The Monthly Milestone (February 2024) - Schedule/Content update and Referrals

Thank you to my most generous supporters

Greetings to My Readers

Six months into my Substack journey and we are almost at 500 subscribers! Thank you to everyone who has subscribed so far! I have been uploading articles on a weekly basis with the occasional bonus article thrown in.

Articles are uploaded on Wednesdays at 17:00 JST with a monthly milestone post to give a few updates at the beginning of each month.

Schedule/Content update

Before I started on Substack I was uploading articles to my own website. You may have noticed that the domain of this website recently updated to bunburyoudou.com. This was the domain of my old site which I am in the process of shutting down since I wasn’t using it to do anything but blogging. Substack is a superior platform for this so I’ll be sticking around here.

I still have a few articles in my archive that I don’t want to lose. I am in the process of updating them and uploading them to Substack but this is a time consuming process.

My backlog has some martial arts articles and some race reports. For the time being and until I can clear my backlog I’ll be alternating weeks between race reports and other topics. I’ll be running the Challenge Fuji 5 Lakes Ultramarathon in April and ideally I want all of my race report backlog on Substack BEFORE I run this so future race reports will be in chronological order. (March 6th will likely be a martial arts article).

February Milestone Housekeeping

To my free subscribers, I realize these posts can be a little tiresome due to the lack of content. I’m grateful to all of my subscribers and I do my best to keep all of the main content free. I just upload these posts as a bonus to say thank you to the people who are choosing to help me with my activities.

Speaking of which, on February 11th I ran I the Michikusa Dragon 50km thanks to the support of my paid subscribers. This was first event I entered that was made possible thanks to the support I received through this blog, so thank you to all who contributed. If you missed that report it can be found here.

You can support my activities by making a subscription via Substack or by making a one off donation via Buy me a Coffee or PayPal.

I also added a new page to my website with a few affiliate links (Wise, Honey, and bitFlyer). That info can be found by clicking the button below:

Finally, one other way you can really support my work is to share articles you enjoy around. Substack actually has a referral program (which I haven’t used much), but I have included details below:

Referrals

If you know someone you think would enjoy my Substack then you can invite them by hitting the refer a friend button. If you refer friends, you will get access to my Substack as if you were a paid subscriber and get your name up on the site leaderboard.

How to participate

1. Share Bunburyoudou (文武両道) Substack. When you use the referral link below, or the “Share” button on any post, you'll get credit for any new subscribers. Simply send the link in a text, email, or share it on social media with friends.

2. Earn benefits. When more friends use your referral link to subscribe (free or paid), you’ll receive special benefits.

• Get a 1 month comp for 3 referrals

• Get a 3 month comp for 5 referrals

• Get a 6 month comp for 25 referrals

To learn more, check out Substack’s FAQ.

This month…

The content of this monthly update is summarized below but the details will only be visible to my paid subscribers.

In this Monthly Milestone I’m going to be covering the following:

• Substack Stats

• Monthly Training Stats

• Race/Event Results

• Reading List (what I’m currently reading)

• Final Thoughts and Hopes for March

Everything beyond this point will be for paid subscribers only. The information will be nicely set out in one place for them but if anyone has any burning questions please feel free to shoot me an email.