For the past 12 years I've logged my mileage and workouts in the Vermont Life Engagement Book. Each week has it's own page accompanied by a random picture of Vermont. Why? Because I get one every single Christmas, that's why. And actually that unlined space is perfect for mileage and notes. I have about half a book shelf at home with those books filled with workouts. Some half blank because of injury.
This sport has been a very personal thing to me for years because... well... no one gave a flying eff about it. But every day I got out there anyway, even when my friends thought I was crazy. "You're running 9 miles?!?!" So to find all you people and the 100,000,000,000,000,000,054 running blogs out there I was excited to revel in all the running community goodness. I wanted to go digital! Social!
But Daily Mile is over for me because...
- I'm sick of updating it
- I miss adding up my mileage the old school way
- The features are lacking
- No app?
- When I try to look back at weekly mileage from over 28 weeks ago I can't (I have to go and add it up)
- It's not easy to look at the past in a useful way in general. I want to know at a glance what each week was made of.
- I'm not very social on it. I just post my workouts. I barely ever talk to anyone else...I don't do daily challenges. So I'm not really using it "right".
- I think #runstreaks are meh. (Not really here nor there)
What will I miss
- Socializing (I did when I had time!)
- Seeing how many donuts I burned or TVs I powered
I know this is riveting, edge of your seat blogging. But really it leads me to questions I have for running/blogging community.
Do you like seeing other people's training? Why? Not?
Do you use Daily Mile? Why? Not?
Do you want to see my training on this blog? (All about me! ;)
As for me, I'm going to start a combination of Believe I Am (more for racing/goal setting) and Vermont Life (for day to day) training tracking...