I hope the CoolRunning MAF group can all stick together and not jump ship before we figure out the bugs associated with the CoolRunning conversion...

I've learned a lot over the past few years and will be at a complete loss without the sound training advise. I have picked up a lot from all the MAF-greats, yet have more to learn. Im still a rookie and have a long way to go.

As a fellow MAF trainer I have finally learned to not worry about training speed or become affected/ influenced by others always passing me on long training runs (thanks to Jimmy, Jesse, Ahammer, LRNick and all others). This unique training is humbling to say the least, but the MAF-greats have convinced me its the right training approach.

Who else can I share thoughts and opinions with when my entire marathon training program(s) are based on running at 10:30 - 12 minute miles. The rest of the running world thinks its crazy and all junk miles.

Thanks for showing up and trying to calm us down, but unfortunately you're the first person from active that I've seen around. I honestly think you would have been better off keeping the forums down longer and putting them back up in one piece. It was disappointing enough that you had the forums down for days, but then bringing them back up in this kind of shape . . . not the best idea. Obviously months of planning went into the migration, because I've been receiving e-mails from Active for that long, so what happened? This was really the best that could be done?

I don't want to move on, because I liked the group that was at Cool Running, and I'm afraid of how many different directions they might go. There are/were some really knowledgeable people around, and this thread was one of the places to find them. I'm rather frustrated and don't even have training logs on this site, so I can't even image how upset some other people must be. I know you finally put a message on the front page, but I'm getting really tired of having to login everytime I come here, and then getting directed to some main page.

Honestly, I don't know what to suggest as far as keeping the users around. I'd start with having a few more Active people around posting, trying to answer some questions, and begging people to stay. That's assuming Active wants to keep everyone around.