Other People's Blogs

I'm reading other people's training blogs and seeing how they differ from the private ones they kept 20 years ago. A friend of mine would write "Ran 3 miles, felt shitty" for page after page, just putting in something to fill in the gaps between races and productive training sessions, not thinking he'd be reading these training logs years later. In present times, however, more athletes are using online training tools to not only keep track of their progress for themselves, but to share with others for information and inspiration. And not only are they attempting to write more for entertainment, but they are keeping tighter records. And this leads to the training logs with exacting details of every nuance of every workout - possibly several workouts a day, sent in through their laptop or updated on their cell phone. If we want to tell the world what we're doing rignt now, at this very second, and exactly how we feel about that, we can. And, I think that's pretty awesome, because we can not only learn about these other people we may not really know, but we can also make sure that they're doing the workouts they set out to do. Big Brother is keeping us on track.

Ran 3 miles, felt shitty.