The future of MileSplit New Mexico

You might have been wondering...

With a little down time coming my way here in the summer, I want to have a conversation with you about MileSplit New Mexico.

During the fall of 2012, I started posting coverage to MileSplit New Mexico. I was doing a lot of looking at New Mexico results, anyway, when I was writing regional review articles for NXR-SW and it seemed to make a certain amount of sense.

The photos of Blake Wood and the articles of Teo Cutter and Nick Martinez helped make the site doable.

As is the way of things in life, however, jobs have a way of growing. More specifically, my job at Colorado Track XC has grown, making it more difficult by the month to keep MileSplit New Mexico alive on my own efforts. 

The bad news here is that my commitment to keeping MileSplit New Mexico alive will expire not later than Nike Cross Regionals on November 22 of this year. I simply cannot continue indefinitely taking on the burden.

The good news is that there is at least one person--someone local to New Mexico--exploring taking on the New Mexico site. If this possibility comes to fruition, I'll be handing over the MileSplit New Mexico site a lot sooner than November 22. Another piece of good news is that the hardest work of getting the site up, running, and visible is done. The work that remains is to grow this site in a way I simply do not have time for.

I can tell you that running a MileSplit site is hard work, but it's also a lot of fun. I just don't have time for all the fun in my life. And, it's far from a thankless job. I really was busy enough at Great Southwest that I wasn't looking to start conversations with much of anyone, but several of you sought me out an expressed appreciation for my work in running the site. That was very special. Thank you very much to those of you who took the time to say hello. And that is the common experience of MileSplit webmasters across the nation. 

I trust you will have your own in-state webmaster soon. That is what you deserve, and that is the end I am working toward. But, I am concerned both for my own time and for the fact that, if I don't cut the apron strings myself, it may never happen.

I like the trip down to New Mexico and have made a few of those trips in the last couple years. And, I do plan to make the trip--with my team this time--to the UNM Lobo Invite in September. If that means I end up doing coverage for that meet, so much the better. 

But, ultimately, you need one of your own running this show. I've been able to invest 5-10 hours a week into MileSplit New Mexico during the seasons the last couple of years. And you deserve more than that. It's a better show than that.

So, I'm hopeful all this might change soon.