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The Run Down

Wendy — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:10:56 +0000

I started running back in mid-November of last year. It wasn't my idea initially and I had my reservations about starting up because we were heading into cold, wet, wintry season. We started the Learn to Run clinic through the local Running Room store. The weather, true to prediction, was crappy. We ran in the wind, rain and in some cases the snow, 3, sometimes 4 times a week. We finished the Learn to Run clinic, and then made the jump to the 10K clinic. And finally, almost 4 months to the day we started to run, we finished running our first 10K distance...followed by completing the Sun Run 10K run with 51,000 other people last Sunday.

Favorite iPhone apps of the moment, part 1 of 2

Wendy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:28:29 +0000

In the year and a bit that I've had my iPhone it's become pretty indispensible for me. I don't need to use an alarm clock anymore, Clock does it for me. I don't need to check my e-mail on a computer anymore, Mail does it for me. Maps acts as a great backup GPS device if my Magellan GPS unit doesn't cut it (or if I forgot it at home) :) Alongside the standard iPhone apps I've been trying out a bunch of apps from the Apps Store. I'm a "if I don't get it in 5 or 10 minutes I'm getting rid of it" type of app user. So if something passes muster, and has stayed on the iPhone for a couple of months, it gets my stamp of approval.