Do you post your workouts on Facebook? (Page 3)

This is exactly what I did.  Now I only post about my workouts if I've had a breakthrough, finished a race or something amusing happened.  It doesn't bother me when my friends post about their workouts.  Most of the ones who do are in the same place that I was a year and a half ago and it's good to see them getting out there and doing it.

Not when you can not see my log.

I am in the camp that posting your workouts on fb, with few exceptions, is kind of over-the-top and can be perceived as bragging.  But "defriending" someone is aggressive. 90% of the posts I see on fb I'm not particularly interested in....but it isn't that hard to just scroll down. If a good friend posted their workouts, I wouldn't defriend them. And I'm not sure I'd want to be "real" friends with someone that would.

Why would I post my workouts on FB when I use the training log on BT? For me, the reason I post my workouts is to remind myself when I am slacking, or to compare times on a given course over time. Using FB for this purpose would be like using FB as my dive log, and posting all the information there that my dive computer downloads into the desktop.

I use FB to keep up on the goings on of my kids and a few old friends, and to have another place beyond my hard drive, back up drive, and Picasa to back up favored photographs.

I also think posting every workout is either going to look like bragging about what a muscular workout stud I am, or akin to the posting every burp and fart, that I think everything that eminates from my body is of interest to others. I barely post comments, musings, or political rants there for pretty much the same reasons, unless I truly believe I am furthering a useful conversation. Or busting on the chops of one or two people who I know deserve it.

I never posted my workouts on fb (definitely not because it would sound like bragging - nothing to brag about here!) but because I figured no one would be interested.  Then, this summer I got a sponsorship and as part of it I agreed to use my social media outlets to talk about my own workouts and motivate others.  I worried that it would annoy my friends, but its just for the summer, so I'm doing it.

However, I've had so many people both on fb and in real life tell me how much fun they have hearing about my workouts and how it inspires them to train and maybe even race that I wonder why I wasn't posting all along! 

I also like to read about other people's workouts, so I'm happy when someone posts.