Letsrun.com a "cesspool"?

TAFN are rich fan boys who don't make any money on T&F like LR.

If you're talking about the message boards on LR, I'd say it's a pretty accurate description. There are some diamonds floating in the cesspool, but sometimes you have to look pretty hard to find them.

the notre dame football press box is full of unpaid fan boys with real jobs on weekdays or mommy and daddy's money the same as the track and field pressbox. lets & trac are no different than nd fb. trac is nice and helps volunteer aficionados with photography credentials and even wets their beak with $125 for a cover picture, $50 for an inside picture, while the other trac mags/webs pay zero. that's better than nothing in a cheap sport like t&f.

I've read and posted on both message boards. LR is largely unmonitored and anonymous, therefore there is a lot of mud slinging (to put it mildly). TFN has almost none of that because it is monitored and NOT anonymous. When given the opportunity to throw out wild accusations and horrible insults without fear of retribution, the worst of us will do it with reckless abandon. And the worst of us appear to frequent LR.

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Anonymous

Bill Huntington wrote:

"To call letsrun.com a cesspool is an insult to cesspools." - quote from poster on Track and Field News message board. in response to another poster.

Jealousy.

Track and Field News message board is boring.

re: Letsrun.com a "cesspool"?

You are correct!

In spite of that, I enjoy the service it provides; sometimes you have to take the bad with good. You have to assume that the:

-The Webb, Rupp bashers

-Bigots

-All pro athletes are on drugs

-Ultra conservative (Obama is anti American, muslim, -socialist, hasn't done anything right)

-Nike is the anti Christ

...are a bunch of wantabe, running scrubs, pimple faced, underachieving teenagers whose only claim to fame is their ability to type crap. You have to assume that they are a couple of indivudals and don't represent the running community/Letsrun at large. That's what you have to tell yourself to not walk away from Letsrun.com.

Letsrun is an intellectual cesspool. The rampant irrationalism out here is a reflection of the fact that running itself is an irrational activity.

RoseKnows wrote:

The only thing that draws me to letsrun is the comprehensive news feeds they get and deliver to their readers.

There's news too?

I only come here for the pictures.

new company wrote:

Letsrun is an intellectual cesspool. The rampant irrationalism out here is a reflection of the fact that running itself is an irrational activity.

That's a pretty ironic statement, considering it isn't very rational, itself.

Tell me now: how many subscriptions does the self-proclaimed "bible of the sport" have? And what is the trajectory of those subs?

Things that make you go hmmm...

Marlow is part of the problem, not part of the solution. The best runners today are making the runners from the 1980s appear as if they are handicapped. These are truths which Garry Hill may not be able to understand as time passes.

no one is forced to go on lets run

stop trying to get your mom to protect you on the play ground

bad hammy wrote:

Get Real Real wrote:

Nice call.

Gary Hill is a good guy.

The brojo's?

Not so much.

(Based on observing the behavior and attitudes of all 3.)

Come on, Marlow...er....Tafnut...your style is obvious.

I am not a member of the TFN forums. Can't be bothered to add another username and password to my life at the speed of thought lifestyle.

I have however worked with GH, dined with him on several sides of the planet, run into him in public and lunched with him impromptu.

He is a good guy.

Anyone who knows my moniker here and my direct opinions would know that if GH was a Dbag in real life, I'd sure as hell state it.

He's not.

He's a good dude.

Sunningdale wrote:

Get Real Real wrote:

Nice call.

Gary Hill is a good guy.

You need to check his driving record. NOT a good guy at all.

LOL. Have no idea of his driving record. Haven't heard anything.

Irregardless, as a person I've worked around, at major meets worldwide, dined with, shot the sh*t about TF history.

He's a good dude.

The verbal jousting that occurs on Letsrun.com is essentially all about the clashing internal dynamics of the distance running community. Who is being used as a “tool”, who is acting like a “tool” and who looks like a “tool”, is all brought to the surface. Duplicity is rampant and all gossip leads to inflation of some kind!

Irregardless is not a word

Irregardlessly wrote:

Irregardless is not a word

You wouldn't understand all them long words anyways.