Alright Folks

So I've had a couple of comments recently about my own running and how it relates to my blog. Look folks, I'm not on the same level of these guys I talk about and I've never tried to pretend I was. I put up my opinions about track and field. I have gotten 20,000 views so far in May so I figured people care about what I have to say. If you don't, you don't have to read, I assure you. I spend a year period where I never had more than 2,000 views in a month so I'm not doing this for views. I almost had 2,000 yesterday alone. I haven't made a single penny of this blog. My google adsense account was shut down before I got my first check because I clicked on my own ads and violated the adsense contract. So I'm not doing this for money. I do this because I love the sport and I hope you do to.

I'm not offended by most criticisms honestly. I'm 20 years old, and I know that I am not perfect and know there are things on the blog I can improve. I have been following track and field in PA closely since my sophomore year in high school. I certainly have some experience and I know a lot of stats but I am not, nor have I ever tried to imply, that I am a wise, sage-like, old student of the game.

On the blog, I'm not going to just give everyone high fives and congratulations all the time. Anyone can do that. I analyze races and runners to the best of my ability and do my best not to come off as offensive or judgmental. Not everyone has a good race everyday and I try not to be too harsh on those guys because I have been there too. But doing what I do means I'm going to say some people are better than others and that means people may take offense from what I am writing. I assure you, I don't mean to offend anyone with what I am writing. You can read what I say and be offended, or, as I hope most of you by the age of high school have learned, you can use it as motivation to go out and prove me wrong. If I say you are going to lose or not going to make states, it doesn't affect your ability to go out and do it at all.

Lastly I'll just figure I'll throw this out there for the record because a few people have mentioned it recently. These are my running PRs:
51.66
1:58.94
4:10.04 for 1500
9:17 for 3k
28:05 for 8k

in high school I ran
51.9 split
1:59.8 split
4:41 for 1600
10:23 for 3200
17:05 for 5k

I am a mid-distance, track guy.

I am not as good, nor have I been as good, as essentially all the runners I talk about on the blog. If that means you can't respect my opinions, that is perfectly fine, I encourage you to go somewhere else. I am perfectly comfortable with who I am as a runner. Like everybody else, I train hard and work my best to try and get to new PRs by the end of the season. I don't care if you think I'm slow because I don't run so that people will tell me how awesome I am on a blog. And I certainly don't put people down on my blog so that I'll feel better about my own running achievements.  Not much makes me upset, but I take offense to comments like that.

So now you know me. I have done my best to operate this blog respectively, carefully, and effectively. I have never intentionally taken shots at anyone on my blog, or insulted people intentionally or used any type of insulting language or attacking tone that I know of. Personally, to me it doesn't matter if you run 2:10 or 1:40, as long as you know what you're talking about I respect your opinion. If it matters to you, now you know and you can peace off the blog.

Haters gotta hate.

-train