This brings back memories of my marathon

2010 NYC Marathon Time Lapse from wnyc culture on Vimeo.


Here is the Camera she used. Totally cool website.

And here is the story of the runner.

Thanks Lynn

State of the goal: June, July and August

I haven't updated this blog on the quest to run 3 miles a day for a year.

So here is the update.

I failed to hit three miles a day in June (85 miles, with a goal of 90) and July (89.6 miles with a goal of 93). These were the first misses for a month this year. I crushed August (132.3 with a goal of 93) running more miles than I ever ran before.

The long and short of this is I'm still on track for 1095 miles for 2010. August 31st was the 243rd day of the year, so I needed to have run 729 miles. I had run 770.

I have a new goal

Sarah Palin apparently ran a sub 4 hour marathon, (another link) just barely, at 3:59:24.

I gotta beat her. If I do it this year, I'll be the same age as her. Could I do it at Detroit? Probably not.

Hey. I'm in the Detroit Free Press!

Last week Runkeeper retweeted Mark W Smith (@markdubya) of the Free Press who was looking for some RunKeeper users to interview:

I posted this tweet to him and he bit:

He called me later that day and interviewed m for about ten minutes. Later that week he called to set up a photo shoot. On Friday morning Andre Jackson came by and took some pictures of me and my iPhone (and Bo).

Then Today the Free Press dropped me on the front of Page D1

All and all, a fun exchange.

Huntington Woods runners, go west.

I did a run few days ago and RunKeeper recorded me crossing 696. Twice. The GPS was accurate. Here is the map:

The trick is that when the Feds built 696 they added two elevated parks to compensate Oak Park for land lost to the highway.

My advice to Huntington Woods runners, go west.

Inspired to run by a Runkeeper bug

One thing I hate about RunKeeper is how at the beginning of the month you get that down arrow that says "Lowest"

I just had one day, of coarse I'm not going to be over my worst month yet. And the more consistant you are the longer it takes to shed that arrow. My worst month is last June, so my lowest is 19 miles. But that it going to scroll off the page next month and then I'll have to clock 44 miles before getting rid of that Albatross.

May, another month in the bag