Ever since I fell in love with Dailymile a year ago, I’ve used it for logging my training, sharing advice with other runners, meeting new friends, and learning to love running more. Well, my roommate and friend,
Elizabeth C. has taken Dailymile’s motivating and easy to use interface out onto the cross country course.



Let’s face it, budget cuts have rippled throughout California’s foundation and schools have been feeling the sting for quite some time now. I have almost daily conversations with Elizabeth about how to be creative with the small budget she does have. She has a lot of goals for her kids on the XC team, but the most challenging one is to keep them having fun and engaged. When the team went to their first meet, Elizabeth sat down and decided to leverage some free tools online. I showed her Dailymile, and it was love at first sign-in. She created a group for the Balboa Cross Country team, had her kids sign up, and they’ve been using the site to motivate each other, post results from meets, share stories about running, and have a good time.

So who’s the lucky one here? These days I’m finding myself in conversations with other DMers (as we call ourselves) that go a bit like this:

Caleb:Don’t you guys love Dailymile?

Kathy:You know what’s great about it? It’s an online community of real people! You know there’s someone sweating their butt off on the other end.

Caleb:I love Dailymile. I really don’t think I would have run my sub-3 without some of the folks I’ve met there.

Daniel:Can I have some of that sub-3 love?

So there you have it. I’m not sure if Dailymile got lucky with all of us, or if all of us got lucky with Dailymile. I do know that we’re all marching towards better health and fitness together… and we’re doing it with the kick ass Balboa High School Cross Country Running Team. By the way, they had their last meet of the season yesterday and from what I hear, they kicked some butt. Give them some props if you have time! Balboa XC Group on DM.