She brought Shalane Flanagan to the marathon by inviting her to compete in a Road Runners 8K in 2008, then to ride in the women's pace car in 2009 so she could experience the marathon's atmosphere.
For a more detailed picture, you can enter food consumed and describe other activities that the devices are unable to capture.Many of the gizmos link directly to an online social network, inviting you to compete with friends.
But it was also the day that President Obama's campaign chose to put out a video appeal from Anna Wintour, the oh-so-fabulous editor in chief of Vogue magazine, inviting supporters to compete for a chance at a dinner with her, the Obamas and Sarah Jessica Parker in New York City.
When they open it they will find a glossy brief inviting them to compete for a marvellous assignment: the design of a $30m student centre that will contain the usual mix of meeting rooms, offices, shops and eateries but will serve also as a museum and a homage to the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a legendary modernist master who died in 1969 and whose teasing motto was "Less is more".
Ministers are also inviting organisations to compete to provide double the current amount of education given to those held in YOIs.
In 2003, the tradition was adopted by the girls who issued a Latin challenge to preparatory girls inviting them to compete at rounders.
Now, the Saatchi Gallery is opening its gates to the Internet's best GIF artisans, inviting them to compete for the Motion Photography Prize.
Towards the end of the Summer Term each year, Rhetoric boys issue a challenge, written in Latin, to the boys in preparatory at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall, inviting them to compete in a cricket match.
Yet its policy of inviting public operators to compete against private companies is half-hearted and deeply flawed, and will do nothing to address the fragmentation at the heart of the privatisation chaos.
The Oldsmobile division of General Motors is inviting three agencies to compete for creative responsibility on a new divisional campaign that will also be used for all individual vehicle advertising.
