I'm sorry, but I fail to see how breaking up the boards into 2 different sections is going to really slow anyone down. Here's the deal: many of us want to only read running related topics. Currently, many of those topics get pushed into obscurity as completely irrelevant topics by "peeps", "rick kid", etc. etc. dominate the boards. Hey, I realize there is a large audience for those posts, but it would make things soooo much easier to put those into a 'non-running' related section.
Please, for any future posts on this subject, refrain from saying "leave as is". Instead, change your vote to "running and non-running related". It's just that easy.