🚀 go-pugleaf

While I was in Columbia SC, a few months ago, I was looking for a race or
2 to get into, but no one I could find knew where to go to find one,
until I wandered into one sporting store, and asked the salesperson.

They suggested that I call the "Running Hotline", which we found listed
in the local phone book (white pages).

It was an answering machine, recorded by the owner of a local running store
who wanted to inform people where and when races were held within about
a 2 hour drive of Columbia.

I thought that that was a great idea, and am going to check into getting
a listing here under the same name, as the store owner agreed that using
his listing name of "Running Hotline" would be a great idea, so that
runners who are visiting any town could look up that name to find the info
line for local races.  (you know the whole standardization thing)

Anyway, I just thought that I would let all of you know about it, and
hopefully more will start, and perhaps we could even include a list of
cities with the "Running Hotline" in the FAQ for rec.running.

I am hoping that a running club, or store, or even the phone company will
sponsor the hotline for the local area, as all it really needs is a
voice mail box.

If you think that you might want to do something like that in your local
area, or are willing to check into a running store or club setting this
up, then maybe you could post a message here, so that someone else in the
same area doesn't do the same thing.

It would also be a good way for running clubs to announce their meetings
and who guest speakers will be.

Good luck, and good running.
-- 
Tim.Nelson@Canada.NCR.CA
NCR Canada +1 416 819 4112