A poster on my other thread got me thinking about the origin of Letsrun.com. I done some research and found this stuff.
This is the earliest homepage i could find. It's from June 2000.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000621161105/http://www.letsrun.com/
At this time. The website was struggling to survive with threats of closure.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010602205321/http://www.letsrun.com/forum/
And here is a view of the old messageboard. I love Wejo's thread title about Ritz's race being broadcast on radio. Looks like the radio broadcast went down as xcrunner5000 is asking "what happened to the broadcast". Not much has changed here, only technology.