Ras blog

anthony_walsh

Guys, this is my first post.
Let me know what you think of my blog

any ideas to improve it? Or what direction it should take?

shaungil

Hiya Anto,

Personal opinion on blogs are

1) not too technical I'm not a massive technology fan but I know a lot of people salivate over stats so.

2) Race stuff is what I like to see and how guys approach a race and react during it. This can be hard to do though as you don't want to be giving away secrets or opinions on other racers which might come back and bite you in the ass.

3) Consistent updates and if you're not going to update say it you're away for two weeks.

Ryan's are good but persoanlly I prefer to read it than video blogs.

Anyway you never will please everyone so just try to please me!!!!

see ya soon

shaun

ROK ON

I happened across your blog a few weeks back.
You write well. Blogs IMO are descriptive/opinion pieces rather than factual per se. You paint a good picture.
Like Shaun, I am not a massive stats man. Your thoughts and feelings of a particular race/training session whatever will paint a more interesting picture than a screenshot of stats.
Keep it up. Great name btw.

Ryaner

Nice blog and well written.

Link to bigger pictures if you can. It is always nice to see the suffering.

As for stats, I do enjoy stats. However reading pages about different sections is boring. Short summaries or graphs are quick and easy, but then as a high level rider, perhaps you don't want to give away much? Not something I have to contend with, yet

musette

It looks remarkably like mine! See http://muse-ette.blogspot.com

Bless blogger.com templates!

Unless you're looking for a particular audience, or ad revenue, I think you should do with it as you will (subject to libel laws, decency, etc). It's your blog and people are free to read it or not.

Personally I started blogging as a bit of fun. I write and/or post what I feel like when I have the urge. I am constantly amazed people actually read it! I have ads on there but you wouldn't want to be depending on that for an income. I've clocked up about €10 in almost a year from Google ad clickthroughs.

anthony_walsh

Cheers I appreciate the feedback. It's the first blog i have attempted to write so it's nice to know what people find interesting, engaging etc.

Will try incorporate the feeb back into future blog posts

garminguy

i liked it.

would be great if you kept it up throughout the year, it gives us peasants an insight into the experiences of a top level cyclist

on a different note, i followed this years ras for a few stages, and on two of the stages some of the ucd team were well behind the main peleton, the never dropped the head and plugged away.

looking forward to seeing the team in next years race