Category: Running
September 21, 2005
2005 Philadelphia Distance Run: 2,560th place
I ran the Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia Distance Run Half-Marathon this past Sunday. My chip time was 1:50:31. I couldn’t hold off Olympic bronze medalist Deena Kastor as she broke the American half-marathon record with a time of 1:07:53. (Of course I never even saw her, so I guess I didn’t stand much chance.) It was a gorgeous morning, and a… 
August 2, 2005
Google Maps Pedometer
People are doing really cool stuff with the Goole Maps API and one of the most useful things I’ve found (besides the amazing mashup with Craigslist) is the GMap Pedometer. It allows you to click out a path and tells you the distance. Not only will it give you the distance in miles or kilometers, but it also calculates the…
May 1, 2005
2005 Broad Street Run: 2,377th Place
Just got the official results from this morning’s 2005 Philly Broad Street Run. My chip time from crossing the start to finish was 1:19:36, exactly two minutes slower than last year. I thought I did pretty good given my really poor preparation this year. (By the way, that’s 2,377th out of 12,050.) The conditions for the race were kind of…
November 18, 2004
Running Made Us Human
The New York Times has a good summary of a Nature cover story that suggests humans’ distance running ability has defined our physical evolution. Endurance running, unique to humans among primates and uncommon in all mammals other than dogs, horses and hyenas, apparently evolved at least two million years ago and probably enabled human ancestors to hunt and scavenge for…