!NSR! Setting up a board

Dear msgrupp, You made some good points in your post about that thread being too much for a new person to read, people get to choose what they click and what they read. Maybe I'll truncate it at the end of the year. Maybe I'll place an explanation and introduction at the beginning. The bulk of it is about the workouts I do each day. So I might have mislabeled the thread when I created it, there are several threads dedicated to workouts in the Workouts forum. If you look at my masters rankings in the mens 40 - 44 age group you'll see that in the 200 IM in: 2004 LCM I was ranked #2 in the world 2004 SCM I was ranked #1 in the world 2005 SCY I'm currently ranked #1 in the US So this thread shows my fellow masters swimmers how I train each day and the things I go through. I'd love to read what trip hedrick or richard abrahams or jim mcconica or other elite masters swimmers did each day to train. Plus I happens to train at the UT swim center where the UT men and womens teams train under coaches Eddie Reese and Jill Sterkel. Plus several world record holders and olympians train there as well like: Ian Crocker (WR 100 fly), Aaron Piersol (WR 100 bk and 200 bk), Brendan Hansen (WR 100 br and 200 br), Neil Walker Olympian 2000 and 2004, and Nate Dusing (Olympian 2000 & 2004) Many people have written me saying they enjoy reading the thread. People who train on their own write saying they've used those sets in their practices. Visitors don't have to read the whole thing they can just read the latest which is always at the end, or what ever they choose to. Plus it sports a high number of views and fairly high "posts" to "views" ratio. I believe this board was created to allow masters swimmers to share info, create a community, encourage each other to improve, support each other when life throws curves, and for countless other positive reasons. thank you for sharing your opinion, ande PS How's your swimming going? Originally posted by msgrupp when I want to read a blog--I had for a blog-related site. This site isn't devoted to blogs. While personal opinions and ideas can differ---writing styles also differ. If I wanted to post a "diary" (which appears to be more what your blog is)---I'd write one. But, since I don't think people are going to care about every little tiny detail of how I feel on a particular day, what I weigh when I started a workout and what I weighed when it ended, or that I need to lose X # of lbs, or that today I was able to accomplish x # of yards/meters or that I did x # of lengths of a particular stroke and that I used my left hand more than my right and that I experimented with a different (fill in the blank) cap, goggles, kickboard position, flippers, today I taped my left knee cap in place and that it felt different while kicking, or the pool water temp was x or there were x # of people sharing my lane and on and on. I'm sure there are places for blogs. But I STILL don't think the USMS site is the specific place for individual blogs. By the time you get over 200 entries---it's too much material to read for someone new. I'm on another board, where one posting now runs more than 2000 entries (and it's not a blog). The thing has taken on a life of it's own and now takes up quite a bit of the owner's bandwidth. Maybe, Ande, you need to start ANOTHER Yahoo board specifically for blogs of swimming people. Then all of you could sit there and post your feelings about your day's swim.

Dear msgrupp, You made some good points in your post about that thread being too much for a new person to read, people get to choose what they click and what they read. Maybe I'll truncate it at the end of the year. Maybe I'll place an explanation and introduction at the beginning. The bulk of it is about the workouts I do each day. So I might have mislabeled the thread when I created it, there are several threads dedicated to workouts in the Workouts forum. If you look at my masters rankings in the mens 40 - 44 age group you'll see that in the 200 IM in: 2004 LCM I was ranked #2 in the world 2004 SCM I was ranked #1 in the world 2005 SCY I'm currently ranked #1 in the US So this thread shows my fellow masters swimmers how I train each day and the things I go through. I'd love to read what trip hedrick or richard abrahams or jim mcconica or other elite masters swimmers did each day to train. Plus I happens to train at the UT swim center where the UT men and womens teams train under coaches Eddie Reese and Jill Sterkel. Plus several world record holders and olympians train there as well like: Ian Crocker (WR 100 fly), Aaron Piersol (WR 100 bk and 200 bk), Brendan Hansen (WR 100 br and 200 br), Neil Walker Olympian 2000 and 2004, and Nate Dusing (Olympian 2000 & 2004) Many people have written me saying they enjoy reading the thread. People who train on their own write saying they've used those sets in their practices. Visitors don't have to read the whole thing they can just read the latest which is always at the end, or what ever they choose to. Plus it sports a high number of views and fairly high "posts" to "views" ratio. I believe this board was created to allow masters swimmers to share info, create a community, encourage each other to improve, support each other when life throws curves, and for countless other positive reasons. thank you for sharing your opinion, ande PS How's your swimming going? Originally posted by msgrupp when I want to read a blog--I had for a blog-related site. This site isn't devoted to blogs. While personal opinions and ideas can differ---writing styles also differ. If I wanted to post a "diary" (which appears to be more what your blog is)---I'd write one. But, since I don't think people are going to care about every little tiny detail of how I feel on a particular day, what I weigh when I started a workout and what I weighed when it ended, or that I need to lose X # of lbs, or that today I was able to accomplish x # of yards/meters or that I did x # of lengths of a particular stroke and that I used my left hand more than my right and that I experimented with a different (fill in the blank) cap, goggles, kickboard position, flippers, today I taped my left knee cap in place and that it felt different while kicking, or the pool water temp was x or there were x # of people sharing my lane and on and on. I'm sure there are places for blogs. But I STILL don't think the USMS site is the specific place for individual blogs. By the time you get over 200 entries---it's too much material to read for someone new. I'm on another board, where one posting now runs more than 2000 entries (and it's not a blog). The thing has taken on a life of it's own and now takes up quite a bit of the owner's bandwidth. Maybe, Ande, you need to start ANOTHER Yahoo board specifically for blogs of swimming people. Then all of you could sit there and post your feelings about your day's swim.