{"id":913,"date":"2008-12-30T04:53:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=913"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:48:00","slug":"best-of-2008-most-read-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/best-of-2008-most-read-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2008: Most Read Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a nice objective look at what was the most popular item from 2008 on this blog.\u00a0 Using Google Analytics<\/a> I can track which post recieved the most hits.\u00a0 One small problem is that I left up the old Run Central Indiana site for much of the year before I began auto-forwarding the old links.\u00a0 So I’ll go back and add up those hits as well to determine the top 5<\/strong> viewed posts from 2008.<\/p>\n

5) Ways to Ruin Your Next Race<\/a> (which also made last year’s top 5)<\/p>\n

4) June 30 & July 4 Races<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Caffeine is a Banned Substance<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Race Review of the Indianapolis Half Marathon<\/a><\/p>\n

1) Merry Christmas from Team Cross<\/a><\/p>\n

Seriously… that isn’t a slick joke, our last year’s Christmas greeting has almost 2x’s as many hits as any other post.\u00a0 I’m not really sure why.\u00a0 Maybe some analytics pro can help me figure this oddity out.<\/p>\n

Some notable honorable mentions are Volunteering at the 2007 Chicago Marathon<\/a>, Race Review of the 2007 Drumstick Dash<\/a>, and a product review<\/a> of my Pearl Izumi shorts.<\/p>\n

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Here is a nice objective look at what was the most popular item from 2008 on this blog.\u00a0 Using Google Analytics I can track which post recieved the most hits.\u00a0 One small problem is that I left up the old Run Central Indiana site for much of the year before I began auto-forwarding the old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[372,62],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","tag-google-analytics","tag-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-eJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":146,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/best-of-2007-top-5-most-read-articles\/","url_meta":{"origin":913,"position":0},"title":"Best of 2007: Top 5 Most Read Articles","author":"crossn81","date":"December 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I began Run Central Indiana in May of 2007, when I created Team Cross Runs I brought all the old content with me. 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