FWIW, I don't know why this thread seems slow, but that is not the general experience in user groups here.  They are generally as lightning fast as the regular board.  I would ask The Man Upstairs (eric) to ponder this if you like.  This isn't RWOL and stuff actually gets looked at behind the scenes here.

Also, welcome.  We already HAD a Marathon Training user group and a sub-3 thread in the main forum, but the more the merrier.