Quadrathon 2.0; time for a facelift!

In this era of misspelt words that signify a whole website and one image that is supposed to portray everything that you stand for it seemed like the right time to give the blog a bit of a facelift. Blogger has, over the last few years, become much more updated and flexible and the look and feel of my site was mostly unchanged from when I started it back in 2007! Yes I am coming up for 5 years!

I have been playing around with a beta site that I use and after lots of tinkering I think I have a pretty good finished product, it’s a lot cleaner and I have gotten rid of a lot of the buttons and badges that have cluttered it up. It’s all subjective I know…damn I hate marketing, but if you have any feedback please let me know.

The other thing that has reappeared is the old podcast, three episodes in the last month have made it to the interwebs, I aim to use to keep track of my progress to Ironman Arizona next year and while there will should be more blogging than this year, (was it me or did a lot of people just take a bit of a hiatus?) the podcast will also serve as someone to put down my thoughts etc, you can check it by clicking the page tabs above.

PCTR Sycamore Canyon 50K Redux

Something for your long run this weekend?

This week has been spent, packing, packing and packing, my goodness we’ve accumulated a load of crap! Hence the lack of posts!

So to be a lazy blogger and at least post something in a week here you go…as you might know I have embarked on a little side departure with the Quadrathon Podcast. The last episode was recorded entirely while running the PCTR Sycamore Canyon 50k last weekend.

As you are probably aware my expectations for the race were to treat it as a long supported run and finish feeling good both physically and mentally; it was my penultimate long run before I start my taper for Leona Divide which is on April 21st.

Chances are you know the outcome but if you would like a little more of an insight into race day it might make for an interesting listen.

Enjoy…

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Don't touch that dial!

For those of you who listen to podcasts and have listened to Phedippidations you may have heard mention or even tuned into the Runners Round Table podcast. RRT is unique in as much as you can listen to it either live as it is recorded or download later to listen to at your leisure, there is also a live chat room that feeds into the recording. The round table element comes in a there are usually between five and tem people “at the table” discussing a specific topic; recent ones include; Disney Marathon and RunCastTV.

For people on Mountain and Pacific Time and all points west it becomes a bit tricky to participate due to the fact that it usually happens while everyone is at work (you know, that thing that allows you to buy new shoes, pay race fees and put your children through school!), so next week there is going to be a spin off from the West Coast and yours truly (that’s me!) is one of the hosts, my other co-horts from the world of blogging, podcasting and the new obsession Twitter(ing) will include: The Ultradad, KelownaGurl, erin337 and solorunner.

The show airs live at 8pm PST and will available for download some time thereafter.

To get to the show go to Talkshoe and look for the Runners Round Table, you don’t have to register to get into the chatroom but if you don’t you’ll just be a “guest” and we won't know who you are, you can ask questions and tell us what a fantastic (or not) job we’re doing!

Back issues if the Runner Round Table can be downloaded through iTunes from this link.

Talking of iTunes The Quadrathon Podcast has been approved by Apple and now has its own feed here which will allow you to put me on your iPod, if you’re reading this in a browser you can click on the player in the side bar and listen right now, Episode 2 is available and Episode 3 is coming soon. Show notes can be found here, feedback and comments etc are very welcome.

Hope to see you at the round table next week!

Branching out...

I’ve been pottering around with this idea for a few months now and only recently have I managed to get my act together and get on with it. So without any real fanfare my I introduce The Quad Cast, the Podcast spin-off from the blog. I figured with this being the 100 mile year and all that it might be fun to give it a whirl and document it in a different format.

This doesn’t mean that I am retiring from blogging here though, it’s going to be in addition to and I hope it goes some way to supplementing the photos and videos that I post.

It’s taken my a little time to get it all together, editing software, hosting sites, iTunes and the like all have their foibles to learn so hopefully while the first few episodes will be a bit rough it should start to polish up over time.

So if you have nothing better to do than listen to me drone on for half an hour you can find and download it from here. I am waiting for the iTunes feed to be reviewed but will post that when it’s approved.

Please post comments good bad or anything in between.

PS Thanks everyone for you messages of support to my last post and for those of you who are interested #15 was the lie; clearly most of you know me far to well!