For the past few years, Nike organizes the Nike+ Human Race – a 10k race where everyone in the world can run the same race at the same time.  All you need is Nike’s adapter that goes on your iPod and you’re in the race!  I think it’s an awesome concept and and am definitely running it this year.  What’s even cooler is that in big cities like New York City, there is an organized event where everyone can race together.  If you’re a social media runner in NYC or any other city, it would be awesome to meet up to train or run the event together!  If you’re in another city, why don’t you put together a Social Media Runners group for the event?  We could even get a little competition going – lowest average score WINS!  You game?

The Nike+ Human Race is on like Donkey Kong!  Let us know if you’ve signed up yet in the comments.

When do you like to run?  In the morning? During the day?  In the evening?

Have you experimented with how your mood, business, or productivity is affected by when you take your run?

Photo credit thomashawk

Well, I have a lot of ideas.  I like running.  I love meeting people.  I want to get better at running.  I want to meet more people.  What if I were to combine to two?  My idea for Social Media Runner is to develop a community for whose who participate in the online space and also love running.  Wouldn’t it be fun to create a “Craigslist” of runners?  My fantasy would be that you are traveling somewhere for work, or a conference, or to see family.  You want to go on a run.  Log onto SocialMediaRunners.com, find someone in that city, link up, run, talk, huff and puff, and develop yet another contact.  I think there is little difference between business and athletics (on a mental basis), and it would be awesome to combine the two.

Here’s where you come in

This is an open source project.  If it interests you, great!  Feel free to voice your ideas and see if we can create something together.  There are many communities out there – let’s create another one.

Some Things To Run With (No Pun Intended)

• Expand to different cities – have “city captains”.
• Local sponsors – are there local mom and pop shops that sell athletic gear?  We’d love to promote them
• National sponsors – that’d be cool
• Link to Twitter/Facebook (ie. when you sign up for SocialMediaRunners.com, find other Twitter friends who are also signed up).
• “Current location” function to let other runners see where you are.  In the same city?  Link up and take a run!

What next?

If you’d like to be involved in this project, drop me a note.  We can start forming something together.

Got a good running story where you met someone interesting?  Would love to hear about it!

Want to design a new logo for the site?  Go for it.

Feel the urge to tell your friends about Social Media Runners?  Rock on.

Hope to talk to you soon!

-Sarah