A Passion for Running

All five of you regular readers have probably been wondering that. Don’t worry, A Passion for Running isn’t goin’ anywhere.

For some time I’ve wanted to do more than I’ve been doing here. I’ve wanted to try my hand at being more informative and more opinionated (if that’s possible!) but in a more structured way. CRN is going to provide that opportunity in spades.

The focus at CRN will not ruin this blog. In fact, I’m really excited about A Passion for Running because there will be a clear separation between the things I’ve been seeking, and some things I’ve wanted to do/do more of here. And what are those things? hmmm …

1. Getting back to a clear focus on my running.
2. Less peddling of … stuff. If you read this blog, you know what the ‘stuff’ has been. That’s not to say I no longer believe in the stuff, it’s just that there will be better places to peddle it.
3. A place to talk about non-running stuff. I’m going to talk more freely about the things in life besides running that interest me. Don’t ask me why I haven’t felt fully at ease doing that here (I don’t know the answer), but now I will.

I’m excited!
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Go to CRN on Monday, August 27th to see my 1st ‘heavy’ article which will be called, Do You Need to be Taught How to Run?

I have to admit, I’ve never thought of us so strongly in these terms.

Have you ever sat down in front of your monitor with writer’s block?

The desire to write is there but nothing’s coming out. I’m thinking this is a result of being on vacation, and then getting sick.

My own problem aside, I have a very exciting writing tool to share with you. It’s a unique program called WriteRoom:

WriteRoom is a stripped down word processor with one unusual, wonderfully freeing difference. WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Walk into WriteRoom and your busy computer life fades away. The distractions of e-mail, the web, and your thousand desktop icons are gone. Only you and your text remain. This is a place where work gets done and procrastination has no place.

WriteRoom turns your entire monitor into one big black screen with a green cursor. I can’t do this justice but when you open it up, it’s…compelling.

Oh, WriteRoom is for Macs but the author also created a version called DarkRoom for you Windows/PC folks.

Give it a try!

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.