Training Blogs for Runners

“Instead of detailing workouts in a private training diary, runners are now logging their workouts on the Web for friends, teammates, and long-distance training partners to read and respond to,” writes Chaddus Bruce in the October 2005 issue of Runner’s World (“Today I Ran Fast – Keeping A Training Blog Can Help You Get Fit And Focused”).

This is something I myself experimented with a little of last spring when I blogged a few times about running the Boston Marathon for charity.

This is also something I have suggested to my fellow runners and friends at the Greater Framingham Running Club.

A blog – as companion to a more traditional Web site – would be the ideal online self-publishing platform for any club for that matter, running-related or not.

To get a good idea what a training blog looks like, click here, here , here and, last but not least, here (where you’ll find Chaddus Bruce’s own blog).

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  • Very interesting – putting your training efforts out in the public!

    Although I’m a slow fat Greek, I have taken up biking with a vengence this summer, due to new-bike-itis, and I’ll bet I wouldn’t have slacked off the last two weeks if it was public knowledge! One day I even decided to nap instead of ride. For me, this would certainly be a motivational tool.

    I probably won’t blog my goal for the year – it’s biking another 600 miles this year. I might even make it, despite the weather and an abundance of work, but it would be more likely if I had biking friends following my progress on a regular basis!

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