Tracking my running sessions: 5

Ops, this time my GPS unit fell down and I've lost the on/off switch. No luck, so I went back running.
Notice the final sprint before stopping. It wasn't too difficult, only four laps this time.

Tracking my running sessions: 4

This time I had to take a break (quater of a lap) just before the final lap (the seventh).
At least it was a fast lap.

Diet progress: 75 kg

The balance is now telling me that I weight 75 kg. That means I've lost another 800 grams.
Not too much, but perfectly on target.

Tracking my running sessions: 3

Longer run than usual (9 laps and a half), but with no speed variations.

Diet progress: -1.2 kg

When I put 73 kg as one month target I wasn't so sure I could make it.
But the progresses are promising: now I weight 75.8 kg, that means I've lost about 1.2 kg.

Tracking Gabriele's running session

A friend of mine, Gabriele, borrowed my GPS logging devices. A long run, and it could have been even longer if he had remembered to turn the GPS unit on few minutes before.
In fact all GPS unit needs few minutes to acquire a stable signal, especially when they have been switched off for a long time.

Tracking my running sessions: 2

This has been a much harder session: five laps ad medium speed, three laps of speed variations, stretching session and then some exercises.

Tracking my running sessions: 2

This has been a much harder session: five laps at medium speed, three laps of speed variations, stretching session and then some exercises.
During the last speed variation you can see how I gave the best of myself, in fact then I had to walk since I couldn't run anymore.

New bet: to weight less than Davide

Lately Davide has been making fun of me because he eats like a pig and still weights less than I do. He is also so stubborn that he doesn't want to take a blood test, so these are the terms of the bet: "he'll take a blood test as soon as I will weight less than he does".

So the plan is simple: strict diet and a lot more of physical activity. With strict diet I don't mean I will not eat anything, that is very stupid. Instead I will choose carefully each food I'll eat during the day, avoiding to take any carbohydrate after lunch (1.30 pm) till the day after.
This isn't easy because it means i can't take any sugar in the coffee, drink a cola or having even a fruit. Pizza, pasta and bread are then prohibited at supper, so I could only have vegetables, meet or fish.
The explanation is that by keeping a very low sugar level in the blood, the body will start burning some of the lipids that have been with me for a long time. By not taking any carbohydrate after lunch it means that I will be burning lipids all night long.

So, let's being. Starting weight: 77 kg, one month target: 73 kg

Tracking my running sessions: 1

It has been a long time since my last running session, so this has been an easy one. I joined Gigi, a soccer referee, too bad that I can't keep up with his pace.
We did three and a half laps around Prato della Valle at medium speed, then some speed variations for another two laps. Then a stretching session, and some running exercises.

Usurai.it

The domain usurai.it is now active.

New project: Usurai.it

Strange enough the domain usurai.it hasn't been registered by anybody, so I did it.

Pizza a Domicilio, removed again from Google (3)

I can't figure it out, look at here:
Google has removed pizza-a-domicilio.it from its index again! And still Google Webmaster Tools are not correct:

The only thing I can do now is to raise the daily budget on Google Adwords to 10 €.

PB: Traffic Record!

Yesterday (August 8th 2007) has been the day with the most traffic ever on Prezzi Benzina: 9975 page views.

Prezzi Benzina Traffic - August 2007

Prezzi Benzina Traffic - August 8th, 2007

Pizza a Domicilio, back again into Google index

After only twelve days it seems that buying mister-pizza.it has been useful.
Google is currently indexing Pizza a Domicilio in the first pages again.

This means that it's the perfect time to lower the maximum cpc from 0.03€ to 0.02€ on Google Adwords. Anyway I'll keep the maximum daily budget at 5.00€.

Pizza a Domicilio buys Mister Pizza

One way to increase the Page Rank of a web site is to buy an old website which has a good page rank and it's on sell.
Then by using an HTTP 301 redirect, all the traffic will be forwared to the website you want to rank better. Then, shortly after Google has recognized the change, it will pass the PR of the old website to the new one.

This is why today I bought www.mister-pizza.it. It has a PR of 2 and I payed about 400€. Not really what I call a bargain, but I hope it will be worth it.

At the time of writing the redirecting has just started to work. Let's see how long it will take before we see any change in the page rank.

Pizza a Domicilio, removed again from Google index?

I have no words, it seems that Google is making fun of me.
After two days of traffic (when I wrote "back into Google index"), now there isn't anymore.

But what really makes me upset is the fact that even Google seems not to be aware of this.
Using "Webmaster Tools", section "Query stats" this is the supposed keyword average positioning of the last seven days:

But this is not true. Actually the first occurrence of "Pizza a Domicilio", displaying 100 results per page, is on the last one, the eight. This means that the true positioning is after the 700th.

Taking a train from Padova to Cornuda

The path is the same as the Cornuda-Padova, but this time top speed has been 113 km/h, 11 km/h less than a month ago.
Why? Because Trenitalia decided that since railtracks were too hot, train had to go slower.
If you have Google Earth, here's the kml file

Pizza a Domicilio, back into Google index?

It took almost two months, but after having been penalized by Google, now Pizza a Domicilio is back in the first result page, as you can see from Google Analytics, visits are growing.

on Google.it:

• pizza a domicilio: 8th position
• pizza domicilio: 8th position
  

while on Google.com:

• pizza a domicilio: 2nd position
• pizza domicilio: 13th position
  

174 nuovi comuni ad alta risoluzione su Gmap

Ecco la lista degli ultimi comuni di cui è stata resta disponibile la mappa ad alta risoluzione su Google Map. A quando Padova?

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