A Passion for Running

The poor, poor members of the CRN (writing) team – they’ve had to put up with an endless stream of emails where I go on and on and on about all the cool stuff we’re building over at completerunning.

Something Jeanne has learned very well (and that even I have only recently come to understand) is that I only have two gears – full out and dead stop.

I am definitely a manic-depressive sort of character when it comes to my passions and work. I go through periods where I am inexaustible. Periods where I am up till 2:00 a.m. night after night. Periods where I have to keep a notebook so I don’t lose all of the ideas that flow into my mind in wave after wave of creative nirvana. Periods where noone can keep up to me. These periods generally last for a month or so and then…

…it all comes crashing down and I am utterly useless.

Then, I rest up (sometimes for as much as a month), rinse and repeat.

When it comes to non-running stuff, I am not a marathoner – I do not know pacing.

And I’m ok with that – it’s mostly nice to have figured out how “I am”.

But I imagine it must be hard to be around me. If that last statement rings a bell (Jeanne?), I apologize.

As the Scorpion said to the frog, “It’s in my nature“.

Some day soon, I will start talking about running again. I just needed to get this off my chest.

For those of you who don’t know, I am one tiny part of the dynamic team over at CRN. In addition to the great writing the team does, now is a good time to visit us because of the numerous enhancements and additions we’ve made:

1. A new and much improved runner focused race calendar
2. Great new ways to promote your running blog
3. Quite a few improvements to the Running Blog Family Directory
4. A brand new forum
5. And lots of widgety/gadgety type things for your blog or website.

Ok, the info-mercial is now over. We now return you back to our regularly scheduled program.

Aaron and I are excited about stuff we’ve got going on at completerunning. First, we thought long and hard (okay, it took all of 5 seconds) on a new mission statement and this is what we came up with:

We love our new mission which, when we think about it, is really not so new at all. We’ve just formalized it into some fancy words that have been guiding what we’ve been doing all along.

Along with the new statement, we did a complete overhaul of the home page. It’s now powered by WordPress and we’re quite happy about how it is coming along. On the CR home page, you’ll find a growing information resource, a place to find cool running stuff, and the hub of our domain. You can even do a google search for everything we have to offer (including all of the completerunning blogs) from there. It’s finally becoming what a home page should be so please stop by, let us know what you think and tell us if there is anything you’d like to see added!

Oh, and make sure you tell your friends and families about the home page. It’s a great place for people to get gift ideas for that special runner in their lives.

Please fire me off a note if you are have been blocked by my uber-comment spam fighting system.

Here’s my email address: mark at completerunning dot com