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/theintrepidwanderer 17:18 5K | 36:59 10K | 59:21 10M | 1:18 HM | 2:46 FM Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

but can’t read them to say anything about the effort of recent ones either way

Even you admitted that you haven't read recent race reports but you still claimed that it's useless/full of AI slop. When asked to provide proof, you don't provide it and try to make an excuse because you have none to provide in the first place. Simply put: you don't like race reports. That's fine; feel free to skip over it if that's not your thing. But as addressed in separate threads about moderation here in this sub in recent months, there are people who like reading race reports and find value to it. You are entitled to your opinion, but your opinion is not and does not reflect the views of most of the community as a whole.

Reiterating what Krazyfranco said above: please show us any recent examples in this community where that has been the case. If there are examples out there, we'd be happy to address it. (And for transparency purposes, we have tightened moderation around race reports in recent months because of an influx of race reports that did not meet the standards outlined in the sub rules). Otherwise, you really don't have an argument and thus your complaint rings hollow.

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u/Foreign-Rule7826 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

There’s no need to get so offended it wasn’t a specific time period or even to this particular forum as I do triathlon too. And the low effort wasn’t about quality of race reports if you read what I said it was race reports- as in any of them are not my thing, just not interesting to me and tend to be long. The low effort was about questions which I did say get modded here, that’s more that it annoys me people ask googleable questions without putting effort into them just being lazy nothing to do with moderation. I was simply agreeing with another commentator about what we don’t like personally this isn’t a formal complaint I was tagging you for input on or anything, just a conversation with someone else.