My new years resolution is to get mine up and running! Once I do the URL will be dadontherun.com if it isn't taken.

The long term goal is to have my normal blog, day to day happening with my running and weight lifting, weight loss, etc.... Then what I really really want to happen is to be able to get a review portion going for things that will make a parents life easier with any sort of exercising.

I enjoy running blogs a lot. There's one called "shut up and run" that I have followed for awhile. I have gotten into reading them lately and even started one of my own this year (shameless self promotion: it is linked at the bottom of my signature). I planned to start it this year mostly to post race reports as I had planned on doing one HM each month and qualifying for Half Fanatics, as well as running 9 NYRR races to qualify for the 2015 NYC Marathon and thought it would be fun to post in a place other than just this forum so friends and family who were interested could read them.

I did a very quick scan through the list, and by my count there are 47 blogs by women, 2 by men, and one where I couldn't determine a gender.  I may have miscounted by one or two, but I found it interesting that the vast majority of the blogs are from women.  Is blogging really that much of a female thing?

Not quite 50 in that list. Several were listed twice like Shut Up and Run. The blogs also seem to reflect, as expected since it's a readers poll, the type of runner who is more likely to read blogs. I didn't see a single blog listed written by a competitive or high level runner, yet I know there are some out there.

Not quite 50 in that list. Several were listed twice like Shut Up and Run. The blogs also seem to reflect, as expected since it's a readers poll, the type of runner who is more likely to read blogs. I didn't see a single blog listed written by a competitive or high level runner, yet I know there are some out there.

George check this girls Blog out. She seems pretty competitive to me. http://fueledbylolz.com She is currently in the running to run Napa Valley. She is a high mileage runner and her PR's are nothing to sneeze at.  I like to read blogs like this because they are inspiring. Her back story is great too. She was a competitive swimmer turned runner in college and has many injuries throughout but has always comeback.

MTA: Her marathon time is not under 3 hours "yet" but I believe that that was her first marathon ever.

I blog occasionally at a local racing site called tristateracer.com.  I don't do it regularly and my topics are quite varied.  I have blogged about running with Joanne, about running with my kids, about good races and bad races, about being a race director, about training, and other things.  It's kind of fun to put some extended musings into writing on occasion.  A couple of examples.

Here's my most recent entry:

Message to Resolutioners

Here were my thoughts after Boston

Boston