Future of RunningCommentary

[El Gordo]

Thanks Sweder, that's a good positive start.

I quite like "Purple Foot" too, though there are a couple of wine businesses that have hit on the same idea. (If you're wondering why wine?, think of the traditional art of treading grapes with bare feet). It's not a big thing perhaps, except that purplefoot.com, .net, and .co.uk are all taken. Good name though.

(Purplefootrunningclub/Purplefootrunners/PurpleFootRC).com are all available.

Almeria Running Club is a bit obscure, I'd argue, even if Almeria could remain the spiritual home. A bit like Mecca for Moslems, perhaps it should be an at-least once-in-a-lifetime commitment, to do the Almeria Half, followed by some complex initiation ceremony at Molly Malone's and the Bullfighter's Bar, featuring Guinness and Rioja.

Man, I'm warming to my theme here....

I like the idea of the general site along with the forum. I guess part of my recent semi-crisis is that I feel a crushing sense of duty to change stuff, when I just don't have the appetite for it these days. If we had a reasonably static basic website, with added pictures and race reports, that could be a good start.

One quite big question I've wrestled with: what is it that we have in common? Or do we need to have anything in common, apart from a plodacious spirit? Most people here seem to write pretty well, for instance. And like beer.

Any other thoughts from elsewhere?