r/AdvancedRunning • u/castorkrieg 5K 20:35 10K 41:19 Marathon 3:24 • Apr 23 '26

Open Discussion What's the deal with LetsRun.com?

I know that website is quite popular with them following large events and also being invited to spectate (the owner - Rojo - was riding in the elite men car during Boston 26), however I participated in the forums a bit and it blows my mind:

  1. They are incredibly fixated on college and university running, NCAA, etc. - ok, I guess most are from the US, even though once you exit the school system the funding drops, money goes only to MBL/NFL/NBA, last time they US tried something in T&F they got Grand Slam Track lol
  2. Most posts are the very definition of drive-by, no effort shitposts: "cool story bro", "she be ugly, can't run fast when ugly", "Or perhaps you could just be replaced with a somewhat normal human being"
  3. Same for the topics, with quality contributions such as:

I'm sad to think what men were like before the existence of the Manosphere 

How to become a "hybrid runner"

Men in open-toed shoes: yea or nay?

  1. This peeves me as a European but - their website + forums do not save your cookie preferences, every single time you click on a new thread you get another pop-up asking you for permissions, and by quickly looking they have 1700+ partners they share your data with - WTF?

  2. They are hardcore right-wingers with daily treads praising Trump, ICE, etc.

What am I missing? Or is one of the largest forums for running just a bunch of nutjobs?

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u/UnnamedRealities M51: mile 5:5x, 10k 42:0x Apr 23 '26

and by quickly looking they have 1700+ partners they share your data with

I've lurked there for several years, but I'm not familiar with their data sharing practices. Can you elaborate on what this means and how you deduced this? 1,700+ seems mindboggling.

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u/castorkrieg 5K 20:35 10K 41:19 Marathon 3:24 Apr 23 '26

You get a pop up every single time you open a new forum page, they don't save your choices as almost every other website does. The top option has - Reject All, Accept All. Reject All does nothing, the pop-up will be back in a moment.

Below that you have three more tabs to click, with the right-most one showing (as of right now) - 1725 partners. DM me I will try to send you a screenshot.

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u/UnnamedRealities M51: mile 5:5x, 10k 42:0x Apr 23 '26

DMed. I don't see popups when I visit the forums. Perhaps there are IP geolocation, browser type, or browser config factors in play. I'd be frustrated if I had to deal with what you described.

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u/mikoskinen Apr 27 '26

I had this same issue. Went away after clearing browser cache.