"And that's how I became a runner once again. In the course of a single night I had been transformed from a drunken yuppie fool into a reborn athlete. During a period of great emptiness in my life, I turned to running for strength. I heard the calling, and I went into the light. For weeks after my thirty mile jaunt I was nearly incapacitated from muscle spasms and inflammation..." from Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions Of An All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes, chapter 4, page 64
Running is a popular theme on hubski. thenewgreen had a podcast on running and wasoxygen recently posted a very impressive marathon report.
It's too long to read all of it, but I'm certain that your comment above is very relevant to that discussion on how to handle the periodic system-crashing influxes.New here on Hubski, and to get a reply or two feels like a welcome to the party. :)
Have you been tuning in to the discussion here on the influx of new users?
Yes, thanks for the shout-out running sucks featuring ultra-marathoner cliffelam and avid runner cW.