3 Hours and 15 Minutes

That’s how fast I would need to run 26.2 miles in order to qualify for the Boston Marathon. That breaks down to running each mile in 7 minutes, 26 seconds (or faster), which I don’t think is physically possible for my run-down, out-of-shape old body. So I figured I’d create a site with that name for inspiration…

I also had a company called 7 Minute Miles, Inc. It was an S-corp founded in the state of Minnesota in 1997 that originally began life as Golden Links Publishing, LLC. Our first product was a multimedia CD-ROM golf guide to all of the public golf courses in Minnesota called Minnesota Golden Links:

After the demise of the CD-ROM, I needed to decide how best to use the huge library of photos and the large amount of information we had gathered. Another version of a CD was out of the question, so I decided to test the waters of the Internet. GoldenLinksGolf.com was launched in the spring of 2000:

Traffic continued to build in 2001, peaking at 124,353 page views in July 2001, with 5,547 unique hosts and more than 5GB of data transferred that month. Despite the rise in viewership, online advertising wasn’t really a mature business model yet and the major assets of the site were sold to TwinCitiesGolf.com after the 2001 season.

After the GoldenLinksGolf.com sale, the name of the company was changed to 7 Minute Miles, Inc. and the focus of the company shifted to technology consulting. I did work for a number of small clients before signing a contract with Studio 4 Enterprises in St. Paul to work on a web development project. After several months, Studio 4 made me an offer to join their staff full-time, which I accepted. 7 Minute Miles, Inc. has been dormant for several years and by law ceased to be an official corporation on December 31, 2006. I could reinstate it by sending $35 to the state, but for now it’s better the way it is.

I’ve had the 7minutemiles.com domain registered for a few years and decided it was time to put it to use…DK