Cool Running is GONE

Only used their site for the calculator mostly. Really liked it, that’s too bad.

I used the results pages frequently, too bad.

minde15 wrote:

When you try and go to cool running the following ahows up...

https://landing.activenetwork.com/cool-running-faq/

No warning whatsoever by active... Discuss

All the archived are gone to and won't be transferred to the new website. If there wasn't enough reason for the running community to dislike Active with their shady practices, now they abruptly remove Cool Running with no warning or notice.

Wow.

I loved coolrunning for its vast archive and simple interface. This is a huge loss for me.

Active on the other hand is slow, cumbersome, difficult to see full results, and limited on historical data.

They say the excuse is "privacy laws in America and abroad". Would anyone here have any idea what laws they're breaking and how..? I like privacy laws but name & finish time dont seem to be too invading...

Coolrunning was the place to be until they bought Kicksports in 2001, which brought along a bunch of non-runners who spammed their message boards to death and disrespected real runners. A little while later Letsrun came along, and real runners started spamming that message board to death, but it didn't die.

Hmmm, I used that pace calculator all the time when figuring out things for the kids I coach. It was flexible and switched back and forth between unknowns and units easily.

Does anyone have any good substitute suggestions?

The Active one looks similar but only allows pace in minutes per mile or minutes per kilometer. Not a terribly difficult conversion to make, but having time per 400m was pretty convenient.

A remnant of the old 'Clubhouse' still exists here: http://chrunners.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=305441b6c988481d522f04af9c5fab1c&action=forum

Man, this sucks. If Active gave a sh*t about anything besides squeezing money out of our sport, they would've ported the old results over.

Had Some Myself wrote:

Hmmm, I used that pace calculator all the time when figuring out things for the kids I coach. It was flexible and switched back and forth between unknowns and units easily.

Does anyone have any good substitute suggestions?

The Active one looks similar but only allows pace in minutes per mile or minutes per kilometer. Not a terribly difficult conversion to make, but having time per 400m was pretty convenient.

ACTIVE purchased it? When - I remember a handful of years ago I noticed some homepage changes (though I stuck to the results areas) etc.

Didn't keep up with the ownership/operation specs

I'd be happy to build a pace conversion calculator myself, do you have the old url still? That way I could look at a cached version of the tool as a template.

I think I found it - can you verify that this is the calculator you are talking about?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ETQ0KpMlXyoJ:www.coolrunning.com/engine/4/4_1/96.shtml+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is a cached version of the calculator page. As far as I can tell, it still works! I'm not really sure how much we can rely on a cached page still working for us. I'm gonna build a similar tool for posterity. But you can bookmark that link above and keep coming back for the time being.

Meat Train 1-2!

I am truly upset about this. Are they seriously saying they’ve just completely wiped out the entire results archive? They had thousands and thousands of race results that can’t be available anywhere else.

The privacy and legal excuse they give is TOTAL BS. Active.com is certainly compliant with the new CCPA and might even be GDPR compliant (although not certain they even need to be). No reason they couldn’t have migrated the results over in a compliant way.

It’s just unbelievable to me that they’d just erase all of this.

Does anyone know if an archive site is available or any way to essentially reverse this?

lunitari.com

Trail Zealot wrote:

I think I found it - can you verify that this is the calculator you are talking about?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ETQ0KpMlXyoJ:www.coolrunning.com/engine/4/4_1/96.shtml+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

This is a cached version of the calculator page. As far as I can tell, it still works! I'm not really sure how much we can rely on a cached page still working for us. I'm gonna build a similar tool for posterity. But you can bookmark that link above and keep coming back for the time being.

Don't worry about it, I did it years ago. Lunitari.com

On the scholastic side, MileSplit is the easy answer to replace Cool Running as the ability to have content and live stream sort of makes other suitors like DA and A-Net irrelevant.

Who takes over on the road racing side though? Active seems like the easy answer but their disregard of all of Cool Runnings historical data and history make me want to look elsewhere. Race Find looks promising but elementary errors and oversights hurt credibility (they're missing some major marathons and have some majors cities listed twice). Run Guides' scope is pretty limited. Anyone have any suggestions?

Runcalc.net

I'm lucky because I saved the full results of the few races I have run. Taking such an extensive and valuable results archive and putting it on the curb two minutes before the garbage truck comes is a reprehensible thing to do. Gone forever without warning. I hope anybody who does business with Active Network will consider finding an alternative,

Yeah, it's ass. Does anyone know of a website with a similar pace calculator, that will calculate paces for any distance down to a 100th of a second, at different splits? Most pace calculators on other websites, especially the one that replaced Coolrunning (Active.com) are trash, and will only calculator mile/km splits or something stupid like that.