Zen and the Art of Speedskating

Today is the 3-year anniversary of starting this blog. It also happens to be my 500th blog post.

Wow…..

The blog now has 900-1000 visitors a day right now, and there have been 3,203 comments in the 3 years. This website will easily crack a half-million page views this year. There were over 1,000 incoming links last year from all over the world.

The total video views, when the YouTube, Hipcast, and the quicktime I host are all added together, its about 140,000+ views.

Wow…

Thanks so much to everyone who reads, and yes, this means !!!you!!! sitting at your computer screen!

Even if I’ve never met you, or had an opportunity to say thanks in person or via email.

My deepest thanks!

I never intended to create something like this. I just wrote & photographed what interested me, and the world showed up.

Last night I was in the hotel lobby, and a very sweet Norwegian speedskater comes up to me and she says “I voted for the trim, short beard, keep up the great website”.

When I was registering for the races here, the German man working the registration table said:

“You are Andrew Love? Yes? I am Danielle Anschutz’s husband, and I was Jenny Wolf’s manager, we like your website & your youtube videos very much.”

(Danielle Anschutz is an Olympic medalist, and Jenny Wolf just skated the women’s 500m world record. These are some of Germany’s best)

Creating something that people enjoy has been tremendously fulfilling. This website is a lot of work, the bandwidth alone costs me $350 a year (and I will need more soon) but when work is something you have a passion for, it’s a joy, when you can touch people, & share something with folks all over the world, it’s so worth it.

Thanks everyone!

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