Facebook landmark

There have been a few landmark's recently. The fund breaking through £2,500 was the one I reported last week.

I'm now pleased to report another landmark of a slightly different kind. This one is not significant in a financial sense but from an awareness and promotional point of view it very much is. At the time of writing, there are now over 1,000 members in the Run Geordie Run Facebook group. It's great to have this merry band of people on board. Through Facebook, I'm able to send a message to all of them every now and again with information on progress being made in training and such like. It's also great to read the messages of support that are sent and recorded in the group's forum (or "wall" as it's known in Facebook terms). I don't think I've fully realised the potential of Facebook yet, or Twitter for that matter where I also have a presence. Hopefully, this will become more apparent over the coming months. But for now, it's great to have such a large number of supporters.

Facebook group membership growing!

It's quite difficult sometimes to gauge the outside interest in this run and the various ramblings that go with it.  At the height of last year's run I was getting 1000's of hits on this website (and of course £1000's in sponsorship for St Benedict's Hospice!).  I'm still getting between 50-100 hits per day which is great! 

What is really pleasing though, is the number of people joining the Geordie running across the USA group on Facebook.   Thanks to a few good folk spreading the word, the number of members is up to 101!  That group, just like the planning for this run, is in it's infancy.  It's great to know that there's at least 101 people out there taking an interest in my efforts!