It's Where I Run

1. Motivation - The little Nike+ device is a huge motivation. Just having my SportBand on makes me want to be better! 
2. Community - Just like "It's Where I Run" and many other sites intend to build a following or a community, Nike+ does so as well. And they are very good at it! Once you are a Nike+ user you can join Challenges (like the ones I've created) and "Trash Talk." It builds your character (as long as your "trash talk" is all in good, competitive fun) and builds the online Nike+ community. You belong. 
3. Goals - Nike+ gives you a way and a reason to make and achieve goals. You can decide whatever goal you want to achieve and then create a Challenge to work towards/achieve that goal. You'll never want to give up! 
4. Passion - Nike has Passion. We can see it through Nike+. I believe that if you have Passion anything is possible. When I find something like Nike+ that gives me more passion, I adopt it! It's as simple as that!
   

I hope you have fun with this - I know I will!

So what exactly is "It's Where I Run?"

I have connected with so many people worldwide in the past few months with the Nike Human Race. For me, the experience was incredible. It was amazing to see how different we all are & how diverse a group we were. Yet, we all had two things in common: Passion & Running. I was well aware of the running routes I would do daily. I was even well aware of some running routes others did. But 99% of the routes people did, I could not even imagine!

And so I wondered, "What if I had to go to Connecticut for a weekend? Where would I run? What would I see? What would be the most fun route?" And so on and so on - so many things came in and out of my head.

I thus fell onto the idea, "It's Where I Run." Running will virtually connect us all because running and our passion for health/fitness will connect us all, no matter where in the world we are. We can build an online, virtual community where we share our runs with each other and build a database of runs so that if and when I go to Connecticut (or anywhere else in the world for that matter) for a weekend I can come here and find a run and/or runs that others have done in Connecticut.

My hope is that each person's run I "feature" on my Blog, will contain some, most or all of the following:

• The actual running route
• Approximate or exact distance
• Country, state, city, location of where this run is
• Pictures of the route - taken while you are running
• Time of the year
• Climate
• Recommendation (s) for route - thumbs up, thumbs down, indifferent, etc.?
• Suggestion (s) (ex. Not suggested after dark, watch out for deer)
• Tips
• Anything else you think is relevant and/or facts about the place/fun things, etc.
• Pictures - to capture the "setting." (Pictures tell stories!)

Finally, this will be a place for INSPIRATION, MOTIVATION and DEDICATION! If you were a Pied Piper, you know that I believe those three words day-in and day-out.

I will set up Nike+ Challenges to get us moving, keep us going and ensure we stay inspired - motivated - dedicated!

I have three keys to success: "One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing."

WELCOME!