Why I love letsrun

Awesome post.

I have long said the forum is what you talk about on a run with your buds. Sadly, I don't run with buds anymore. Every six months, I claim I'll get in shape, become part of the Bmore community and people email me and I just don't follow through.

I've lived here for almost 10 years now. Wow.

I love this site. I'm in a running group in Columbus but none of them have heard of LRC though. They are missing out on quite a bit...

rojo wrote:

Awesome post.

I have long said the forum is what you talk about on a run with your buds. Sadly, I don't run with buds anymore. Every six months, I claim I'll get in shape, become part of the Bmore community and people email me and I just don't follow through.

I've lived here for almost 10 years now. Wow.

This is a nice goal. Unfortunately the boards include more than occasional gestures toward Nazism, virulent racism, etc. Guess no one’s perfect, right?

Anyway, there’s good things on this site. Like yourself, many of the posters are funny people, generally unintentionally.

Agree with the OP 100%. It wasn't until I left high school and college running that I realized how bland the average person is. Runners seem to be an eccentric, intelligent, and intellectual bunch which leads to some pretty hilarious and interesting conversations.

One additional thought: it has never, ever been a better time to be a runner. The damn equipment finally exited the dark ages and good training advices are a click or an Amazon book away. Many PTs know their stuff and with the new shoes, fat old men can run 60 MPW snd not destroy joints. Running is cool, perhaps so because it finally sorta stopped caring it it was cool and that’s actually cool. The female’s preference for the GNC-protein-powder-creatinine-shiny-shirt man tit look is going away. She’s looking for The David now..

One of the great moments of LetsRun was when the moderators began editing/deleting posts on the famous “ Haiku” thread , to preserve the integrity of the website . Nothing worse than mean spirited Japanese poems.

nice goal!

i love it too, but mostly for the actual running content and the non-political off topic posts. this is by far the highest-caliber group of runners on the internet. many of their political takes are terrible, but that's the case for most americans. i've learned to stop clicking. when it comes to relationships, parenting, careers, and other stuff people generally have better takes.

It’s a great site with a few lame arse moderators, deleting running related posts that they think are too controversial - any kind of weight stuff, instantly nixed.

i dont care. I love it wrote:

One additional thought: it has never, ever been a better time to be a runner. The damn equipment finally exited the dark ages and good training advices are a click or an Amazon book away. Many PTs know their stuff and with the new shoes, fat old men can run 60 MPW snd not destroy joints. Running is cool, perhaps so because it finally sorta stopped caring it it was cool and that’s actually cool. The female’s preference for the GNC-protein-powder-creatinine-shiny-shirt man tit look is going away. She’s looking for The David now..

This.

Most people wouldn't say a lot of these things in Corporate America, but on a group run they have debates over politics, etc. That is why I don't think this site is toxic or harmful at all. What is said in the group run stays in the group run.

I love the straight, no-holds barred talk on here. Just a bunch of folks blowing off steam talking about running. If anything the most bashed individuals on these boards are Rojo and company.

I like the site as well but I seriously miss hotness threads.

There is something healthy and wonderful about female runners and it's sad we are not allowed to celebrate fit smart women

Its one of the last places online where you can have a contrary opinion and be upfront. Reddit is too hive minded and polite. I got banned from the nyc subreddit for posting an FBI crime report by race in the city as a response to a thread and was immediately banned and reported for racism.

Life is full of hard truths, and healthy contrarian dialog is necessary to find it.

Only similar place left on the internet is the bodybuilding.com misc forum. Everywhere else is owned by cuckerberg and his liberal technocrat elites or in reddits case, owned by China itself.

absolutely love this site and the message board

to me, it's unbelievable why people complain about it as it doesn't seem like a difficult situation to comprehend: either build a competitor or just stop coming here... why come if you're so appalled all the time?

i'm sure the brojos (who i often don't agree with on many points) don't need to hear it from me, but keep up the good work!

Well said, when you get past all of the trolls, politics, etc. LetsRun is a really fun site to explore. It's a library of information that anyone with an internet connection can use. 

It has people from different backgrounds giving advice to one another.  Not to mention the free coaching advice from many of the top distance coaches. 

I've seen many nice people on this forum. I know it may be hard to believe for some because a lot of the top posts on here are filled with politics and other controversial topics. I wish this message board was used the way it was meant to.