About Me
Posted on July 10, 2007
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My name is Phil Burns, on the net I go by Phil801. If you google phil801, you’ll find everything you could possibly want to know about me. I’m just your typical Geek/Farmer/Mountain Man/runner with 8 kids!
I created this blog to keep my running blogging seperate from my professional and personal (family) blog.
By trade, I’m a computer programmer specializing in business applications. About a year ago I decided to build create a new web company focussed on organizing the blogosphere. That effort is close to coming to fruition, we have several very cool applications that we’re about to release that include a blog search engine (that actually works as compared to Technorati), a news identification system (it’s basically the AP NewsWire for the blogosphere) and a very deep analytics engine for the blogosphere.
My wife and I have been married almost 14 years now and we have 8 awesome kids. They range from 16 - 1 year and we have a set of 2 year old twins. The greatest things about having my own business is that I get to control my schedule and can spend time with the family as frequently as I desire.
We live on 2 1/2 acres in beautiful Mapleton Utah. When time permits, we raise animals and have an acre garden for raising our own food. This year we don’t have any of that going on due to the incredible stress of building my own business, however I’m hoping that next year we’ll be able to repopulate our barnyard and get a full garden going.
One of the beautiful things about Mapleton, besides being mostly farmland just 10 minutes from Provo, is that we’re literally surrounded on 3 sides by mountains that are part of the Rocky Mountain Range. I absolutely love speding time in the mountains either hiking and/or camping. I don’t have nearly as much time for that as I would like to, but I try to summit at least once a month.
I’m new on the road to becoming a runner - that story is over here. In High School I was a wrestler in both collegiate and freestlye. I was also a very commited body-builder. I did a fair amount of running in my training, but it was never a focus, it was simply a way to improve my stamina on the mat.
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