Migration

Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 05:41 Written by The Virtual Runner Monday, 23 February 2009 12:44

Further to my last very short post, I have decided to move my blog to thevirtualrunner.org where I already have my site and log my runs etc.

One of the reasons I wasn’t using WordPress in the past was because I just couldn’t find a template I was happy with and simple.  This one is definitely simple and the html code was easy to amend in the backend to make it more my own.

I’ve imported all my blog posts from Blogger/Blogspot and I’ve just got to tidy a couple of things up with regards to categories and tags for previous posts.

I’m also happy that I won’t have any more formatting issues like I did with blogspot.  Every time I posted something it kept spacing all the paragraphs either too far apart or not at all.  I would have to update the post about 4 or 5 times just to fix it all.

No real pain today after my long run yesterday.  I’ve got a bit of a niggle in my right hip (butt cheek) and that is my re-occuring sciatic problem that I get from time to time.  Some extensive stretching will resolve it.

No running today and no push ups either, however on Tuesday I will begin day three of week two of the 100 push ups training.  Actually, I started on Week 4 of the actual program.

I got the idea from the Chocolate Runner’s Blog but he hasn’t mentioned it in quite a while.  Perhaps he’s given up?

Word Pressed!

Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 08:25 Written by The Virtual Runner Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:03

Last night I had the bright witty idea that I would use WordPress to publish my blog and host it on my own site. Unfortunately, this didn’t go to plan and late last night I scrapped the idea and deleted it all from my host server.

It was just too fiddly! It allowed me to import all my previous posts from Blogger, however it changed tags to categories and also messed around with the fonts of the posts. There was no way to change all the posts in bulk and fix the font issue and I wasn’t going to go through each one individually.

I’ll have to look into it a bit more or see if there are other ready-made scripts besides WordPress that would do the trick. And, to tell you the truth, their choice of templates available on the internet for WordPress was kind of limited.

So, things will remain as they are for now. In the future I may change it all over and host it on my domain name at thevirtualrunner.org.

I’m off to running club at the track this evening for the first time in a couple of weeks. Let’s hope the weather holds up!