If you were a Running-Log.com user before March 2008, please read the following for details on your log.

Status Update (2/29/08 10:57PM)

I've received many emails about the site, mostly supportive. I'm currently in the process of rebuilding and hope to have something up with basic functionality soon. I'll be posting updates on Twitter (account: runninglog), and you can see the recent updates on the right.

I've also got the email address "branton [at] running-log [dot] com" up and running again. Please feel free to send me any feedback or suggestions you may have.

--Branton

Status Update (2/27/08 11:17PM)

As many of you have no doubt noticed, Running-Log.com has been having technical difficulties over the past week. I hope that this message will be able to address many of the questions that have been sent my way.

For the past seven years, I've offered this site as a free service. It started as a project in college so that I could learn various technologies and evolved into something bigger than I had ever expected. Though I haven't been running as much recently, I was for a long time the site's biggest fan and user.

When I became aware of the service outage, I contacted my web hosting provider. After some troubleshooting, I was informed that the database containing everyone's logs had been corrupted and no backups were available to restore the data. I've tried to follow up to get more details but the company has stopped responding to my online support ticket and will not answer their support phone line.

What does this mean for you? Unfortunately, I don't have any good news. With a corrupted database and an unresponsive web host, there's nothing I can do to retrieve the data. All of our logs are gone.

I'm as upset as anyone about this reality for two reasons. First and foremost, there are many runners that have lost something very personal to them (myself included). Secondly, I was beginning the process of transitioning the site to another online training log so that everyone would have their logs in a system that was being actively developed. Instead of improving everyone's online logging experience, the opposite has happened.

I sincerely wish that there was something I could do to restore your logs, but unfortunately there isn't. Please accept my apologies. I want to thank you for using Running-Log.com over the past several years and wish you many happy miles in the future.

--Branton