As a developer I mostly sit on my butt and do absolutely nothing but type, move my arms and occassionally get up to use the bathroom. I drink excessive amounts of coffee, energy drinks, candy, the works... typical developer right? Well i cant speak for us all, but I can definitely speak for myself. At one time I was actually extremely active in gymastics during college, played basketball, ran alot, worked out in the gym. Typical college stuff that I grew accustomed to when I was unemployed and the most important thing in my life was having fun and making sure my homework was done.

Now that I am pushing 31, life has changed quite a bit. I work, eat and sleep. Sometimes I just work and sleep forgetting to do the eating part (probably due to the execessive amounts of caffeine). I decided that this is a one way ticket to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.. and turned over a new leaf about 2 weeks ago. I started swimming and doing strength training, but I really wanted to start running. Funny thing happened was I was checking out the Degrafa website and saw the chart examples Joe Johnston did mimicing Nike+ charts. I was curious and went to Nike+ and realized they made shoes that could communicate to your iPod Touch or Nano. Being the tech savy dork I am, I went out and bought a pair of shoes this afternoon, got the Nike+ iPod Kit, bought some Nike DryFit apparell and ran my first 2.33 miles. Unfortunately, being the tech savy dork I am I forgot to turn on the workout option on my iPod before I started running and it only captured .85 miles of my workout... doohhhh!!!

Anyway, so I created one goal and one challenge, both are pretty much the same. I set a goal to run 50 miles in 4 weeks and I also setup a challenge for anyone who wants to join me to run 50 miles in 4 weeks or less. The person who runs 50 miles first, wins. You get nothing of course, except a virtual trophy and my personal congratulations via this blog!

So what are you waiting for!! Go get some cool shoes, the kit and lets go run! The Nike+ site has some really cool features where you can set goals for yourself, enter challenges that other people have created and a lot of other neat ideas all crammed into their site, which is running via Flash 9 :)