until Saturday, May 15. The more you mention us, the more times your name will be entered into the drawing. Ready, get set, Twitter!

Also, come visit us in Downtown Sacramento on Sunday at the Vision Village, located in front of the State Capitol (9th and Capitol). In additional to VSP giveaway items, our social media followers can enter to win exclusive prizes including a Cat Eye Single Shot Plus rechargeable safety headlight and a water-resistant Cat Eye Wrist Mounted Computer featuring a heart rate monitor, calorie tracker, clock, stopwatch and more!

Be sure to follow @VSPVisionCare, @Transitions and @TeamType1 on Twitter for updates on the race! VSP will also be posting special highlights on our Facebook account.

Editors Note:
About Team Type 1 and VSP Vision Care

Team Type 1 is a group of athletes living with diabetes. The team includes professional race teams, a triathlon team and a development team. Team Type 1 strives to instill hope and inspiration for people around the world affected by diabetes. VSP® Vision Care is proud to be their exclusive eyecare and eyewear provider.

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A surprise visitor during free day with VSP Vision Care!

Last week in San Francisco, Exploratorium guests were invited to peer into the science of seeing with VSP Vision Care. During an Exploratorium Free Wednesday on December 2nd, kids and families had the opportunity to tour SeeZar, one of the VSP Mobile Eyes® clinics, Ask the VSP eye doctor, Jim Winnick, all sorts of questions (which animal has a brain that weighs less then its eye?), spin a prize wheel, and participate in intriguing, eyes-on activities inspired by the Exploratorium’s Seeing exhibit collection. As if all of this wasn’t enough fun for the day, we had one more surprise in store for everyone, a visit by San Francisco’s Kyle Rose, member of the Team Type 1 professional cycling team!

Guests had the opportunity to ask questions about diabetes, cycling and receive autographs and pictures with the local star during his last appearance stateside as he prepared to move to Paris, France, where he will be racing for the 2010 season.

Kyle Rose and Jill N.

Kyle interacted with the kids…”you get to ride bikes for a job??” “Do you ride bikes with Lance Armstrong?” “I have a purple bike…but it’s broke.” “I bet you need really good eyes to see where you are going.” “Have you crashed before?” (OK, this last question was actually me. And yes, he just finished healing from a gnarly crash where he was clipped by another rider, flipped over his handlebars into a ditch and broke multiple ribs!) Read more »