TRIATHLON GRANDMA - QUICK LINKS
-- First blog entry - 2012
-- First 5K - 2012
-- First Inside Triathlon - 2013
-- First Outdoor Triathlon - 2013
-- World Tri Championship (and Team USA) Qualification - 2015
-- Face of God - 2015
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Video! Quarter Million Plus Views! Crazy!!!
As we were driving home from the USA National Championship in Omaha, I checked emails on my phone and saw one from the reporter who interviewed me prior to the race (see blog entry). The subject link simply said "Wow!"
He said:
"National outlets are starting to pickup on your story ... here's a video they made: https://www.facebook.
When I opened the link, I was blown away. An online TV station called VUZ took took the KETV story and made a 39-second video out of it - with music in the background, and my words printed as I talked. They posted it on Facebook. Wild! TOTALLY dumbfounded.
Several people posted comments and I was thrilled that some said they were inspired to start their own journey. That just made my day. Happy, happy!
Then, I noted that there had been 128,000 views! WHAT?!!! Could that be right?
I started hitting refresh every 5 minutes or so, and each time I did there were 100's of additional views. As my husband and I drove along I-80, we kept saying to each other, "This is crazy!" as we watched the number of views climb. When we went to bed, there were 183,000 views.
Yesterday, the number of views continued to grow to our utter amazement and passed 250,000 - more than a quarter of a million views. Unreal.
As of this moment, there are 287,210 views and 608 shares. Crazy!
I have always hoped that my journey would help at least one person begin a journey of their own. Hopefully, at least one of those 250,000 people will start a journey. That would be SO cool!
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