Hi -- MedinaUltraGal here... I have not been here for a while, the changeover to Active seemed cumbersome to me. It's not so bad though. Hope everyone is doing well!!

• Suzanne

Ok, two things:

1. No matter how many times it seems to be mentioned, I still have to log in every time to post. There's no other site where you can't just have it save your info on your local machine and keep logging in.

2. Bring back the coolrunning running log. It was the best one out there and probably over 50% of the former coolrunning community used it.

With those two, you may bring a lot of people back. Now it's way too cumbersome to log in and all of the other sites have better running logs. Also, what silly little censorship things you've got!

We haven't forgotten about this feature. I can't give you an exact date, but it will be available shortly. I am very eager to see this feature up and running also.


We can't bring back the log unfortunately. I know that isn't what you want to hear but it's the truth. We can work to continually update the one we have to make it more what the CR users want though. So please let me know your feedback on this if you would like.

Thank you!

Sara

Yeah, pretty much "what Jesse said!"

You took away my beloved running log - I would think the "powers that be" would realize how traumatic that was. I guess not. I was sufficiently irritated that I figured, "If I have to learn a whole new way of doing things . . . I'm gonna make a clean cut and do it elsewhere." So, I wound up ad Kickrunners along with everyone else.

I'm going to join the pig pile with the posters who are upset about the demise of the Cool Running site. I had three years of daily workouts logged on CR that are now (poof) gone. You can't convince me that the old format can't be revived and it would definitely bring me back. I try periodically to log my workouts on the Active site but it truly does pale in comparison to the CR format. I even signed up for the upgraded version but I won't renew it next month. CR was simple, quick and intuitive. I could actually save my routes and could look back and compare times on the same routes over a period of years. What a pleasure!!! Going on CR was an anticipated part of the morning...logging my workout and then spending some time browsing the forums. The Active site is like a big sterile commercial - there's absolutely no sense of community. I think I understand the economics of consolidation, wanting to bring CR under the Active umbrella, but you gave short thrift to the emotional upheaval you created ("you" being Active). For every person you hear from in this thread, I'll bet there are hundreds with similar views. Bring back the old CR and you can be a hero to the running refugees that you've disenfranchised.

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

I used to be "Mudrunner" on this site.

If you can go back through the archives of the old Coolrunning, you will probably see my name as one of the regular posters...especially in the beginning....I really tried to get the forum going...& eventually it did.

It's true...it used to be a great forum, but my taste was soured by a few things.

1- I have used the "Mudrunner" moniker since I initially signed on here in 2002....& again after a crash a couple of years later. Active came onboard & gave me some other name to go by (I have yet to see the "other" Mudrunner).

2- A very long line of interesting run reports were obliterated during the transition. While it's probably my own fault for trusting that they would be accessable forever, it was very disappointing to discover that some items that people put a lot of soul into (myself included), were gone. Many people used these various run reports to gain insight, info, or inspiration. As it is, most ultras give relatively little info & the runner's persepctives are invaluable.

3- Active. com has/had a nasty habit of pre-billing without authorization. I have very little tolerance for these type of business shenanigans...so I took my bid-ness elsewhere.

4-the only email solicitations that I would get from Active were for road races in the NE USA. I ama trail/ultra runner from Vancouver Canada....even though I sent repeated emails specifying my interests (& then later, repeated emails to remove me from their e-blast list...this has yet to happen).

5- I don't get the impression that Active is in this for the long-haul & will sell to the next highest bidder.

Sincerley,

Mudrunner