Now the other one.
Stop moving.
Ahhhhh stop moving.
There we go.
Today we're venturing out onto the frozen tundra with these two clowns and we're going
to do something different.
We're gonna talk about...oh and she gonna poop, that's her wanting to poop, perfect
timing, just wonderful.
So with it being the start of 2016, I haven't done a whole lot of entries onto the channel
over the past few weeks I wanted to do something a little bit different.
It's the first blog that I've ever done on the channel, it might be the last depending
on how it goes.
HEEL
But I figured I would give you a bit of a summary on what happened over 2015.
How the channel went.
Where we're going over 2016 because there's gonna be a lot of big changes coming up for
me and the channel starting in about a week and a half.
At the beginning of 2015 I had zero youtube channel, I had zero instagram presence, zero
snapchat presence.
Pretty much no experience filming, shooting, editing videos.
So I went in blindly and I just starting filming video after video not knowing what the hell
I was doing, but I knew that I wanted do it and I wanted to do something that was kind
of cool and fun.
At the time, at the beginning of 2015 (and that's a little bit of a hint for what's coming
in a little bit) I was working in finance as an investment advisor which I've done for
about 8 years.
And that wasn't my passionate in life, I was passionate about endurance sports and I really
started latching on to this YouTube community and connecting with people over social media
who shared my passion in endurance sports.
We've now got about 44 videos on the channel, this one right here is going to be the forty-fifth.
We are just about to get past 400 subscribers, thank you very much for that.
ON Instagram we've got just over 2500 followers, and these are people that I've grown to love.
I'm interacting with the people on Instagram every day, and it's amazing once you go outside
of Winnipeg and you get on Instagram and you start connecting with people all over the
world, how many people are passionate about triathlon and how much it's changing their
life.
So that's super cool.
Gonna go ahead and get off this busy road because I'm sure it's making the sound pretty
shiiii.
Right hand turn guys.
Where we're at right now at the start of 2016 is a couple of things.
Number one: I'm sidelined.
I've been injured, if you follow me on Instagram.
Well not so much injured but I had a small surgery right at the end of 2015.
And this little walk around the block is the most exercise that I've had in about ten days
or so.
Second thing where we're at at the beginning of 2016 is there's a big job change coming
up.
Again, if you follow me on Instagram you know that I am changing jobs.
Total jackass dog there.
As of January 18th I'm becoming the social media director for a company called Mobile
Nations which owns the four largest combined smartphone blogs in the world.
iMore, Android Central, Windows Central, and Crackberry.
We're going to be building up a team of about somewhere in between about six and nine social
media people combined with videographers, graphic designers, people that are going to
be interacting with the followers of those websites on social media.
So the reason that I've got that opportunity is entirely thanks to all of you because all
of your interactions and the constant little bits of having another follower each and every
day, that's what inspired me to keep going and learn more about social media.
So I've got to thank all you guys for that.
What does that mean for the channel?
Awesome things.
I'm going to have a lot more contact in the technology space so hopefully I can get my
grubby mitts on new tech as it comes out.
SIT
That's a pretty badass car.
And hopefully the videoswill continue to get better because I'm going to have professional
videographers, professional video shooters on staff, and they're going to be able to
teach how to film with something a little more fancy than the Galaxy S6.
And I just picked up the canon 70d which is going to make this channel much more kick
ass.
Personally speaking, what are we doing for 2015?
Well I'm not a big guy in personal measurable goals because I believe that you should just
go out and try to kick ass a little bit every day.
I'm a believer that if you set very specific long term measurable goals it'll point you
in a direction that you might not necessarily want to be in.
So constantly tweaking where that direction is every single day has been what worked out
for me.
Look out guys.
BARK.
HEY Grace, don't be a goof.
Poor UPS man.
Family wise we're getting some blood work done with this guy we just found that he has
adrenal fatigue and that's why he's so rangy.
Kim, my wife, is going through Lyme disease treatment and she's been OK with it so far.
Thank you to all of the followers on Instagram for giving words of encouragement there.
And Graycie?
Well Gracie eats poop.
Racing and fitness wise I don't really have any goals on tap.
I know that I want to turn into a beast on the bike.
And I know that after this surgery heals up I'll be able to spend a lot more time running,
so I do want to go under 90 minutes for a half marathon.
And I think I've got a little bit of a twinge to try a full marathon, but I know how much
that hurts, so I don't know if I really want to do that or it's just the pain killers talking.
I'll get back to you in a few months about that.
Watch it.
HEYYY GUYS.
Sorry sorry sorry.
Oh tangled!
I do have two things that I have favours to ask of you for the channel.
Number One.
2016 is gonna be the year of Snapchat.
Mark my words...connected to a Wifi Hotspot, Ok....Snapchat in 2017 is gonna be where Twitter
was in 2010.
The amount of attention that people are paying to Snapchat right now is incredible.
So go find me on Snapchat it's "ARaceTaren"
I'm going be using Snapchat a hell of a lot more than I have been because I just got on
it a few weeks ago.
Now, my one measurable goal for 2016 is to get the A-Race Taren Channel up to a thousand
subscribers.
What I'm going to do over the course of the year is take direction from you as much as
possible.
If there's a product that you want to see a review on, or tips that you want me to put
some content together on let me know, that's what I'll give in return for you subscribing
to the channel.
If you're on the fence do me a favour and hit that subscribe button below.
Now with me not doing any exercise over the last ten days I am winded, that walk just
pooped me out.
Oh and by the way I want to give a shoutout to my buddy Super Dave Lipchin who is the
head coach of the Windburn Triathlon team those kids are awesome.
So, we're home.
Let these guys in, and I'm ready for a nap.
Have a great 2016 everyone, train hard and kill your A-Race whatever it is this year.
That's it guys, first walk in ages.