Droid commercial, I just ran 3 miles in 34 minutes, eat my dust

hmmm... that was a loop around green lake and through upper woodland! I used to run that 4 times a week in hs but not in 34 minutes...

Way to go Droid. Putting mediocrity on a pedestal. Dean K needs to attach one to his fuel belt so he can make an official attempt at the record for most miles run at 11:03/mile pace.

Who runs with their f*cking droid phone anyway?

hahaha hilarious when we realized that it didn't even calculate the pace right

gotta buy wrote:

Way to go Droid. Putting mediocrity on a pedestal. Dean K needs to attach one to his fuel belt so he can make an official attempt at the record for most miles run at 11:03/mile pace.

So we wouldn't be bitching if someone put that they ran 3.4 miles in 15 minutes?

latently homosexual teenager wrote:

Who runs with their f*cking droid phone anyway?

Crossfitters, vibram wearers, and Oregon fans. Clearly.

Bee Esss wrote:

My father is old and fat, and he runs an hour on the treadmill at 6 mph every other day easily...

I'm calling bs on that one.

Older and Wider wrote:

the seventh seal wrote:

That's Greenlake and Lower woodland park. That loop in the commercial is more like 4 miles though. So if that droid actually measured it at 3.4 then it really sucks.

No, the Droid is right, your just slower than you think you are.

No, the Droid is WRONG. I just traced the course on mapmyrun.com and it says it's 4.12 miles (don't forget to include the little starting jaunt near linden ave to get to Greenlake, it does the loop and then stops at the greenlake point near where aurora and greenlake drive intersect).

Close as I could find on MMR

http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/wa/seattle/1134836261

This makes the commercial even funnier.

I did download it to check it our and it seems to be having trouble finding my location...

But the price is right...

yo you guys need to chill with whether the loop is 3miles or 4+miles. i mean it's just graphic design/video production trying to look good.

Would the iphone have calculated it all correctly? Also what times would a typical iphone user/runner have for a training run?

I get this feeling a lot too

You are correct. Of the top 100 fastest engineers on our team, the slowest one runs a 15:26 5K. Most of us are in the 14:45-15:10 range. The fastest one is 14:26. Compare that to Google where their 5K race winner was 18:57.

Not only do we make the best phones in human history, but we also employ the fastest runners.

Apple HR

Yeah but the Apple folks won't let anyone else into their races.

I think if you get your jollys mocking someone and their 34 minute 3 miler or whatever the hell it was, you may want to think about getting a life. Its a TV commercial for God's sake.

I say congrats to that person for at least getting off their ass

JoeGarland wrote:

Yeah but the Apple folks won't let anyone else into their races.

Touche.

I've been to the holyland in Cupertino, there are a lot of lumpy Apple folks too, as you would expect.

awf wrote:

Close as I could find on MMR

http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/wa/seattle/1134836261

That's fairly close. Something around 4 miles.

The droid runner actually ran the inner path, probably a little shorter. The droid runner starts out up on Linden, so you've got to add that. Any runner starting there would have gone the opposite direction on Linden to 70, then to Aurora and across at the crosswalk between 68th and 70th.

Apple HR wrote:

You are correct. Of the top 100 fastest engineers on our team, the slowest one runs a 15:26 5K. Most of us are in the 14:45-15:10 range. The fastest one is 14:26. Compare that to Google where their 5K race winner was 18:57.

Not only do we make the best phones in human history, but we also employ the fastest runners.

Apple HR

In the Boston areas, Raytheon and HDO Sport have been known to have the best runners at the JP Morgan Corporate Challenges and such. Which companies have the fittest runners in general? Apple you say? (just curious as this may factor into my decision as to where id like to work)