What year did you find this Site (letsrun)?

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2012 - I was going in to my junior year of HS and hoping that my dreams would become reality

results from that year BTW...

Can't remember, but it had just opened as tnfmedia (run by a former Arkansas miler) was in demise. 2000?

2003

The book of GenesIs...

1999 or 2000 during the old message board days. I used to be on the old UOregon listserv, then rungroteschief which became tnfmedia then this place.

Alan

Late 2001, I believe.

I used to be a regular on rec.running in the late-90s usenet days. Spent a few years there, getting to know some good people (Ozzie Gontang for one, an author and coach who sent me a book on running injuries and a shirt from the San Diego Marathon). Then usenet started to die and I found my way here one day.

I've posted under a few names, but have been "easy weeks" for a few years now.

2008. One of my friends mentioned that someone had broken the HSR in the two-mile, and I asked where he had heard that. He said, "Oh it was on letsrun."

Early 2009. I heard about Lukas Verzbicas running a 8:57 2 mile and 14:18 5k at indoor nats as a Freshman. I was amazed and wanted to learn more about him which led me to a couple LR threads.

I vaguely remember posting here during the 2000 Olympic Trials, at 17. The earliest posts I am sure are mine are from 2002.

B-Sample wrote:

Can't remember, but it had just opened as tnfmedia (run by a former Arkansas miler) was in demise. 2000?

I was a regular on another site in late 1999 or early 2000 and wejo/JK sauntered in and trolled/spammed for activity. I think they were sort of ignored but when tnfmedia went under letsrun filled the void.

Didn't post until the bloody aftermath of the the 2000 election. That's when the climate change debates started, and things haven't changed much. But the 2000 NCAA XC championships were a giant convening. We may have hated each other, but were bonded by love of the sport.

runningart2004 wrote:

The book of GenesIs...

1999 or 2000 during the old message board days. I used to be on the old UOregon listserv, then rungroteschief which became tnfmedia then this place.

Alan

Yes! Scheifer was the miler, Grote a distance guy, IIRC. I followed listserv (lotsa malmo on that) posted on tnfmedia then on here through the transition. I remember you posting, also a guy named BrianW? (different handle) who was prolific the first few years, and I believe Scott Douglas as well.

Hard to remember exactly. I started on rec.running, then I was on DRS and CVRT listservs for years stating early 90's, even running the CVRT list off one of my servers for a while when the main one crashed. DRS was cool back then, when John Parker, Hal Higdon, Don Kardong, Jon Sinclair, etc, all posting fairly regularly. It's also how John Bingham got started, well before he was in RW. I still have a copy of the old "bindlestiff and gandy-dancer" thread that was legend.

CoolRunning was cool for a while, as was the competitive running forum on RW. When the competitive running forum changed platforms and coloring got bought out, MERV got started and I hung out there until the right-wing crazies pretty much took over and it stopped being a running forum (like what's going on here now).

Around then someone sent me a link to a thread on letsrun, and I've been here on and off ever since. It would have been about a year or so before Hope died (the person, not the attitude), so if any former MERVites remember when that was it would give me a date. I'd guess 2000 or before, since I think one of the brojos was trying to get his OT time in the 10K.

2008 . I was looking for a site where I could enjoy racist, homophobic rants from other right-wing nut jobs with little fear of censorship from moderators. Google pointed me here.

Google's success is built on being providing users with the information they're looking for, quickly and accurately.

No idea, but it was years before I posted here, just read the articles...as the saying goes...

Note; as I predicted over 3 years ago, this board would be dead soon.

It is.

Could have been a place for community, instead the Texans prefer cynicism, negativity and divisiveness...

Thanks to the good folks who've stuck it out and still give newbies and advice seekers good info.

Enjoy The Sport.

2001. I saw the letsrun.com singlet that Anderson was wearing in the background when Webb broke 4:00 indoors. It was the cover of T &F News. Saw the singlet on the cover, went to the site.