A milestone of sorts

A milestone of sorts
So today's post is a milestone of sorts and it's somewhat fitting that it comes on the weekend review post.  I started this blog waayyyy back in October shortly after I started school.  It began really as a musings and rantings and it wasn't done particularly regularly either.  There also wasn't a whole lot of substance I would go do something and then come on here and write about it.  There wasn't a whole lot to read and there wasn't a lot of people that did read.  I really had no clue what I was doing and I still really don't know quite what I'm doing but that's fine.

Fast forward 4 months and the blog has become a little bit more structured.  It's got a bit on our training (what this blog was originally for), a little product review, a little tech corner, some feature article of some sort and then a focus on a person.  It's actually kinda cool to watch that when I write a "cool" article such as the one on Why diets don't work a lot more people go and click on that link and read it.  Conversely when I write crappy articles very few of you guys read it (such as the training updates).  So I'm going to have to find a better way to write my training updates, maybe it'll be like a diary of what Jess and I did that week.  We'll give that a go.

So the reason why today's post is a milestone of sorts is that it's the 50th post that I've made on the website, and it's a big deal to me.  Jess has gotten gmail and I've given her the link so you should see posts from her too starting next week which is also exciting.  So a quick look back, we've had over 750 visitors to the site (Which may not seem like a lot but I think it's kinda big deal).  The bulk of the visitors come from Canada which isn't surprising.  Over a quarter of the visits have been from the states (I don't think I even have that many American friends, but thanks for reading guys).  Then apparently there's people from Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Denmark, Croatia, New Zealand, Russia, and the Ukraine.  Really don't know how those got there but kind of cool that it's a global ish blog in the smallest of senses.  What's really exciting for me is that over half the visitors use Mac (those who know me will know why I love that number so much, due to something in a past life).  But that's about it for stats, now onto the week in review post.

Week in Review
So sometimes I'll have posts that I think hmmm might be cool to write about but never really get around to and can't find enough info will probably get a blurb here.  It'll also be a summary of what I did get around to writing about in the week as well as what Jess puts on here too.  So without further ado, here's a week in review, some interesting tidbits from the interwebs and some random thoughts.

Posts this past week
Monday - New Mizuno Shoes
Tuesday - Pasta Making Fun
Wednesday - Why diets don't work
Thursday - Training Updates
Friday - Why we race

Interesting tidbits from the web
Probikekit is still having their new years sale so not only does stuff cost MUCH less then it would at your LBS.  There's also a extra 10% code BONUS10 that will get you even more off.  So as much of a fan as I am of buying local, I won't if it costs me twice as much.

Ray Maker, author of an athletes blog has a giveaway contest going on over at his blog right now so go check it out and see if what's up for grabs interests you.

Random Notes
Cycling season has started again with the TDU, which means it's back to being able to read reall racing news for the next...... 10 ish months.  That's super exciting because I've found a sport that I follow even more closely than I did F1.  It probably owes to the fact that I can actually partake in a sport similar to these athletes, albeit at a MUCH lower level, but still fun nonetheless.

Whoever said that Winter will SUCK more than usual has been absolutely right.  Calgary has been stuck in this arctic bubble for the past..... week or so and it's been absolutely freezing.  I'm actually kinda looking forward to temperatures that do not feel like minus thirty something for the entire day.

So with that it's the end of this post, now it's time to go and churn out 25 k.