Virtual Reality
One of the great things about running is meeting other runners and making new friends. I have been lucky to meet a lot of great people via the Las Vegas Marathon message board, and the Nike+ forums and challenges. Last December, I met one of my “virtual friends” while we were both vacationing in Hawaii. We ran a 5K race together. A few days later, I met other friends from the Las Vegas Marathon message board at “The Great Santa Run”, where we dressed in Santa costumes and tried to set a Guinness record. In March we took a trip to Orange County, where I got to meet and run with yet another online friend. It is great to know that no matter where I go, I might be able to meet up with one or more of my online friends to go for a run.
The one place I have trouble finding friends to run with is at home. This weekend i had the opportunity to meet some of my online friends from the Nike+ forums at Green Lake. It was totally worth the drive to Seattle to get to meet “Monk_monkey” and Paul Merca. Getting to run around Green Lake was the icing on the cake!
If only I could meet a few Snohomish runners!
May 9th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Hey Diva–My pleasure!
BTW, if Monk’s reading this, that’s an awesome t-shirt!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Look at two of my favorite runners go…
Looking good ladies!
May 10th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Diva,
It was so fun meeting you! I think Paul did a great job with our action shot, our feet aren’t even touching the ground. That’s how cool we are.
We’ll get together for a race soon, I’m sure! A 2:05 finish at Seafair is totally doable! Train for hills!
~Monk
May 10th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
I just realized something…your feet & legs are synchronized!
May 10th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I noticed that too Paul. It’s no surprise, Monk and I are always in step with each other. We were neck and neck in the “Race for your city” challenge, and now we are both really close to 1000 Nike+ miles.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
The article’s out…just got my copy this evening!
BTW, the photo above is the one we used for the article!
Thanks again!
June 1st, 2007 at 5:42 am
Although it will be tough to make it to Snohomish on weeknights, perhaps sometime we can meet up for a weekend run. The only caveat is I’m training for the marathon, so every other weekend I’m doing a really long run. But those are interspersed with 6-7 milers, so let me know if you’re up for that. And I’m always up for running Greenlake (we live just 2 blocks away, after all!) In fact, you’ll have to check out my blog soon for photos of my Greenlake run (it’s an idea I got from another blogging friend where you take photos along your favorite route).
June 1st, 2007 at 9:57 am
I would love to come down and run with you at Green Lake! I checked out your marathon schedule. I see you have an 8 mile Saturday coming up soon. I think I could join you for that. Let me know if that works for you, and we can coordinate the details by e-mail!
June 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
[...] With so many opportunities to run with so many great people, it would be tempting to say my week couldn’t get any better, but that would be wrong. On Wednesday, I got an e-mail from Nike, inviting me to a Nike+ Super User’s Summit at their Beaverton headquarters. I am happy to report that Monk_Monkey (see Virtual Reality post), will be joining me there, along with several other runners I have met online through Nike+ challenges, but never in person. I’m sure that will lead to a very long post in July! Permalink [...]