partyStrands is an interactive music discovery service for bars and partygoers. It helps people share tastes in music with friends, and to discover music with other partygoers, at bars, clubs, or groups in general.

This past weekend, the MyStrands sponsored “Team PartyStrands” took part in the great adventure that is the 197-mile Hood to Coast relay race. The 12 runners, each running an average of more than 16 miles, covered the distance from Oregon’s Mt. Hood to the coastal town of Seaside in just over 26 1/2 hours. As fun as it was challenging, the accomplishment called for equal measures of energy and enthusiasm combined with grace under pressure and a never-say-die attitude. Come to think of it, it wasn’t so different than a typical day at MyStrands where we give our all to unleashing the coolest products with the most innovative technology. Well, except that you don’t get as sore from developing software as from running over the coastal range.

So congrats to all of the PartyStrands runners with special thanks to our friends and teammates recruited from Amazon and fellow Corvallis software companies Cleverset and Alsea Geospatial!

Team partyStrands, with CEO Francisco J Martin far left, is nothing but confident before leaving from MyStrands’ Corvallis offices

Gerardo, MyStrands software engineer and runner extraordinnaire, taking time out for a pose in front of Mt. Hood at the start of the 2006 Hood to Coast relay.

(More pics here).