Practice Looms

So I coach this group on Wednesday mornings. The group is great. 10 or so runners all around the age of 35-45, trying to get in shape for a variety of Spring and Fall races. Waking up every Wednesday at 5:30am, not so great.

Coaching this crew is probably one of the most satisfying things I do all week, really. None of the crew (a few are pictured to the right) ran in college (except for one of my buddies who shows up once a month), but they all are really into running and getting into better shape. Enough so that they are there every week at 6am, beating me to the track, ready to roll.

Now I know 6am isn't that early for a lot of people. For me, though, it is. I usually get up around 7:30 to go for a run, so getting up 2 hours before that isn't too, too easy for me. Yeah, I know, I'm a wuss.

2 runs today.
5.5 miles solo in 41 mins

4 miles in 42:43 with Oscar and Oscars friend Lauren (Oscars longest run yet!)

9.5 miles - my achilles is still sore, but getting there.

x Farley

IPhone Apps and Running again

I don't have AT&T, therefore I don't have an IPhone. Kathy does, but I don't. I wish I had one, but I'm locked into Sprint for the next 2 years. I don't mind Sprint, and they are coming out with the "Palm Pre" an IPhone rip off, I'm pumped to get it, but still; it's no IPhone.

We are coming out with an App for your IPhone (an early mock up is displayed here) for the store. It is going to have information about sales, our events, fun runs, and locations. You could get all this information on the website, but if you've seen all the adds for Apps on TV, you can tell that seems to be where the market is going. We hope to have it out in March. It is going to be money.

In unrelated news, I decided to start blogging again because I feel like I had a real run today! Now that I'm running, I'll be back to writing daily (my blogging fans have been pining for it!!). It was good to be back: 6 miles solo around the Roosevelt Island, then another 7.7 miles with Cakes (his longest run yet!!). I also ran with Oscar (the other radio DJ I run with from the Big O and Dukes show) 2.6 miles easy.

16.3 miles total.

I'm back running. Another day in Paradise.

x Farley