I know that this thread will be closed really soon, but I would love if I could get some answers first. I have my own website (one of those dinky little do it yourself things), but I would be more than willing to set up a board on it (it already has an unused chat room if anyone is interested tell me). Problem is I don't know how, does anyone know a place where I can find out how or would be willing to take the time to shoot me an e-mail or PM telling me. Thanks a bundle!
OK I created
USMS NSR at yahoogroups.com
to find it drop by
sports.groups.yahoo.com/.../
any one can post
on the web or by sending an email to
USMSNSR@yahoogroups.com
if y'all want I can make it a private group where only members can post. I can also make it a private group where it will be unlisted and only people can join by our approval so we filter out spammers - let me know
I'm also happy to make other folks moderators
if you wanna be a moderator let me know
to subscribe send an email to
USMSNSR-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
to unsubscribe send an email to
USMSNSR-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
I recommend that you join then edit your membership so you get a daily digest or or NO EMAIL in the event that the site becomes active
knock yourselves out
any one have any questions you can email me at
AndeRasmussen@aol.com
does this mean that your posts will now appear on the Yahoo Board and not become long-long-long posts on this board? This includes your blog.
I'm a Yahoo moderator and use Yahoo Groups as both a participant and a mod.
I'll probably get shouted down for this suggestion but at times, Ande, almost all the topics have been started by you.
I hope Ande doesn't stop posting his tips here!! That would be terrible. I don't think that's what the other board was created for either. It's simply another option where we can still talk about swimming but also mix in a healthy dose of regular life and the totally bizzare.
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.
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.
