Discussion: Creep

I don't think most Attackpointers think of it that way since it's an entirely open forum with no "friend requests" like Facebook. If we aren't OK with the occasional stranger reading our logs, then we should install training software on our own computer and keep it all offline.

In fact, having lots of "log hits" is considered to be a good thing on AP. You get marks for it!
http://www.attackpoint.org/points.jsp?metric=9

Well, that's good to hear. My daughter was throwing around the word creeper and all of a sudden I thought, Oh no!

Hey, you're right up there! Didn't know about the rating.

Much to my embarrassment, I'm rated #1 in Discussion, i.e. making comments like this and comments in the AP discussion forum. Fortunately, it appears that I'm about to be overtaken, and I'm really happy about that!

Here are your ratings. Not bad for a new user!
http://www.attackpoint.org/userprofile.jsp/user_53...

When I first read my userprofile I mistook the ranking numbers for actual numbers and thought I didn't have 745 training hours in the past year! Guess I'm not too smart late at night ;)

'Bent was #1 in training hours for quite awhile in the old days, back when a number in the 600+ hr range was enough to be on top. There was even a brief time where I was #2 to him. But those days are *long* gone for both of us! We used to get a lot of hours by doing overnight or multi-day adventure races, but we haven't done one in a long time.

I don't know how many users attackpoint has but you guys still seem to be up there. I'm surprised at the different nationalities.

When I first joined in 2005, AP was mostly an orienteering community, and it felt a bit radical to be joining! But we were early in a wave of adventure racers, triathletes and other multi-sport athletes who saw the benefits of AP and now constitute a significant minority percentage of users. At some point a couple of years ago, it was discovered by the folks Down Under, and then the number of users really grew.

Personally, I'm a real numbers person and like to write things down as a way to see my accomplishments so Ap has been perfect for that.Added benefit is that , at a glance, you can see where you've been slacking and perhaps overtraining. Plus the coloured bar graphs are cool :)

Plus, plus, some people (wink wink) are a wealth of knowledge and very friendly!

:-) There are a lot of people out there to learn from, whether we ask them questions or just watch what they do. I feel self-conscious when my training is down (as it is lately) because I know that other people are watching and saying, "tsk, tsk". And that's a good thing!

Motivation comes from different areas.