Sorry, Evanflein, it is my butt. Walking back to the car from Pacific Shoreline race last February.

That reminds me. PDR needs an avatar now. Hmm...

Yeah, thus far, I'm happy here and was totally turned off by the whole shake up at Active.com/CR. I miss the sense of community at Boomers and Beyond yet feel as though this forum may be able to match the sense of home that I felt at B and B. Chris

Welcome runner67, you can sit at the big table now.

It seems that the folks with strong opinions about recent issues have sorted themselves into a few segments. One is that the CR/Active site is just so broken they can't stand it any more and/or they just don't like the "big bad corporation" approach of Active. Tramps seems to be very much in this camp. Then there is the group who just loves this clean look of RA and the familiar faces here and have vowed that this is now the place to be. I know that DH is in this group and seems to be enjoying the influx of familiar faces. I know I really like the look and feel of this site also and I sure see his point of view. There is another group who have said that they are not biased for or against any site, but will keep all three options open, post where they feel like and see how things go. I am mostly in this group, as I am pretty loyal to the 50+ thread which for now is on Active. The Pro has posted similarly, and I see several people who are on all three. There is also a smaller group who have tried KR as an alternative to CR, but just didn't feel all that welcomed, and now like it here at RA. To be fair, Rich and Sierra were kind and accommodating to all and I know they will continue to be so, but unfortunately there is a small group at KR who I think would like to rename the site CliqueRunners (and keep it at "20 to 30 people"). I will still post on KR, because I don't have to concern myself with people there who don't care for me thanks to their lovely "Ignore" button! Most of the people there are good people, and I admire the ownership/management there. I also admire the small but loyal group who are staying at Active, such as JPGarland. They have my utmost respect and I like them all. I will continue to post there, particularly on the 50+ if Fred keeps it there. One lesson I have learned over the last few months of angst over all this, is that it is much more enjoyable to find what is good in the various sites, now that we have options, and we spend a lot of negative, needless energy running down the sites we don't like. I vow to not do it any more, having done so in the past. Let's go where we feel comfortable, let others go where they feel comfortable, and just enjoy the holidays. We can all be together on any site we choose and we know we are welcome on any of them. Spareribs

I also admire the small but loyal group who are staying at Active, such as JPGarland. They have my utmost respect and I like them all. I will continue to post there, particularly on the 50+ if Fred keeps it there.

I thought Fred put his 50+ thread on KR, although someone else also started one on Active. I'm a big fred urie fan and will visit whichever site he is on, but just for that one thread. Maybe we can get him over here.

I'm new to RA (tried CR a couple of times, but didn't stick around) and really like it. You all seem like nice folks, so I hope you'll make RA your home, too! I like knowing I'm not the only boomer out there running races. Sometimes I'm surprised how few women (comparatively) enter the races I do.

Teresapdf. That must be a Maine thing because down here in Virginia there are PLENTY of our age women running in the races. I originally came from Maine but definitely was not running back in those days.