A New Social Training Site

For those of you that aren’t already overwhelmed by all the social networking sites out there on the Internet, you might be interested in a new one that’s specifically geared toward runners, cyclists and triathletes. It’s called The Daily Mile. Although I’ve only been using it for a couple of weeks so far, I’m enjoying the features and the interactions with other runners on the site.

The site allows you to post notes about what you’ve got going on as well as information about the workouts you’ve been doing. The workout posting is fairly basic compared with other true running log type sites: there are fields for the sport, the distance, the time, and comments, but little else. Although I’d like to see this expanded a bit, what’s nice about it is that your workouts are published as kind of a lifestream or mini-blog that other people can see and comment on. You can also see what your ‘friends’ have been up to and comment on their workouts and posts.

The site also has ‘Groups’ that you can join or start if you want to discuss a specific topic with others. For example, I’ve joined the Bicycling Commuting group and the Hundred Pushups group (for people who are doing the Hundred Pushups challenge, which I talked about in this post). The groups function works basically like mini-forums where people can post information or questions about anything pertinent that topic. You can also publish photos to the groups you join.

There are a couple of other interesting features that I haven’t checked out too much yet, but expect to in the coming weeks: an ‘Answers’ area where you can post a question for the community to respond to, a ‘Forums’ area (which seems to have a lot of overlap with the Groups functionality, but maybe I’m missing something), and an ‘Events’ area where you can search for a race to enter or view and write comments about various events. The Events feature is particularly intriguing to me, because although there are certainly a lot of sites out there that allow you to search for events, not to many of them have reviews of the events by ordinary folks that have done the race.

If you’re interested in exploring The Daily Mile, I’ve got several invites to give away. If you leave a comment on this post saying you want one, I’ll be happy to send one out to you - the first 22 people to comment will get my remaining invites.

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