A Passion for Running

I learned something the other day. I learned that my blog wasn’t sending as many visitors to your blog as it could be. Specifically, I learned that my blog had what is called no follow integrated in it’s comments.

Without getting too technical, no follow is a bit of coding created, in part, to deter comment spam. The bad news is that it’s had extremely limited success with that. The badder news is that it prevents search engines (google, yahoo etc) from following the link you leave in my comments, to your blog.

And why is that important? Well, because if you are hoping for new readers, you won’t get them via a search engine that would have found you crawling around in my blog. And, not to brag, but I’ve got search engines crawling around here constantly so you’ve been missing out.

I’d like to change that so I’ve installed a plugin that gets rid of the no follow thing.

My hope is that you will get more visitors because of this change.

Does all this make sense? Please leave me a comment if it doesn’t and I’ll do my best to explain.

So, Aaron and I have been so impressed with all the RBF meetups, we thought it logical to take things to the next level. He said is so well, I’m posting his invitation below.

OK, heres the poop. The first weekend of August (5th, 6th and 7th) is going to be the first RBF reunion. What does this mean? This means that we want the family to get together to celebrate the RBF and to further develope the great relationships we have begun. Basically we want to party together, run together, and have a great time.

After the weekend we want everyone to send their RBF reunion photos with a brief write-up sharing their experience. We will post all of these on the main site for the world to see.

You know what one of the most common phrases I’ve heard this past two years is?

“The RBF ROCKS”.

I see it all the time in posts, emails, comments and when chatting with you. And you’re right – the RBF does rock and now it’s gonna rock some more.

One day, people will say, “remember that 1st RBF reunion?” as we’re all gathered around a pasta primer with 5000 of our closest Running Blog Family members.

Wouldn’t that be the rock’n-ist?

The past two weeks have been phenomenal. I’ve been stacking up the miles quickly and am always ready to go again so soon after my runs.

It’ like I’m being compelled to run. I feel like Forest Gump – without the loss of his Jenny.

I’m serious. I want to run every day and I’m sitting here wanting to go for a second run today and I’ve had that feeling several times over the past week or two.

Have you ever felt that way?

I will get an running skirt challenge update done tonight (and will respond to your terrific comments/emails) but, just so you know, it looks like we are probably up by about 8 donations and are at about 50 total donations so far.

Thanks everyone!