The end of August is birthday season around here. Tomorrow, August 31, I’m turning 56 and today, August 30, the blog turns 8.
It’s no surprise, of course, that the blog and I have our birthdays so close together. I started the blog with Tracy as part of our fittest by fifty challenge, two years in advance of our 50th birthday. You can read the whole story here.
Eight years ago to the day I posted A bit about Samantha and Tracy posted A bit about Tracy. Our first real posts were a few days later but that was the day the blog was born.
Since then we’ve grown and changed. 4285 posts under the bridge. This is my 2180th post! Tracy has left the group of blog regulars and others have joined. We’re now a group of a dozen bloggers sharing our voices as they connect to themes of feminism and fitness.
We’ve also hosted more than 200 guests and if you’ve ever thought about joining us and guest posting you can read about how that works here.
Occasionally I start to wonder if we’re needed. And then I see things like this!
Spotted at the bookshop – a table of 48 sports books, 46 by men, 2 by women – we need more women writing about sport & more books about women's sport @Nottswlibrary @feministlibrary @FitFeminists pic.twitter.com/3IeOsvf85B
— Katie Holmes (@RunYoung50) August 29, 2020
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