A social networking site for endurance athletes

liz@coloradocolfaxmarathon.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:51:00 GMT

Here's a social networking site for endurance runners that we think is pretty cool: Athlinks.

As Bob Findlay at the Rocky Mountain News describes it:

"I'm not much into social networking on the Internet - primarily, I confess, because I'm an old happily married man with little need for the offerings of Facebook, MySpace and the like. But I was intrigued when I recently ran across Athlinks, a networking site for endurance athletes.

I plugged my name into its search function and it immediately listed my race results for 33 events dating back to 1995. That's a highly useful feature. Oh, I've got my results recorded all right, but where? Athlinks just saved me hours, perhaps days, of searching through old Day-Timers, scraps of paper and old bibs, some with my races times written on them, some not..."

I did the same -- not only did it pull up some recent races, but I'm also able to claim races as far back as 1995 under my maiden name. Pretty cool!

Colfax Marathoners

A social networking site for endurance athletes