Hipmunk – a quick review
Hipmunk is a website for searching flights that displays the results in a clever, intuitive format. . In my mind, it has the potential to be a key challenger to Kayak.com. Its biggest strengths are:
- A calendar-like layout that makes flight timings very easy to visualize.
- Color coding and airline branding of every flight segment to make multi-hop flights simple to understand and visualize.
- Quick sorting by various parameters such as “agony”, price, stops, departure time, arrival time, and duration(it’s instantaneous).
- Multiple searches can be run in tabs within one browser session. Cool!
- The website is fast, period. Switching between inline tabs or re-sorting by a new parameter is almost instantaneous.
What would be cool to add:
- Given the UI, an iPad app will be terrific.
- Better colors: the colors now work fine, but somewhat pleasing shades would make the experience delightful.
- Instead of having a “select” button at the beginning of every row, the price itself could be used as a link to select that flight.
- If there are just a few flights I want to compare, maybe the UI could allow me to “delete” certain flights from the screen just by clicking on them and hitting delete on my keyboard?
- In the longer term, it might not be a bad idea to consider building a facebook app to share stuff and strengthen customer loyalty and recall.
- Essentially, the site is functionally neat, and thinking about ways to increase stickiness will really help.
- Flight history visualization: given the strength and simplicity of the current visualization, it would be very cool to show all the flights I have taken over the past month in this format. This could also be a way to visuaally track frequent flyer miles.
Anger at Apple over flash: screenshot speaks for itself..
Startup learnings from Zynga
Learnings from Mark Pincus and Bing Gordon’s talk at the Entrepreneurial thought leaders series at Stanford:
- Don’t give up control of the company early or else you are effectively an employee of the investor.
- Can the company run fine on days when you aren’t in office at all? It should be able to..
- Identify and get better at what you are weak. (My corollary is: Instead of only thinking about why people are coming are using your product, think about why other customers aren’t using your products).
- Hire people one level below where they should be. They should have some humility, and not be too attached to titles.
- Don’t give yourself permission to fail. Essentially, as soon as you say: “this is pretty decent, good enough even if we don’t grow or get better”, you’ll start plateauing out.
- Don’t settle. Go for the double big back corner shot(do the hard thing if you can, rather than the least effort one).
- Prepare for technology transitions earlier than anyone else.
- Innovate on features not on titles(esp in reference to video games but might be applicable elsewhere).
- Building franchises early helped EA a lot.
- Test every configuration. Do a lot more tests.
- Measure every parameter change. Be obsessive on configs and tests.
- Go out and recruit amazing people.
- Identify a user frustration. Now think of the solution to it. The solution could be a not worth it idea, a worth it feature, or a totally worth it product.
- Build an Internet treasure(digital skyscrapers like Amazon, Google, Netflix). An Internet treasure is something without which life is now unimaginable.
- Use ghetto testing(like put a link to s feature you’re considering on your main page for a few days and see if people actually click on it. The link could lead to a survey with a promise to alert the user when it comes out).
- You have only so many bullets you can fire. Prioritize.
- Give me 5 words that describe what you’d Market if we do this feature. Now do Ghetto testing using the words( you can also use Google adwords to draw traffic for ghetto testing).
- Become a product manager. A PM is like the CEO for the products/feature s/he owns.
Kandisa
It’s early evening. I’m in my car, inching inch-by-inch, literally, on 101. It’s Rajeev Motwani’s memorial concert at Stanford tonight. Indian Ocean is performing. Of Kandisa fame?
The traffic jam doesn’t clear, but I eventually realize that only the right lanes are blocked. So I maneuver into the left lane and am soon speeding on the highway. Isn’t this common: you are in a line and you assume the line is as fast as it could possibly be – when it’s actually super slow. And then, if you actually go and look around, your perspective clears and you find another line that’s much faster. Nobody usually bothers looking around. Following the herd is human.
I arrive just in time for the 4th song, or so. This amphitheater is a hidden Stanford beauty. Its a huge open air amphitheater, with grass seats. The half moon is shining at an angle to the podium on this starry night. Indian Ocean is playing some of the most amazing music I have heard. The place is not even at half its capacity. The air is cool, and most people are swaying gently.
As I avoid the damp grass and sit down on the curb, a thought strikes me. This is how a memorial should be; I say to myself. Where a few hundred people lie lazily on the grass unhindered by lack of space, looking at the starry sky, and listen to Sufi music. The stage is difussed with soft colorful lights, gently changing color. Soon I’m transported; while I was working away on the nitty gritty of a product an hour ago, I’m now listening to a song Syrian Christians brought to India with them in 52 AD. Soft modulations in a deep earnest voice that sounds like craving. What a concert!
When the singer stops, he starts talking about his songwriter. “An interesting guy”, he says, “who likes to claim he’s a Sufi.” “But we’re actually Lufis”, he adds. Then pauses. “Sufis who haven’t been able to give up lust; tried and failed”. The mostly young crowd erupts in laughter. They’re probably thinking, “So would we, if we tried to Sufiize ourselves”.
That’s how a memorial should be; when people forget themselves, and drown in the splendor of beautiful music. When the end is a celebration of a life well lived.
3rd and 4th days of running 2009
I’m being somewhat lazy in updating my runnings logs and thoughts, but here they are. I did 2 other runs in the week of 03/15 – 03/22. I did a loop of the Stanford dish, and a 7.5 mile run in SF. Wake up call. I need to start getting serious about my runs.
The 7.5 mile run in SF was with 2 other friends, and I was left panting at every half mile. They’d wait, let me pass by, and then overtake me and wait again. A gap of no runs has seriously reduced my endurance..
SF is awesome for running. I totally and completely love it. We ran on Embarcadero for a while, until it curves and meets Marina. The views are literally stunning. Running through the hordes of people on pier 39 is quite fun. On the way back though, we ran up a lot, and we were all really tired at the end of the day. Soon after, we went out partying 
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Stanford dish remains one of my favoritest runs as well. My plan is actually to live for a month in SF, and see if I like it enough to move there. Its clearly a mecca for my running needs. Will I be able to put up with the moody weather there?
I tried to, but didn’t get into the Mount Washington Road Race. Now the big question is: should I register for the Pikes Peak Ascent and train like a madman? Pikes peak is much more gruesome and needs a really disciplined and tough training schedule. Should I pick up the gauntlet? Maybe I should register after I have shown by example that I deserve to register..
Day 2 of running, 2009
I did a short, but tiring run on Lake Anderson park yesterday. I had gone on a hike to big sur earlier in the week, so I wasn’t very high energy. The wind was particularly chilly.
I was thinking of 2 ideas/questions on this run:
1. How to do garbage collection in space. There is so much garbage(and growing) out there. How would one go about cleaning it up? Somehow pull them into the atmosphere and burn them up? Pack them in garbage bags and bring to Earth?
2. Maybe layoffs are a good thing in at least one sense, if you look at the bigger picture. The companies get to retain the best and most useful people, while the laidoff employees find jobs and work environments that are better suited for them? So Silicon valley would be like a soup, where companies and employees are each floating and they go and stick to one another, part, and then stick to someone else. Brownian motionish, with low frequency and high time lags..
When the economy picks up, good employment related websites should really pick speed!
Day 1 of running, 2009
Today I went running on the Anderson Lake Dam Park. I was almost dead and panting in the first quarter of a mile and began having serious doubts when I couldn’t even walk, much less run. But I kept up, and ended up doing 2 loops of the park . With many stops, but I ran as much as I could, and completed it. I’d call it a good start.
So today’s the first day of my running in 2009. Today’s also the last day before I begin my new job tomorrow. So its kind of symbolic, in a small way. Last year, after missing my pikes peak ascent due to illness, I was seriously unhappy. Add to that the unhappiness associated with a really nice girl dumping me, and you have 8 months of running-abstinence.
The amazing thing about the new company I’m joining is the people there. I interviewed there with about 10 people(yes!), and the thing that really struck me is the sheer intellectuality and coolness of the people. So even though I had about 7 other interviews in various stages(where’s the recession?), I had clearly fallen for this company.
Lake anderson is sheer beauty. It stretches for over 7 miles, I’m told. On a sunny weekend, its full of trucks and boats, but on a day like today, it was quiet. On the trail I saw only 1 family, thats it. Quiet, peaceful and serene.
The sun was setting as I finished my 2nd loop, and as I walked down the really steep trail to the picnic area and back home, the sky lit up red. Or the pale red, of sunset, that can make you peaceful. A fresh start is on the cards.
Enough is enough
For the past 2 days, I have been filled with outrage. Grief. Anger. People have been asking me if all is ok with my family. It’s not. It’s just a coincidence that none of my sisters or uncles or nephews was shot. What about the innocent Indians and foreigners who lost their sisters, fathers, kids? Why were they killed? Because they were at a railway station waiting for their trains? Or visiting India and staying at a hotel? Or because they were journalists waiting outside all night, trying to figure out what was going on inside a besieged, burning hotel with hundreds of people trapped inside?
As a nation, India seems to have an incredibly short memory. We keep getting attacked, and we keep forgetting it. That is good, in a way – we don’t let terrorists change our daily way of life. It’s also good for the government, whose incompetence in protecting the state is quickly forgotten. But what of innocent Indians who die? We let, by our government’s very inaction or lack of sufficient action, gruesome murders happen month after month, year after year. What was the Indian intelligence doing all this time? How did they have no idea that such an attack was impending? What is India, the “IT Superpower”, doing in terms of electronic surveillance of terrorists?
It looks to me like attacking India presents no more than a simple logistical problem to terrorists. They have been striking at random, whenever they wanted, wherever they wanted. Be it the Taj Mahal hotel, or the Victoria Terminus, or even the Indian parliament. They have struck successfully at all these locations, and many more. They have struck at weddings and killed scores of people. They have struck at pilgrims. They have attacked every conceivable target one could think of. What next?
Last night I saw PM Manmohan Singh reading from a pre-written speech condemning the attack. There was no ferocity, no anger in him. Just a subdued reading off a page. Where is the strong leader in him? A PhD is not enough to lead a country. What concrete steps has the defense minister decided to take to protect India? I’d like to know.
Think of your cousin, or your newborn daughter, or your elderly father, slaughtered by a terrorist tomorrow. Think of a prime minister mumbling from a paper. Think of a government so clueless that 9 hours after the attacks, “security forces on ground are still awaiting the arrival of NSG commandos”. Does the Indian Air Force have any planes? How many hours does it take to fly in from Delhi? Think of Maharashtra politicians whose priority is not to protect the state, but to ethnically cleanse it of “northeners”. Think of the NYC of India, being attacked over and over, and the state not being able to do anything about it.
The Indian public needs to know, whats happening? Whats being done to protect the country now? What has been done after the 93 blasts? What is the defense ministry going to do this time? We need answers.
Enough is enough.
13 – new horror movie
Devil works, a bunch of amateurs from ISM who made spectre, are back with 13. Nice job. Click here to go to their webpage to download the movie.
Back to running
After a brief haitus, during which I mostly ate delicious, unhealthy food, worked late and forgot running, I’m back.
Last Sunday, I went hiking with the MIT Club of Northern California, which was fun. I met a bunch of people, from teens to septugenarians, as one member puts it. The hike was to the Castle Rock State Park, just off skyline boulevard. Gorgeous views, and interesting chatter.
I was a little surprised to find my feet sore at the end of the day, because we had hiked only 6 miles with maybe 1000 feet of elevation gain. But then I haven’t been active for a little while and I guess thats the price to pay.
So in the coming days, there’ll be more blogging. I’m also thinking I might start one more blog, specifically focussed on development and technology and how simple things can be made better in developing countries. I have been thinking about that for a while and I guess the time has come to start it off. But before I actually write down the first blog post, I’m probably going to flesh out the details(in writing) of what I expect to blog about.
DP’s top 5
My top 5 list of technical books, of all time:
1. The C Programming Language, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
2. Introduction To Probability, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis
3. Signals and Systems, by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, with S. Hamid
4. Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein
5. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
iPhone blah blah..
I have been asked about the merits of buying an iPhone. Lets look at what’s bad with the iPhone:
1. Unlike blackberry, it has no physical keyboard. A friend thinks he might get RSI if he used the touchpad.
2. No bluetooth. Yes, you could use wireless(EDGE/3G/WiFi) to send stuff, or even plug the phone into a computer. But you don’t have the convenience of transferring photos from the phone to a computer in an Internet-less, cable-less environment, like a desert, right? (Actually I did see cellphone coverage while driving through Mojave desert last weekend. I was also taking pictures and uploading them to my facebook on the fly.) UPDATE: It has Bluetooth.
3. No office productivity tools such as word, excel, powerpoint yet. You can use google docs though.
4. No stylus(not that you need it..but), so someone who wants to write a grocery list can’t write it. Of course you could use Jott and just speak the list into the phone, which would then be transcribed into text(very accurately), or you could use any other of the tons of apps to record the list, but you won’t get the personal touch of seeing your handwriting on the grocery list.
Now whats good:
1. A software development platform that has allowed developers to quickly create applications and get paid for it. (Yes, I remember the frustrations of trying to build an application for an “advanced” Nokia phone, the N80. The API was almost laughable.) Applications are also really easy to install and use and pay(if its not one of the free apps). A lot of the apps are available for 99 cents. Thats not a typo!
The apps are amazing. If you doubt me, go try some. And then talk..
2. A UI and user experience that has none to match. Remember Motorola Razr? That super sleek phone that everyone bought because it was so pretty, for 400$! It was beautiful, with a UI that made people feel like shooting themselves or killing someone in frustration. My adviser reportedly threw it against his wall, or that was his wish..
The iPhone’s UI is amazing. With a good screen and pleasant design, reading on this screen is a pleasure. Tapping on an item is much more intuitive to me than taking a needle like stylus and poking the screen.
3. Location based services: the stuff of legend in the US research community is finally there in a product. I remember researchers beating their heads about why cellphones here didn’t have location based apps when it was so possible with existing technology. Well, Apple has pushed the carriers to allow that, and make money too. Marking a milestone for everyone, for consumers who can use a variety of new services, for the carriers who can make money from it, and from apple who has a growing market to innovate for and reap the profits.
4. I think its redundant to mention the sleekness of the iPhone, or its quick response UI, or its GPS capabilities, or the iPod that’s sitting inside. In my opinion, finally a cellphone is beginning to realise its capabilities in making life better, beyond email, SMS and phone calls.
So if you think about it, the iPhone is more of a ‘quality of life enricher’ phone, than a ‘raise the company’s bottomline’ phone. And I hope it stays and grows that way.
So to the critics of iPhone, let me say this. Consistency is a very fundamental human trait, as Robert Cialdini has famously discussed in Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. What this means is, if you get convinced by a convict to help him, you are going to defend him in discussions afterwards. Why? Because human nature is by default to be consistent with their past. So if you bought a certain phone(Razr), you’d most likely praise it when someone says something that challenges the phone’s capability. Because otherwise, it’d seem like you made a wrong decision and probably reflect poorly on you.
Sometimes a person who has a different phone reacts negatively(remember Hillary’s attack on Obama!) on hearing appreciation of the iPhone. 
Cialdini’s ‘consistency’ in action! Perhaps they start feeling that the implication is that their phone is bad, and they made a poor decision in buying it. I think thats a mistake. If you have a blackberry and are happy with it, stay with it. But attributing the iPhone’s popularity just to “good looks” and “crazy marketing campaigns” and “16 year olds’ fad” shows a lack of understanding of the subject in my opinion.
Which reminds me of a movie I saw recently that had a hot blonde who is an ambitious journalist. So someone happens to say to her: ‘hey, you are so lucky to be so beautiful’. And she says: ‘I don’t really know. When people look at me, they’re like: blonde, she must be stupid. And when I do something well, they say: oh, its not her work but her looks which are carrying her forth. So I never ever get credit or recognition for the work I do just because I am pretty’. I have seen some people talk about the iPhone similarly.
I have personally used the iPhone, the Nokia N80, Motorola Razr, the humble nokia 1100, and a huge motorola bricklike phone. I have borrowed friends’ blackberrys and palms and used them. For me personally, the iPhone is the best phone so far. And having entered the market, and brought out such a good product in a short time is a testimony to Apple and Steve Jobs. If I met Steve Jobs personally, I am unsure if I’d like him, because of his well known difficult personality, but he drives his company to great innovation, and thats what matters.
Competition
I don’t like competition. I have never been a big time competitor, and I have never enjoyed competing against others.
Inspiration is different. I was doing my usual hike on the Mission peak this morning and realized that I forgot to take my heart rate monitor or water. And I was thinking if I was overtaking enough people this morning. As I’ve said before, overtaking someone on an incline is a lot more fun than kissing a hot girl at a decline . But then I started stopping around and taking pictures with my new cool camera .
Well, I digress. The point is, when I’m inspired by something, which has happened a couple of times in my life, I have needed no competition or motivation. The inspiration itself is enough. Running well is an inspiration. Its enjoyable on the whole, though at times its painful. Thats what I should be focusing on, rather than worrying too much about how many old women I overtook.
Lemme flashback a bit. And forgive me for my overly academic obsessions. I used to be in a middle school where we usually had teachers come in for maybe 3 or 4 of the 7 periods everyday. They were not the best teachers in the country, but I realize now how utterly sincere they were and how hard they tried. Finishing the syllabus was never a priority. Making something understand was. But I was restless, seeking more. And so when I took the sainik school entrance, I cried on the bus on the way back. Crying is very unusual with me, because I usually just grit my teeth and decide to teach the difficulty a lesson. But this time I had worked really hard. Waking up at 4 am instead of 8 and studying before and after school. I had invested my life into it for a month, and I just couldn’t believe how badly I had done. I was passionate. I was obsessed. And I couldn’t accept I had failed.
Well it turned out differently. I was placed third, so I got in . Nice surprise. I cannot forget the feeling of accomplishment after I heard the news. I had tried really hard, thats why I loved it. I wouldn’t have enjoyed the success so much if I hadn’t been so inspired.
I took the JEE later in life. Actually getting into IIT wasn’t really so exciting, because I wanted to study astrophysics. Engineering held no charm for me. The exam did. The idea of clearing a really hard exam was just so inspiring. I had a lot of issues living in Delhi and getting sick almost every month from the unhygenic conditions, compared to the clean fresh environment I was used to. But in the last 4 months, I cranked up my gear and worked between 11-14 hours every single day. Essentially, I was studying throughout the day, like crazy. In the summer 45 celcius heat. I never regretted it. I never had second thoughts. I was inspired.
I had also concluded that 14 hours of work a day was my limit. I could somehow never push it to 15. And then I went to MIT, where I sometimes had 36 hours of nonstop work. Sitting on the same position on my bed programming and reprogramming over and over until it finally worked. I realized that the limits of humans are truly set only by their imagination. We’re far more capable than we ever think.
Coming back to the topic, I don’t think I needed motivation for any of these. Motivation is like saying: do this, so you can get that. Or, your life is wasted, if you don’t do this or that. I guess one needs motivation when one is trying to do something s/he isn’t really passionate about. Since it feels like a chore, you try to “motivate” yourself from time to time so that your productivity is acceptable and you feel ok. You’ll never feel the exhilaration of doing something awesome and exciting that way though. One has to follow the passionate path for that.
On pushing limits
As I was hiking up Mission peak this morning, an important realization came to me. After my marin headlands half marathon I had rested for a while before resuming running. My first run after that was on the Stanford dish. And it was a breeze. But after about a week the Stanford dish runs became as difficult as they used to be before the marin run. What happened?
My belief is that my body adjusted to the marin headlands run, which was tough for me. So the next time I went running, my body had kind of preparted itself for a “marin” run, so the stanford run was fairly easy. But when it only got the stanford level of exercise for a few days, my body realized that the “marin” run preparation was no longer needed and went back to its old ways.
The lesson is that one’s running cannot be the same every week. It has to vary(increase, unless you are post-run recovering). When you push yourself hard, your body’s ability elevates. You have to pick it up from there and take it higher. So every week one’s mileage must slowly increase, and so must the difficulty of the one “hard” run you do every week. Here’s what my current schedule looks like(just a typical example):
Sunday: long run
Monday: recovery
Tuesday: alternates
Wednesday: recovery
Thursday: tempo
Friday: recovery
Saturday: Rest and party!!
If you are unfamiliar with running lingo, alternate is running one minute sprints followed by 2-3 minutes of rest. Tempo is a fast run but not so fast that you have to stop. You try to run at a fast constant speed, for say 45 mins. Recovery are easy relaxed runs, maybe 30-40 mins. My Sunday long runs are usually about 10 miles, with a decent part of it on a steep hill. I also run my alternates and tempos on hills, but thats because I am preparing for a mountain marathon. There are many benefits of hill running, but you can follow the schedule above without running on hills.
As far as schedule is concerned, for me easing into a schedule works much better than jumping into one. If I decide that I’m going to follow a particular schedule(which I never do), and I don’t I feel guilty and discouraged and eventually do nothing. Instead of doing that, I just create a schedule and keep doing my running as usual. Over time I can see that I do some of the things in the schedule, though not in that order or that extent. So when I’m feeling energetic, I go ahead and push myself a bit to reach the schedule target. Eventually the number of things on the schedule that I’m doing increase and at one point I exceed the planned schedule.
I added 4 minutes to my Mission peak best round trip time of 1.30. Because I forgot to carry a powerbar and enough water. It was sweltering and I ran out of water towards the end. Lesson: if you plan to run for an hour, definitely carry a power bar. You need fuel.
Also friends, carb is not your enemy. People planning to lose weight often just forgo carb and try to work out like crazy. Well thats fine except that right after a workout your body needs carbs to quickly rebuild your muscles and bring you back from tiredness and hurt. A powerbar in the middle of a workout or right after(even 2 if your run is long) is just perfect. Just don’t eat the carb before you have done at least 30 mins of running. Make carb your ‘best fraaand”. Just don’t give your heart to it.
Speaking of giving one’s heart away, I fall in love with the sights everytime I am on mission peak. Its the kind where you keep falling more in love every single time you meet the person. Just an utterly blissful experience it is to look around and admire the curves and contours of the hills all around, with two sky blue lakes in the middle and Mount Diablo far away in the hazy distance.
I feel I tend to get shallow if I don’t run regularly. As I near the peak and the really steep incline starts, my mind becomes free and creative and I start getting high. All the worries and thoughts of life start floating clearly, as in a soup. From a cream soup, it becomes a minestrone and I get all my answers. Being close to nature restores me to my natural self and clears out the fake from the genuine in my life. Its something that has to be experienced to be understood.
With commencement coming up this Friday, I’ll probably do a run along the Charles that I once loved so much. It will be a nice pleasing ego boosting glory run in celebration..
Pikes Ascent
hmmm, I ^^really^^ don’t know what I was thinking.. In a moment of madness, I signed up for the Pikes Ascent. Frankly, I don’t recall doing anything as daunting since I took the JEE way back in ’99.
But then something I find exciting yet superhard really gets me excited. I hope I am not going to DNF this race. So whats so hard about Pikes?
Well its a somewhat different half marathon. The elevation gain over 13 miles is almost 8000 feet. Very steep! Mission peak gains 2000 feet over 3 miles. So Pikes is like taking 4 trips up Mission peak consecutively. With a slight difference, however. Pikes peak is at an elevation of 14000 feet. So by the time you reach at the top, you’re breathing in an air that has about 43% less oxygen.
Pikes is actually an experiment for me. It an excuse to get into better shape by training much harder. If I train as hard enough as I should, I know I’m going to be able to do it. The key point is consistency then. And training in simulated conditions.
My aim is to scale the peak in about 4:30. I am going to try to maintain a constant pace throughout the race. Of course the last 2 miles are going to be crazy, and I can’t do much about it except maybe do a few high altitude hikes/runs before the event.
The SF half marathon, which is about 2 weeks before Pikes, should be an easy run then, since I am going to train superhard before that . I’ll run the SF at an easy pace, mostly for the views and the spirit than for any PR. And I’m expecting a bunch of friends to join me so we’ll all run together probably..
The Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run and Summer Roundup Trail Run shuld both provide some high altitude training. They are held, like the Pikes, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. I need to start booking my plane tickets I guess 
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So my 2008 races are going to be:
Golden Gate Headlands Half Marathon – Apr 5 – DONE
Garden of the Gods 10 Mile Run – June 8
Summer Roundup Trail Run 12K – July 6
SF Half Marathon – Aug 3
Pikes Ascent – Aug 16
Tentative:
Boston Half Marathon – Oct 12
Honolulu Marathon – Dec 10
Meanwhile, Matt Carpenter, the record holder for the Pikes Ascent as well as marathon, is a really inspiring guy. He’s also written a couple of really good articles on running.
Now some nice Dean Karnazes quotes.
