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A global community of runner's

Hi y'all, Well today my long run turned into something really fun and special. According to schedule I had to run 13km but since I had accepted the Runkeeper Global5K challenge I also had to do a 5km. So I decided to break up the run and stop my app at the 5k point and restart it again to log the other 8k. And so I did. Now there is something oddly satisfying about running a virtual event with people from all over the world. It started out with the updates I received featuring charts of participants per country. When the Netherlands dropped to 4th place I couldn't believe it. How can a country that small with about 17 million people in it host the biggest running event in the WORLD known as the Dam-tot-damloop...even beating the NYC marathon but drop to 4th place in the virtual world? So I got busy tweeting & facebooking trying to motivate people to actually join in and than I got more excited too. Just looking up the hastag #Global5K and using it myself was so much f