Welcome to West End Running

This blog is set up as a team blog for the various running groups in the West End of Richmond (Short Pump area). Primarily, that would be the groups that trained together for the 2008 Patrick Henry Half Marathon but I'm game for anyone to participate.

Let me suggest some guidelines:

1. I can set anyone up as an author but would prefer to limit that privilege to folks who actually run with a West End group. An author can create a new post and edit his/her posts. New posts would start a new topic -- setting a time for a group run, setting a meeting place for a group run, soliciting running companions for a run, posting the route for a particular run, asking questions about running, posting advice about running (that's not in response to a posted question), posting information about races, posting information about special deals on gear, etc. We probably ought to be careful about hot button topics and stick to running-related stuff or to topics that we know are of interest.

2. Anyone can comment on a post. This would be the best way, for instance, to let the leader of a particular group run know that you will or will not run with the group on a given day. It's also the best way to respond to questions or requests for advice.

3. I would set up some key people as administrators. Administrators can add/remove authors and can edit anything -- at least any posts. I think an administrator can also delete obnoxious, offensive, irrelevant comments.

4. In the beginning, I would not set up any kind of challenge for comments -- no graphic-word to decipher and type in, no vetting of comments, etc. If the blog attracts spam or irresponsible postings, then that can always be tightened up later. However, my experience on my personal blog is that I haven't had trouble (maybe because only a very few people bother to read it).

If you want to be set up as an author, e-mail me at (shilingi dot moja at gmail dot com) and let me know how you relate to Richmond West End Running.

Run well, y'all,
Bob Allen