Social Media Archives - A Veteran Runnah

Mar 06

I am Moving Back to Blogger

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Over the past couple of days and one pretty much sleepless night, I have had a lot of thinking to do about my blog A Veteran Runnah. Now my blog means a lot to me. I love writing and sharing my running life, along with occasional glimpses into other parts of my life you hope that you …

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Jan 21

Blogger Experiment is Over

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Reflection, Social Media

by hshawjr

All good things must come to an end and my experiment over at my Blogger – A Veteran Runnah blog is now over – a week earlier than I planned. Why? To be quite blunt, I had to make a choice and with the time/money that I have invested in this self-hosted WordPress.org blog, loosing …

Tags: A Veteran Runnah, Blogger, Blogging, Harold L. Shaw, Reflection, WordPress.org

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Jan 18

Taking Control of Social Media – Update

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Reflection, Social Media

by hshawjr

A while back I wrote Social Media Overload = Loosing Productivity and Enough Whining, What Did I Do About My Social Media Overload about being overwhelmed with social media and some of the things I was going to do about it. It has been about 3 weeks now and I wanted to given an update on …

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Jan 03

Enough Whining, What Did I Do About My Social Media Overload

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Reflection, Social Media

by hshawjr

Okay I whined about being overwhelmed by social media a while ago in my Social Media Overload post. One of the things that I learned from over 20 years in the military, if you are going to bitch about something, you also need to be able to find identify solutions. So what solutions have I found …

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Jan 03

Enough Whining, What Did I Do About My Social Media Overload

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Reflection, Social Media

by hshawjr

Tags: #fitfluential, A Veteran Runnah, balance, Harold L. Shaw, healthy-living, overload, Social media, whining

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Jan 01

My Running Goals for 2013

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Running, Social Media

by hshawjr

2012 is over, it was a great year - I have looked back and reflected on it already, but now it is time to look ahead. I chose this picture of my Grandchildren as my first image of 2013, they represent the future to me and that is what this post is all about - the future.

Today it is time to publish my goals for 2013, which I go back and see my progress on my monthly summaries. For me it works better to have them out here, where I have the knowledge that they are public and knowing that each month I have to review them.

Like I did last year I will break my goals into subjective and measurable ones.

Listen to the words of advice in my current tagline.

Be positive, be strong and keep smiling = great things can happen :-).

I will remember who I really am.

At times we all tend to get caught up things and lose track of who and what we are all about. This year I want to focus on remaining true to myself. It has taken me a very long time, but I am now very comfortable with who I have become. It is when I try to be something else that I start to stress myself out - I am not going to limit myself, but at the same time...well you know.

Re-read my The Real Me Please Stand Back-Up post every so often to keep my head out of the clouds and one foot in reality. This is who I really am and I when I stray away from this, that is when I stop smiling and put artificial pressure on myself to be something that I am not.

I enjoy having fun, laughing with others and at myself – in other words I have a personality, opinions and a life beyond the Internet. I am good at many things and suck at others - that strengths and weakness thing, and yes I make mistakes, but I learn from them.

No I am not usually the life of the party, but not all that boring either. I am that guy off to the side watching what is going on, is one of the first to leave and yes I am comfortable with myself when no one else is around. Some people might find me stand-offish, but actually it is more than a little shyness and preferring to wait for someone else to make the first move or comment. I don’t want to be considered a “bother” or annoying. I do need “me” time - more than others.

This year I just want to be me.

I will not sweat the small stuff:

Life is full of little annoyances that are more a pain in the butt than anything. I plan to use the “will it matter a year from now?” attitude a lot more often.

I will control my social media presence:

This is one of those things that has become a recurrent issue for me ever since 2008. It seems social media is a lot like mowing the lawn in summer, unless you continually trim it, it quickly becomes unmanageable and becomes a pain in the butt to cut back to where it is a lot easier to maintain. Seems like a good analogy to me and I do plan to do a better job of maintaining my social media presence to reasonable levels for me.

Improve my running form.

I am just going to run relaxed this year. Yes I still heel strike too much, but as long as I don’t overstride and run with a higher cadence, I think that I will survive with my current form.

Continue to participate in the social aspects of running.

Participate in my online running communities on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and maybe start using the new social side of the Garmin site, since that will be my Running Website for most of my data analysis.

Run in local races and stick around afterwards to talk and gab with other runners, see where the Central Maine Striders are headed (help where I can) and continue to search for that elusive running group.
My measurable 2013 Goals

Run at least 2,000 miles in 2013.

Run at least 300 days in 2103.

Run a 5K sub 20:00.
Run a 10K sub 45:00.
Run a Half Marathon sub 1:35:00.
Run the Marine Corps Marathon sub 3:30:00.
Weigh less than 155 pounds on my 55th birthday (I weighed in at 172 today) on 8/8/12 (two days after my birthday) I weighed 150. Met this goal.

Run at least 13 races in 2012.

Now it is time to look ahead. I purposely chose this picture of my Grandchildren as my first image of 2013, they represent the future to me and that is what this post is all about – the future. For me it works better to make my running goals public and then review them each …

Tags: #fitblog, #fitfluential, #runchat, New Year's Goals

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Dec 29

Social Media Overload and What I am Doing About It

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Reflection, Social Media

by hshawjr

Time – it is all about time and how you use it. This is not my usual running related post, but it is definitely related to healthy-living in today’s world. Social media is a time suck – in my mind there is no doubt about it. It isn’t a bad thing in and of itself, …

Tags: #fitblog, #fitfluential, #runchat, Harold L. Shaw, healthy-living, Running

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Running, Social Media

by hshawjr

I have some very exciting news, I am now a Swiftwick Blog Ambassador! It also means that I am having my first contest and am giving away, on behalf of Swiftwick, 10 pair of Swiftwick socks to the lucky winners. What does being a Swiftwick Blog Ambassador entail and why would I accept something like this? …