Wayne County Run
I was taking a picture in the other direction. I was much more uncomfortable than I looked. I started thinking about how I could get business down in this community. I’ve decided that I could do social media advertising to pick up clients down here. You will notice that I have yet to experience clients from this location at the bottom of this page. So I will run some Facebook, Instagram, TickTok, and LinkedIn ads to pick up more social media clients. The advertising will be geo-targeted, focusing on towns like Livonia, Gross Point, Dearborn, Detroit, etc. While I started this site to get some website design and SEO work, I’ve designed around ten sites since starting. The results of this site have yet to bring me any work. I’ll start focusing on the SEO of my sites and redesign mccatty.net. I’ve also purchased mccatty.site, mccatty.website, and mccatty.org to do email marketing to attempt to get a marketing business moving. I’ve started email marketing and will contact some companies down here to get some work. I’ve had a lot of success with other clients and continue to do work for others, but if I could pick up 10 to 20 more clients, that would open up options for me and allow me to be more focused on clients’ work and try to get my own thing going.
The start of my run. The photo is of the Wayne exit just north of the airport. My sister and I went down to Florida after my dads passing. Since I have dropped the ball this year with county runs, I asked her if I did a county-run was okay. The question was a HUGE ask as we had two very, very stressful flights. The first one, we were on the plane from Detroit to Florida for over 7 hours. We stayed the night at the airport for the second one because we had to be there at 3 am and fly out at 5. The second flight was good, but we were just SO tired at the point of this run, and we had a 3-4 hour drive home from there. I told her to go to Bob Evans up the Road, and I would run there and meet her for breakfast. I had to run past Bob Evans to get a full 5k in, but it was so nice to get a county done finally.
I suggested to Mary (a high school friend) that Lisa and I would meet up with them when I ran this county. So sad that I didn’t do that, but I will make it a point to meet up with Mary and Rob someday soon.
I ran out of sidewalk and had to run on the road for a big section of this run.
Here I was running on the road but it had a nice big shoulder and there wasn’t a ton of traffic. It was super hot though.
A little farther down the road. Almost no cars.
I’m not sure what that run ball was, but I thought it was interesting.
Further down the road, there was a big building that had a dome.
I finally made it to Bob Evans, but I was only at 2.2 miles, so I had to keep going and turn around in .425 miles
This was past Bob Evans.
A pick of my shadow. This was an accidental shot but I though it was cool.
I saw this man-hole-cover by EJIW. A long time ago, I used to design for EJIW. I have drawn probably thousands of these covers for their brochures, White papers, presentations, and any media or advertising they did. I worked with them probably 15 years ago, but I’m still proud of all I did for them. I was doing about 13 3d illustrations of manhole covers a day. They found it was cheaper to hire me to draw them using 3d modeling software than to hire a photographer, forklift operator, and several people to lift and move these around for the photos. After the photos were taken, they would need to hire someone to airbrush them to look clean. So much less expensive to hire me to develop these products for advertising.
Turn around point and run back to Bob Evans.
In Florida, at my Dad and Sharon’s home with my brother Geoff and his wife Kim. On the right is my sister Vicki. It was a super stressful weekend, but made so much better, having company who cared. Thank you.
Sharon, my step mom, I was able to visit with her while I was down there in Florida. Love you.
Picture of Lisa my wife, me, Greg, Dad, Myron, and in the front, Geoff, Sharon, Lisa, and Vicki
As I stated above, I planned to meet up with Mary and Rob, but it came up that I needed to use the Detroit airport, and I decided to complete this county so I could check one off this summer.
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