| |
| Added: 09 Mar 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| NIF2 - 2014.... The Plan |
Refreshed with a week of lying by a pool and gradually progressing from pasty white to a quite nasty looking dark red, I’ve had some head space to think through what way I’ll approach 2014.
Throughout 2013 I found it a bit of a push to do the 101 things that I try to do, the actually racing I enjoy, the photography I enjoy, the travelling is draining but you won’t arrive at a track by magic, but it’s the writing reports, sorting and uploading photos to website after website after the racing which is becoming the biggest drain and it was probably getting to the stage where I was avoiding some meetings at Ballymena that I’d liked to have gone to, simply because I didn’t want to lose another day of my week sorting photos and writing reports etc. I find that fundamentally flawed, a hobby or pastime should be something enjoyable, when it gets to the point it becomes a strain to want to do it then there is something seriously wrong with it. Additionally in 2013 I was trying to play indoor football on a Friday night before heading to the racing, so I missed the opening races, and that too made racing on a Friday night a bit of a chore.
So for 2014 I’ve had a bit of a think and decided what needs to go, I’d considered scraping NIF2, the domain doesn’t really fit the content, the site isn’t the hub of local oval racing it once was, the facebook page has less likes than any other local oval racing page and I don’t think to tweet stuff as often as I should. When I think about it though it’s almost an extension of my identity these days, and I still enjoying penning the odd blog piece when I get time.
Here therefore is the plan, rather than sitting down and writing report after report after every meeting, I will instead aim to write once piece for the site a week during racing season, so one piece may cover 3 meetings in a weekend instead of writing 3 pieces and instead of missing a meeting because I don’t really want to be sat at home writing reports the next day. This I hope will continue to keep me motivated throughout the season, and I hope if I get out of the habit of just writing meeting reports then I’ll be able to get better and more interesting content written.
If off course I still feel that I’m missing meetings because I don’t want to be bothered writing them up, then it may well just be the time to pull the plug.
[see the full article] |
 |
|
| Added: 21 Jan 2014 |
Category: 2014 Oval Racing |
| Aghadowey set to re-open (again) |
Talk of Aghadowey and many people within the sport can reminisce about the “good aul days”, they’ll tell you tales of Ulster’s finest Hot Rod and stockcar drivers from days gone, how great the saloons used to be around it and how big a crowd it would pull on a bank holiday.
[see the full article] |
.JPG) |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
