This is my last entry at fastrunningblog.com. It's not because of the great people here. At the risk of sounding grumpy, let me share with you why I am leaving. Maybe things will improve.
1. Input. It doesn't work well. There is no cut and paste feature in the applet, and there is no way to enter text on anything but a computer. Need to have smartphone and iPad compatability. If the blog is to survive, this must happen soon.
2. The mileage breakdowns are too balkanized. hill v. easy v. track. Whaaaa? I train for both marathons and ultras. So, if I do a 30 mile run with less than 4000' climb in 7 hours, that is definitely an easy run, but not Easy in the sense of the blog. But it's not a Hill run either, with so little climb. Easy would be a lazy 4 on the BST, Hill would have at least 6000' climb. So I have to wonder what to do. That should not happen in a blog. It should be fire and forget. What about a custom field(s)? That would solve the problem.
3. No total climb feature. Sorry, this is relevant today, especially with trail runs and ultras catching on. Ignoring it is like sitting in your garage with your USATF measuring wheel and your Jim Fixx books hoping we nonconformist weirdos will all go away. I have complained about this to DailyMile and other blogs, and they are addressing it. Need climb.
4. Internet Explorer issues. Huh? I work at a federal installation. We can't just go and download Firefox. Not going to happen. Content providers need to please their users, not vice versa.
OK, that sounded more like a rant. But it's more reflective of the fact that I had huge hopes for this site, hoping I could migrate over from DailyMile. But DailyMile is still going to be my number one until I find a better mousetrap. I hope that I can come back, and soon. I have a very special relationship with a mapping software vendor where, if I were to give him four bullets like I did above, a software patch would appear in my inbox two days later. He is thriving. Hopefully that will happen here.
I will still stay on as a user and check on y'all once in a while. Meantime, check out what Kelly has to offer on dailymile.com. My handle there is Hyperphil. Kelly has run Wasatch and the Bear and has a good thing going.
Run gently out there.
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