The local NEPARunner board has certainly been entertaining lately! This RunningAhead NEPARunner board has been pretty quiet ever since most of us fell off the streaking wagon. (I think Danny, though, is still keeping up a streak!) This board could definitely use some chatter, and the more thoughtful and runner-oriented, the better, I figure. Maybe, though, we should change the title to something like Northeast Pennsylvania Runners, just so we don't mislead any new people who might want to join us. Kyle, if you're still on here, would you want to change this board's title?

Congratulations on the anniversary, and have a great time at Boston - you've earned it!

We are not excluding anyone. We like to talk about different training plans and how they work for different people. Anyone can participate as long as they are not there just to start a fight. We have banned no one. We are not picking fights with anyone. The only person doing the things listed above is the owner of the site, not us. We are not trolling just to stroke our egos, we are there to learn something about running. If you are the owner, you know that nullifying someone's login is in fact making it difficult for them to participate in the discussion. As far as I am concerned, any apologies should be handed out at the NEPA site and in a public forum. Jesse and Kyle should also be reinstated. The only thing we did was point out that the owner is just there to argue, that is a fair assertion. We all get bashed on the internet, some of us deal with it well and others just dwell on the experience. I don't see any of us dwelling on the past, but the owner is a different story. We all mentioned in a thread that we feel like we are not free to discuss training on a running board. That idea was mentioned by more than one person. It was also mentioned that the owner likes to start fights in those threads. Since the only person complaining about bashing is the owner, what does that tell you? We can handle bashing, but what we are no longer ready to deal with is the incessant trolling just to look for and find a fight. Fighting is not learning or sharing, it is trolling. I understand that discussions need to happen so that others may better understand things, but the owner is not starting fights to share knowledge, he does it to disrupt the discussion so others will lose interest and the thread will die. If it does not stop, then he kicks the person off of his site. The problem is, I was under the assumption that everything had been ironed out as even the owner had said so, and then I go back to find that three of us are no longer registered. I didn't do that. There is only one person there that has the power to do such a thing. The person that is capable of this is the same person that has a problem with starting fights at the site. It is the same person who has kicked people off in the past for not agreeing with his RW ideas and going deeper into the physiology of training. Wow. A pattern. All we want is to be able to talk about training at any level. Anyone can join, we never said they could not. If you do not feel like you are able to talk about the ideas involved in the discussion, then you are just as free to skip a thread as you are to join a thread. That is the idea that seems lost on the owner. HE WILL NOT JUST LET US BE. No one owns the internet. There is not one single person that controls this place. That is the reality that needs to sink in.

FIRST DANNY BOY, somebody TOLD me that I was mentioned on this board!!! So Danny who are you? With your righteous bullshit!!! Why don’t you ask why Wilmona is posting? Seems like she doesn’t have a log going either. Maybe being a bit unfair and partial yourself. Should I go down the list and see what other runners post here do not maintain a log? Are you going to say that I have no right to respond to a posting that mentions me. Again we got a case of exclusion. You know what makes me sick is wise people like you who feel that runners have to be competitive. You want to be competitive that’s fine. Don’t go rubbing my nose in anything. I might not be the fastest or even the most competitive, but I do stick up for EVERY runner. Whether it’s the guy getting off the coach who wants to run a marathon or the runner who just doesn’t have the time and has to train less. I want them to realize that you don’t have to be highly competitive to take part in are sport of running. I also am against runners who push the notion if your not doing 100 mpw your not doing what is needed and I especially don’t appreciate it when a runner who has shinsplints for five years is going to give advice on how not to have shin splints. And for the record, I was thinking about this today, why do I not participate in a log like the one here? Because I just don’t have the time. I have a hard time even keeping one on paper. My log this year has a lot of empty space, not that I didn’t run, I just never got to it. And I have to bet that’s a reason why lots of runners don’t take part, that and they just might feel intimidated because their numbers just don’t live up to yours and other standards! You know were not real runners!

By the way, I now see that Willamona log is available. It was not when I visited the page several times earlier. Call me a liar if you want, but why would I lie about something like that!