There's a lot you can do to enhance your enjoyment of a MileSplit site. Here's a quick tour guide of several possibilities.
1. Become a registered user. Sure, you can lurk from now until the next century, if you live that long, but you'll be missing out on a few things. Establishing a user account allows you to participate in the forum, tag photos and articles, customize your personal page (if you're an athlete, or you son's/daughter's page if you're a parent), or develop your team page (if you're a coach). If you like taking photos, you can also post meet photos on the site, but there's more about this coming in another point below.
2. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, subscribe on YouTube. If you do, you'll find out about many of our articles through notifications as they break. Your engagement with the site will help others to learn of the site.
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3. Explore the various links on the Stats page. It's been said that baseball is the ultimate stats sport, but that's only because you have so much time to think about stats between the moments of action in a baseball game. You'll be amazed at the options available under the Stats menu. Poke around in there and see what you find--you won't hurt anything.
4. Take pictures at meets and add them to the meet page. You have to be a registered user to do this, but everyone likes to look at (and tag) meet photos. Become the person with a camera that people love to see coming to their meets. To post your photos, simply login, go to the meet page, and click on the Add Your Photos link. A photo upload utility will appear to guide you through the process.
5. Do you need some published writing experience to add to your resume (or possibly even as a college internship)? Then do some meet coverage or interview pieces for this site. Please contact me about this before you dive in head first, however.
6. Compare meet results from year to year using MileSplit analysis tools, This more or less falls under the same idea as Stats, but is accessed differently. Go to any meet page and find the links for previous years' meets under Meet History. You can see at a glance how much faster or slower a meet ran than any previous year for which results are available.
7. Get on the forum. Tell us what you like and don't like (just be pleasant about it). Give shout outs to notable performers across the state.
It's all part of the fun, but remember that you only get out of something in measure with what you put into it.