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Hello 2009 and New Years Resolutions

Scott Wegner — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:32:03 +0000

I’m a couple days late, but Happy New Years! 2008 was our inaugural year for automaticable, and it has been a huge success.

Let’s look back with some stats:

Total Posts: 147
Total Comments: 376
Total Visitors: 54,679
Number of Visiting Countries: 154
Number of Sites Linking Here: 364
Busiest Traffic Day: Sept. 21 (10,285 views)

Here are some of the most popular posts from our first year:

And as the New Year is upon us, I’d also like to make some personal goals for myself. I don’t believe in New Years resolutions, but I do have a few things I’d like to improve in the upcoming year:

Run More: Last year I started excersing and running regularly, and even did a half-marathon in the Fall. I’d like to keep it up, and push even harder this year. If all goes well, I’ll be running the Chicago Marathon with a friend later this year.
Study More: I’m coming up on my last semester as an undergraduate, but it really doesn’t end there for me. I just applied for graduate school, and hope to pursue a Masters in machine learning starting next Fall. I want to end this year strong, and get ready for harder classes and more research in graduate school.
Revive automaticable: You may have notices lulls in posting during our first year. This is mostly due to my own lack of time and motivation, but I’d like to fix that in 2009. Brian has already alluded to a few changes we are planning in the site layout, and there’s a few other things we have planned as well. Stay tuned.

These are my goals for 2009. Have you made any for yourself? And as we begin a new year for automaticable, what would you like to see more of on the blog? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

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Running Update: Kyle Owes me a Six Pack

Scott Wegner — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:16:58 +0000

Good news folks: I’ve been keeping up with the crazy running showdown going on between Kyle and myself, and it looks like I’ve earned my first six pack! I think Kyle’s legs may have fallen off or some other catastrophe, because he hasn’t run in almost a month. That’s good, because we still have almost three weeks of fierce, beer-driven competition left.

Oh, I’ve also created a new page dedicated to the long-distance running battle. Now you can keep tabs on our progress run-by-run until the very end. I’ve logged almost 20 miles so far, but I’m going to up the ante and strive to bring my total to 50 miles by the end of the competition, July 25th. Think I can do it? We’ll see. Think Kyle can keep up? No chance.

[ Running Showdown ]

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A Long Distance Workout Program…Oh, and Beer

Kyle Wegner — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:31:47 +0000

A few weeks back Scott posted about his summer workout program. I have also been trying to work out more, as a full time job of sitting in front of a computer has done wonders for my figure. As brothers, we have been sharing a common trait with our workout plans: we lack motivation. Because we don’t have workout partners or at the very least someone else around to peer pressure us to actually get out and run, it has been really easy to find excuses not to go.

Those days are now gone. Scott came up with a brilliant idea: motivate each other, long distance, through a drinking game. We are going on vacation together at the end of July, and whoever runs less owes the other one beer. How much beer, exactly? One beer for every 2 miles one runs more than the other. We have about 8 weeks until vacation, so if one of us falls behind, that could add up to a LOT of beer.

We created a worksheet using Google Docs where we will be tracking how much running we’ve done and subsequently how much beer is currently owed. You can follow along with our progress by clicking here watching the spreadsheet below. As you can see from the picture above, we haven’t actually started running a whole lot yet, but at least I am in the lead! Free beer, here I come!

Edit: With a little Google Documents magic, now you can watch our progress via the spreadsheet below. Cheer on your favorite in the comments!

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Summer Workout Plan

Scott Wegner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:10:33 +0000

The weather is finally starting to turn here in Illinois and we’re feeling the effects of Spring. I brought my bike out of hibernation, and I’m finding excuses to spend more and more time outside. I’ve also started running whenever I get the chance, and it’s been great so far. I want to keep running and working out over summer while the weather’s nice, so I’ve been putting together something of a “workout plan”. Here’s the deal:

I’d like to work out four times a week, starting easy and gradually increasing the workout week-by-week. Rather than guaging my runs by distance, I’d like to time them, and incrementally increase the time as I go on. Weather permitting, it’ll go as follows:

Monday: Run
Wednesday: Swim
Thursday: Run
Saturday: Bike

We have a pretty nice pool here, so I’d like to get in a little swimming, when I can. Also, I enjoy biking, so I threw that in there as well. We have about 15 weeks in summer. I’ll be starting out with 20-minute workouts, and increase by 2 minutes every week. That means by the end of summer I should be doing 50-minute workouts, which is a good goal for me.

I’m posting this here mostly because hitting your goals is easier when you write it down, and tell others about it. Is anybody else running this summer? Do you have a workout plan? Share it here, we’ll start an online running club.

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