Who all is here and what are you doing? (Read 16052 times)

Jdub...Toledo, OH? Me too...in fact I'm one of your HS teammates! Wild! Glad you're back into things. Let me know if you want to get together to run sometime! You can contact me on myspace (link is on my profile), or tell Iott. He knows how to get ahold of me. Later man!

Hi everybody, I'm a displaced Pittsburgher currently living in the Boston 'burbs. As with many others here, I've been using the site for a few months now and only recently started posting to the forums. Back in high school, I used to run as cross-training for swimming, and then I ran some in college. Unfortunately, I didn't keep it up once I finished undergrad. After a few short-lived tries at getting back into it over the past few years, I finally started running for real again last March. By the end of the Summer, I had done a 21:26 5k, and I'm looking to do more of them this year. My goal is to break 20:00 this year. I originally started thinking about better ways of logging my running last Summer, and was unhappy with what I found at other sites. I wanted a little more than Excel, so I started thinking about writing my own site... then, lo and behold, I found this site! Eric has really done a wonderful job with this site. I work with a bunch of people who run, and I've recommended this site to all of them. Happy trails, Josh

Hi to all! Even though I've posted a few times, I'm pretty new here! My husband, my 7 & 4 yr old sons and I live on the west side of Michigan near the lake and the dunes! The gorgeous scenery here itself is motivation enough to get out the door and move!! Lots of places to run too! Long ago (~18 yrs...*ack!*) I ran regularly but somehow running took a back seat to all of life's other distractions. I'll spare the excuses! Now, though, I stay at home, hubby has a flexible schedule, and our little one is finally in school, so we're able to actually go out together! Ontop of that, we have awesome trails right out our door. We've vowed to not let that go to waste! It's practically like we've been given the perfect set of circumstances, so how could we NOT take advantage!? We're very fortunate. It's pretty cool now, too, that this time around I have an ocassional little running buddy- my 7 yr old! My goal for the spring for myself is to do a 5k and I hope to get him into a race or two as well! His enthusiasm is contagious! Speaking of, even though I haven't posted a lot yet, I've read a lot, and the information and enthusiasm here are reallly motivationing! I'm glad to have been pointed in this site's direction (thanks again to zoom zoom!). I'm really looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you!!

Hello, I'm John and I'm from the Boston area and I'm also new to this site. I've been running for the past 4 years or so. I had put on a bunch of weight during and after college and I really wanted to do something about it, so I went outside and starting running. Slowly, but surely, I've continued. I just started logging my runs in a notebook about a month ago after my first 8K race and then I found this site and I moved out of Bedrock and into the World Wide Web. My goals for the year are to reach 1,000 miles, finish grad school, and run a marathon. This is a great site! It's informative and motavational (is that a word when it's not followed by "speaker"???). -John

I found this place from a message board at runners world. I clicked on someones running log and ended up here and I really liked the way the running log looks so I started mine here last week. Anyway, I live north of Boston and run because I can. I'm a 44 year old male and run all over the north shore. I run trail and road and a combo of both.

Bill, Mark and others, Welcome! I was just scanning a few of the early entries of this thread (started in May of '05) and thinking about how far everyone has come since then. Please post early and often to share your experiences, celebrations, pains, etc. Lynn B

Welcome all newcomers!!! jlynnbobn is right, runners get better here! Hey runchicrun, "It's the new myspace. But with graphs, a faster site, and people who influence in positive ways.". Well put.