blog (January, 2003)
adventure run
...The newly dubbed outing in which your smarmy host our charming hero uses his impeccable sense of indirection to lose himself in the knotted cobwebs that are the local [sub]urban streetsystems.
The endeavor invariably carries him nearly twice as far as he would like to run -- this particular adventure run ending, (after thirteen and one-half miles at a steady clip,) in a feeble finish where the early darkness had sent home all of the sideline spectators except the neatly raked piles of leaves, their rustles and whispers of "what happened to him?" just audible to our spent wanderer.
Running-Blog.com
I've been wondering for some time now how Branton's Running-Log site fits in with the blog world. I journal here, and I journal there, but for different reasons and with different formats and usages. Yet, I'd still like to be able to automatically incorporate a daily mileage entry in my running log as a short one-liner in my blog, linking to the workout entry for further info.
Most people will still do plain old blogging, lucky if they use a title or main link.
Many will occasionally use a structure. Especially as Blog This buttons proliferate. So you can post an SAP invoice to your intranet blog, for example.
Others will find a few formats that tie in closely with a deep interest or passion, or their jobs. A runner's diary. A movie review. A project status report.
-- Phil Wolff
Phil Wolff's entry on semantic blogging holds some insights on how specialized journals, reviews, recipes, invoices, etc. can exist as different forms of the same foundation. Qlogger is doing this, and even has a working Running Log template.
Part of what makes Running-Log.com great, to me, are the team and coaching features. But maybe those can be duplicated in a similar manner with specialization in aggregation.
Another team just signed up for the meet, B -- time to buy a new set of racing spikes ;-)
don't mistake us for some corny-ass crew
Yesterday the campers left; sad, but a breath of air after a hard summer's work, and an especially full-on week and a half. The summer flew by. I can't say I've accomplished everything I'd hoped to -- not in the least -- but I've labored and achieved, and enjoyed much of my time here. Last night was the final piss-up of the summer; the majority of my counselor co-workers left today for NYC, their starting point for travels around the states or, like my best buds, to Mexico, or returning back home to Aus./NZ/UK/etc.
I'm hanging around for a week of post-camp to take down the computer lab properly, and to work on a couple small projects. I have liberties with my schedule, allowing me to run with The Running School, which is using our camp for the week.
Here's to trying to keep up with many of the best high-school XC runners in the nation...