coolrunning.com SUCKS!

Use an online running log that let's you save your entries to your local computer (maybe in xml or something). Or....just use excel.

Did a Google search and it turns out the same clowns who run that site have been screwing up the formerly well run Bay State Marathon and Half and 10k. Did another Google search and as it happens you should never rely on anyone's server to store vital info including your own, keep a file on your system. Yes I know it's TLTL for that now but still. But don't most sites so a server backup nightly, what the FUCK is wrong with Cool Running? A third Google search reveals that they run their site on a shoe string budget and that except for the tons of results it sucks anyway. Just the ads alone are a turnoff. But what do I know, I'm just one more ass hole with 20-20 backward vision.

That's a lot of donkey miles lost to the ages.

Holy cow, yeah, I had mentioned a lot of running recently on some posts I made there. I was gonna go through my posts there to add up my mileage to send to my college coach so I can tell him how much I've ran since may 1. by the way, my handle there is MadXC. A local running store that I go to sells running diaries that have everything I want. The word diary implies gay, I have nothing against gays but if they called it a running journal I would have bought the stupid thing 2 months ago. Now I'm gonna have to buy something called a "diary." I could put it all on my computer or buy a blank notebood, but I figured getting ripped off would give me the incentive to actually use the stupid thing so I don't feel like I'm wasting my money by buying something called a diary.

Johnson, some folks are calling me a crybaby but I swore to never go back there. People say "well it was a free log blah blah blah"

Why patron a site (and view their adds) if they cannot provide a service and keep up their end of the deal?

Fuck those inept bastards. I wrote them an angry email. I'll never go back.

That site sucks.

dude... it's all back... weird sh*t..................

it did let me export to excel, so i still have most of it, minus a month or so. its the principle of the thing. email them and tell them how much they suck 8-).

if you love something.....set it free

My running log never went down. I guess coolrunning was just trying to purge all of the LOSERS from their system.

Instead of blaming them why don't you blame yourself for trusting them. It was your choice to use their system, and it didn't pay off. You chose to do it. Maybe you can work for them and make the system better, or move on. No need to whine. :D

any webbased services should be dependable and have backup systems in place. that is just common sense nowadays on the internet. i have more than enough reason to be pissed about it.

Don't worry, be happy...hahaha

If you want them to have backups systems in place why don't you have your own backup systems in place?

might i suggest some eastern philosophy reading for collegejohnson, specifically in the area of detatchment.

Dude, they made a mistake. Get over it and stop acting like such a baby.

But since you brought it up, they did have a backup system in place. Due to things beyond their control, it failed.

To err is human, to forgive is divine

By staying mad you are proving something to us...prove something else!

collegejohnson wrote:

any webbased services should be dependable and have backup systems in place. that is just common sense nowadays on the internet. i have more than enough reason to be pissed about it.

Boy I'll say you do. Did you demand they return all the money you paid them for their running log service?

Apparently some people managed to retrieve their logs. Worth a try anyway.

http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/Forum3/HTML/021559.shtml

If you want another on-line running log, try www.athleticore.com.