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4 Years of Blogging

by runeatrepeat on February 28, 2012

Today is my 4 year Blogaversary! In hindsight, I wish I would have started RER on Feb 29th 2008 so it would only be 1 year old, but wise beyond it’s years Winking smile

Wow! Looking back on the last 4 years is crazy – so much has changed in my life, on the blog, in the world. I started Run Eat Repeat as a ~~joke~~ way to document running and eating – an online food diary since all my paper notebooks were cluttering the back seat of my car.

I never expected it to turn into this ~~mess!~~ But, I’m happy and very very grateful that you read. I’m very loud and weird in person, so internet friends are my only hope.

I literally started RER during a break at work one day and came up with the name pretty quickly. I remember walking over to my friend Adriel’s desk and announcing my blog name (he’s below) for feedback. I checked that it wasn’t taken and Run Eat Repeat was born!

Since things were so different I thought I’d do a comparison of my life Then versus Now:

Then: I was a recruiter working in Torrance, CA. I loved my co-workers but didn’t like my job. (This is the kind of weird stuff we did at work…)

And we had a walking club! It ended up just being me and 3 of my guy friends who would make fun of my hat for 30 minutes while we walked at lunch.

Now: I’m a blogger and personal trainer. I have no co-workers for the blog job and it’s lonely so I bother my blog friends via text or gchat all day.

Then: I was dating some guy who lived in Orange County.

Now: I married that guy.

Then: I wanted to run my first marathon and use the blog to document training.

Now: I’ve run 4 marathons and want to do another!

Then: My blog posts had horrible pictures and even worse jokes.

Now: Nope. No change there.

In honor of my 4 year blogaversary I ran 4 miles this morning. I tried to do the same tempo run I did Thursday (my legs weren’t feeling a speed sesh).

4 Miles – Average Pace 8:18

Mile 1: 8:24
Mile 2: 7:55
Mile 3: 8:27
Mile 4: 8:25

Last week’s splits:

Mile 1: 8:05
Mile 2: 7:51
Mile 3: 8:39 (freeway overpass killed me)
Mile 4: 8:34

Breakfast was pumpkin pancakes.

And 4 glasses of iced coffee

Oh, and 4 orange segments (multiplied by 2).

I’m not going to repost my first blog post since it’s tragic. Plus, I didn’t get a camera for a while after starting the blog so the first few posts are boring. Aaand I just remembered (while looking back on old posts) I had to delete a ton of them when I moved to self hosted so most of my first few months of blogging have been destroyed. That’s probably for the best Smile