Changes/Additions to Web Site

Hello all...Just wanted to fill everyone in on some changes/additions to VMIKeydets.com.

We've heard your concerns regarding several of the ads on our web site, particularly the pesky Virginia Beach that has inundated the Internet recently, and now we've taken action...JumpTV (the company that hosts VMIKeydets.com) has told us that, although they cannot completely eliminate the ad, they can take it off certain pages and greatly reduce how often it shows up everywhere else. That should be done by now, although it could take some time to filter down to you, the user.

Secondly, our summer blog will debut Sunday morning..."Logging Miles", a blog discussing the summer training for cross country, will be a bi-weekly feature to begin, but is expected to move to a weekly column in late July. It's a work in progress, but we hope you enjoy having some original summer content on the web site!

Speaking of track and cross country, we've added some new features to the track and cross country pages. If you check out the left-hand menu bar, we've put in some interesting links that we'll show here as well - If you're watching a blog or twitter feed from a meet, and the marks are given only in metric (or only in English), you can use this link to easily convert them.

If you're new to track and field, and wanting to learn about the logistics or history of a race, a good, basic place to start is at Wikipedia's Track and Field article, linked here (is listed as "Track and Field Primer" on Keydets.com). Finally, if you're following the exploits of the cross country teams next fall, and want to know how the meets are scored, we've given you a full tutorial here. Again, these are all accessible from the sport menu bars at VMIKeydets.com, giving a central access point for all these useful items.

There are a couple of other things we're working on and throwing around, but they're still in the planning stages, for the most part. We'll post more about them as they get more solidified.