I am trying to be active on this forum but I have been thinking about leaving for another site. It would be interesting to know where all the coolrunning folks are leaving to. I am currently evaluating runningahead.com and runnersworld.com. They both use the same log software except runningahead is maintained by the person who wrote the software and it is better supported and newer. Runnersworld.com has a huge forum community. Kickrunner.com is another site people are leaving for but they are down for a week while they upgrade there server hardware. They are being overrun by coolrunning people.

If you're looking for a new place, I recommend runningahead for your log. They will import your CR log info, but they too are getting overrun with CR deserters, so it may take a little bit of time.

Meanwhile, Kickrunners is a fantastic place for forums. A very large (and very chatty) group of us (30-somethings) jumped over there a while ago (a year, maybe??). At first, we sort of felt weird about leaving CR behind, but now we all just love it. I maintained my running log on here for a long time, but now that I have found runningahead, I won't need to do that either. With the unpleasant changes happening here, I don't think they deserve the traffic. I will even try to find a different source for finding local races. Not a fan of Active at all.

Any chance you admin folks are reading any of these?????

Don't worry about bookmarking the page with the free C25K program... it will remain 100% free for all users that want to print a copy. We are not planning to change any of the free training programs available on Cool Running. What we are charging for on the digital version of C25K is just that... it's digital and may be uploaded in your Active Trainer account. This allows users to log their actual workouts against the C25K plan to track their progress.

Hope that clears up this misunderstanding before rumors run rampant