runners world says letsrun is a joke

big shots can't get over that we trolls don't respect their achievemeb=nts

i don't care how fast you ran or went to law school

I still think the guy who weaved in the 'Werewolves of London' theme into that thread deserves a medal of some sort.

LetsRun.com is the Commedia Dell'Arte of the running world: saucy, petty, disrespectful, malicious as well as often dead-on with its perceptions and funny as h*ll.

Why don't you?

There's something really pathetic about starting off your article with whining about a internet forum thread (whose site you couldn't be bothered to spell correctly). I'm calling you out, RT writer, for lazy writing.

This is the thread the author is referring to:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4240266

It got "hot" on LetsRun.com last week.

After the second post it was apparent it was a bunch of trolls attempting to troll, but I didn't see it as trying to be in a negative way. "I heard he took his talents to south beach..."

They were doing a pretty good job of trolling so I left it up. It had morphed almost into a Jason Rexing type thread and it was apparent from the responses that people knew what the purpose of the thread had become.

I figured, "These guys are pretty clever, if you can't figure out what this thread is about, then you just don't get it."

And we have the "Report a Post" feature for posts people find objectionable. I don't see any posts in that thread that were reported that we didn't remove.

German Fernandez gets his fair share of criticism but that's because people know his talent, know what he has done in the past and want him to do well in the future. Sure some of it is over the top but it's that way in every sport people care about. LeBron James is arguably the best basketball player on the planet and he gets ripped everywhere.

Our sport is so off the radar, the assumption by some is we're all supposed to be positive. That includes fans and journalists. In our sport most of the journalists are more fans than anything else and that's why you see them clapping at the end of press conferences in Daegu and posing for pictures with the athletes.

You think Boston Red Sox fans are full of positivity now on the Red Sox forums?

I do love it when I meet people and they feel the need to say, "I don't go to the forums" or they don't go "very often." Why would I care? That's their choice, but usually when they say that I don't believe them. Why say it?

And for the record, Matt McCue didn't say LetsRun.com is a joke. He asked why no one had anything positive to say. I think the answer is pretty apparent. The thread was taken over by trolls.

Well said, Wejo.

If you think it sucks when people are talking about you on Letsrun, it's gonna suck a lot more when they stop talking. Your career, for all intents and purposes, will likely be over.

The real joke is people that let LR threads bother them. Geez I'm starting to question my RT subscription. As wack as RW is, I don't see a lot of whining from college runner coddlers in there. I'm starting to favor the 4:30 marathoner over the FL champ that gets worse in college then whines about people they don't know to RT. Waaaaaaa!!!!!

RT is just using LR to get attention.

Word is RT and RW ae losing tons of cash due to the internet.

Word is the trust funded fanboy sites are losing tons of looks / hits / views to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, Wordpress, Smugmug, and Google+.

wejo wrote:

They were doing a pretty good job of trolling so I left it up.

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And for the record, Matt McCue didn't say LetsRun.com is a joke. He asked why no one had anything positive to say. I think the answer is pretty apparent. The thread was taken over by trolls.

For the record, and probably the soon-to-be-deleted one, you've just placed self-admission that LetsRun.com is a actually LetsTroll.com, or equal to at the very least. You seemingly applaud that fact as well, which is your prerogative as owner/administrator.

Now, as an avid message board reader/poster and fan of a well placed lure I enjoy the levity generated by LetsRun.com. That being said, this spade's a bloody spade...and we're all aware of it (which is why most of us haven't matured and abandoned the site).

The only real question to be had is, did Matt McCue just pull off the grandest troll of all? Start a fire, spread the flames, call the fire department, and then sit back and laugh? Well played.

I used to think the Let's Run forums were a bit of a joke too; because it's so anonymous, people don't censor themselves and there is a lot of immaturity here. But now that it's been a few months, I actually prefer this forum to Runner's World. I've learned a lot about injuries, training, how really fast people train, the track world, and many elite runners who are never discussed on RW. I am also very entertained by the honestly on the non-running threads ie. Post-nuptual shut-off etc.

I think that there are far more trolls on Let's Run, but also more posts from "serious runners" and runners who seriously follow elite running.

Who cares what they program hobby jobbers to think?

Wejo FTW. Well said!

Rec Runner x wrote:

RT is just using LR to get attention.

From whom?

Wisenheimer wrote:

Rec Runner x wrote:

RT is just using LR to get attention.

From whom?

You obviously.

"...inevitably some 24-minute 5K’er sitting in his parents’ basement in Iowa will opine that German "doesn't have it" anymore and a rush of message board posters will chime in and agree."

ROFL What a d-bag

If you don't like the LRC message boards, don't read them. And I don't think 24 minute 5k'rs frequent this site as much as the do Running Times or Running World.

that Matt McCue guy also wrote that "Honorable Run" book where he talks about running for Colorado. He is a decent writer, but the whole intro part where he runs a "10k" at Mt. Sac in like 29:30 is a total letdown (you'll find out why if you get to the end)

chipofftheoldknee wrote:

that Matt McCue guy also wrote that "Honorable Run" book where he talks about running for Colorado. He is a decent writer, but the whole intro part where he runs a "10k" at Mt. Sac in like 29:30 is a total letdown (you'll find out why if you get to the end)

No, he is not a decent writer. Maybe to the half-awake, half-literate waterhead who typifies the Letsrun.com/Letruns.com poster he appears to be, much as a knock-kneed, pot-bellied wheezer struggling to break 19:00 for 5K thinks that 15:00 is an elite time.

Running Times has gradually sunk toward the level of its peers. I don't know if this is because of Rodale's acquisition of the magazine or the result of other factors, but I wish Gordon Bakoulis had never left. Now it's basically a trail-running magazine with the occasional recycled training advice. Then again maybe I've been around too long and reading too much to give anything credit for being new or decent.

No one should need a magazine to understand that Letsrun.com is for the most part run by and for idiots. The smart people who frequent the place are at their worst in this environment; it's as if the site is the Internet counterpart to the corner of the ballroom where dignified ladies go to let a few stinkyfarts out before returning to haute couture behavior.

LetsRun has Canova. Running Times has Matt McCue. LetsRun has Malmo. Running Times has Jay Johnson. LetsRun has Cabral. Running Times has Jason Karp. EDGE? Letsrun (but only because of Canova).

But, honestly, Canova is the ONLY reason I come here (to the forum). His posts are priceless! They are such a window into elite training.

Hell, Brad Hudson pretty openly says he "stole" everything he knows from meeting (on LetsRun) & studying with/under Canova. Gotta give LetsRun for providing that opportunity.

Am I going to take advice from anonymous posters? Probably not. Someone suggested "log in" names. I wonder if that would change things. I suspect this site would lose a lot of the juvenile antics.