Reader to Turtle: “Daily run posts are boring.” Turtle: “I know!”
2007 Jun 06I was already thinking about changing the format of my running posts into a weekly summary, when I got an email from a friend who actually reads my blog who hinted that the daily run posts do not make for entertaining reading. I agree!
So from here on out, I won’t bore folks with daily run updates. I’ll still post if something interesting (something that I find interesting) happens, and I’ll still post training tips and guidelines as I learn them. And I’m going to focus more on posting about gear and gadgets and productivity tricks.
Anyone who is actually interested in keeping up with my training (perhaps other beginning/semi-serious/serious runners) shoot me an email and I’ll let you know how you can access my training log. If you don’t know my email addy already, you can reach me at [the name of this blog with no spaces or punctuation] at gmail dot com.
Hmm…I actually like the running posts. I think “is it interesting to the reader” is not really a relevant criteria for what gets posted on a personal blog. I visit this blog to read about whatever slice of your life you want to share and if running/fitness is the topic of the day, that’s cool. If not, that’s fine too. If posting the running logs helps you stay on track (your updates have helped and motivated my workouts) I say, don’t be shy! Keep posting. If you want to focus the blog on productivity and gear, one workaround is to develop a sideblog (or a twitter) that would just post your running logs. I’m thinking of doing that for mine.
Use Twitter as a sideblog for recording my runs?! You’re a freaking genius! That’s totally what I’m going to do!
dude! i didn’t mean for you to not write about your runs and training! i just meant that i wouldn’t be running with you.
and who is this “D” who’s super-organized! shee-it.
No worries, I’m definitely not going to stop writing about my workouts and training, I’m just not going to be fanatical about creating a new journal entry for each and every single workout. It wasn’t your input that caused me to decide to change formats… I was already on the verge of doing it. Your email just triggered the post which was already practically written in my head. I was getting a little weary of recording my workouts in both the running log I keep on RunningAhead.com and here in this journal, especially since I felt some pressure (self-imposed) to try to write something thoughtful about each and every single run.
I’m actually planning on migrating my website to my own URL soon – then I’ll be able to link to the training log on RunningAhead.com and I won’t be “double posting” daily running entries. That means the RSS feed for this blog won’t update every time I post a run, but that’s okay, I’ll still write about interesting things that happen to me during particular workouts.