The Farsighted Runner

The sole purpose of this website is to have an open space wherein I can muse about, discuss, provide insight into, and — most of all — share my experiences (and foibles) as a runner.

But I also have a day job. And today’s post was inspired in part by my budding career as a UX designer.

So although I want to restrict the use of this space to the topic of running, I’m going to have to beg my audience to forgive me for a bit of meandering.

It wasn’t until the beginning of this year that I finally got around to purchasing a smartphone*. Rather than gush unnecessarily, I will only say that I’ve honestly come to depend on it. But it’s also fun to play around with, too — on occasion, I’ve even used it to track my runs on BuddyRunner. My positive experiences with the phone and mobile web applications in general are no doubt influenced by the fact that I probably am still in the honeymoon phase of owning a Google Android G1. But, during the day I’m also working on designing a mobile web application so that makes me a little bit more than slightly interested in this stuff.

It’s also why one of my first orders of business was to make the Farsighted Runner mobile friendly.

To access the mobile version of this site simply type www.farsightedrunner.com into your mobile web browser. And, voila! — you can now experience the Farsighted Runner on the go.

Thanks to developer Alex King for providing the WordPress plug-in that made the mobile version of this site possible. To access his handy WordPress Mobile plug-in or others, visit his plug-in site.

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*This statement isn’t entirely true. But I refuse to think of my last phone as “smart”.