Category: Leaving a trail for our son

All my personal posts 2008-2016.

Five-A-Day Guy

As I was saying yesterday, the 100-day challenge started April 1. By June, I was ready to stop writing five daily blog posts.

Seriously, can you imagine waking up early and sitting down to crank out five blog posts, seven days a week?

And when you’re done, go for a five mile run, breakfast, shower, and then go give speeches to change the world.

The good news, I’ve always been a morning person.

The bad news, I stopped doing 5-a-day. Stopped posting on the two lowest traffic blogs. Didn’t think it mattered.

GoDaddy website statistics quickly showed a web traffic decline.

And anyway, the 100-day goal had nearly been achieved.  But now a new experiment. If I restarted the five blog posts per day, would the numbers go up?

Five Blogs A Day?

It was never the intent to write five blogs every single day.   It just sort of happened. Seriously.

January 2008, purchased a dozen domain names.  Within a month, dozens more – .com  .net .org  .biz .info .us – ….it adds up quickly.

Only wrote 28 posts the entire year, mostly in December.

January 2009, a renewed resolve to “do something great”. But alas, Q1 showed pitiful results, both in posts and in traffic.  This led to the “100-day challenge” – write daily in the five main blogs.

Told my son, “If you want to be a good reader, you should read a lot.  If you want to be a good runner, you should run a lot.  If you want to be a good writer, you should write a lot”.

Now, it’s 150+ each month, or, about 2,000 per year. Crazy.

Steve Prefontaine & jeff noel

What do Steve Prefontaine and jeff noel have in common?

By the way, Steve Prefontaine was America’s running prodigy in the early 1970’s.  He held every American running record from 2,000 – 10,000 meters.  Every single one.

As a high schooler, “Pre” was featured on the cover on Sports Illustrated magazine.

Pre was coached by Bill Bowerman, legendary University of Oregon head Track coach and co-founder of a little company, Nike. Bowerman was the 1972 Olympic Track & Field head coach.

In 1972, at Munich, Pre was our best hope for a medal in the 5,000 meters.

Pre was a rebel who just so happened to also be a runner.  He reminds me of someone else.  Hmmm, now who might that be?

Do You Blog?

Some do.  Some don’t.  Some want to.  Some don’t.

There are people who understand the advantages to having a web presence. And there are those that don’t – and they fall into two probable groups:

  1. Those wanting to, but don’t know how to start
  2. Those not wanting to, for a variety of reasons

Same thing happened with cell phones and computers.  Now look at how common those things are.

Are  ya with me?  Have a GREAT day.  It’s up to you.  Carpe diem, jeff 🙂

What about 200k?

Yeah, 200,000 is also a big number.  In fact, it’s the number that will make half-a-million possible.

Three is a small number.

What makes this so distracting is that the small number and the huge number are related. And I can’t get that out of my head.

Know how to keep a curious, easily distracted person in suspense (oh look, shiny)?

I’ll tell you tomorrow.  🙂