Active Community: Message List - new mid-age forum

new mid-age forum

guest — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:35:00 GMT

the addition of a new forum in between the "way Cool" and the "40+" forums (for those of us not quite plodding penguins, yet who tire of the same high school ?'s) would be nice. Something maybe for the post college 20-30 y.o. crowd. I see something like this was suggested back in Nov, 2006 also. Thanks.

[http://This message has been edited by BirdDoggin (edited Feb-20-2007).|http://This message has been edited by BirdDoggin (edited Feb-20-2007).]

Re: new mid-age forum

guest — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:18:00 GMT

quote:
Originally posted by Howard Roark:
Unless there are specific physiological challenges that are unique to a certain age bracket, there's no need to create a forum for that age bracket. Age is an amazingly poor predictor of running speed and there are newbies of all ages. So what's the point of a 20's or 30's forum?

There may not be specific physiological challenges for the age group identified by the original poster, but I would say there are specific life challenges. If I was looking for others juggling their running with work, graduate school, and parenting small children, I would suspect that, although not limited to solely this age group, a large number would fall into this age bracket.

If you look at the posts from the existing age group forums, I would argue that many posts are about the life challenges/psychological factors affecting their running rather than physiological ones. These age group forums offer an opportunity to connect with others likely to be facing the same challenges. The fact that there are regular threads for "20s," "30s," in the newbie cafe suggests that there is indeed a desire to connect with others in this age bracket.

Re: new mid-age forum

guest — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:20:00 GMT

Unless there are specific physiological challenges that are unique to a certain age bracket, there's no need to create a forum for that age bracket. Age is an amazingly poor predictor of running speed and there are newbies of all ages. So what's the point of a 20's or 30's forum?

Re: new mid-age forum

guest — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:47:00 GMT

I'd like to see a 30's column too - I'm 37.

Sherie

Re: new mid-age forum

guest — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:12:00 GMT

I run with a 54 year old that runs a 2:28 marathon. Age is not a reliable predictor of speed.