Jon Dale

Amy finishes her first half marathon

So this is a little off topic for my blog...but I'm really proud...and its my blog so I can do what I like.

My wife Amy just completed the Country Music Half Marathon in Nashville.  Six months ago she was watching PBS and saw a NOVA special about a group of non-athletes who trained for the Boston Marathon.  She was so inspired by this that she decided she wanted to run a marathon. 

Amy started a training program and here we are less than six months later in Nashville.  She finished in 3 hours, 12 minutes.  This was 20 seconds per mile under her training pace!      

Here's a video of her crossing the finish line.  Needless to say I was in tears.

She's got another half marathon planned in a few months in Colorado Springs and she's already registered for the full marathon at the Rock and Roll Marathon in San Antonio in November.

I'm proud of you Amy!

   

Finally...a facebook app that's useful

As much as I see the social value of flying sheep, endless quizzes, pirates vs. ninjas and comparing myself to all of my friends I have to admit I've not seen much reason to spend time on facebook.  That is until now.  TypePad has just launched a new facebook app called BlogIt.  BlogIt allows you to update your status with the main microblogging sites (Twitter, Pownce, etc.) and post to all your blogs (including blogger, WordPress, VOX, LiveJournal, and of course multiple TypePad accounts) all from one simple and easy to use facebook app.

I'm writing this post from within facebook and my blog is being updated and at the same time my facebook mini-feed and twitter accounts are being updated as well.

The idea behind BlogIt is to bring the social aspects of tools like facebook to bloggers...we'll see if it works.