RUNDIRECT Ezine

TheRoadRunner

I just received my first copy of the new RUNDIRECT ezine. Had a quick glance and it looks decent enough. Lots of photos etc (including an awe inspiring of Woddle modelling his new Boards singlet ). I spotted a couple of very minor mistakes but it's a great first attempt and IMHO shows how lazy the Irish Runner magazine has become recently.

For those who haven't signed up you can do so here http://www.rundirectireland.com/

Stupid_Private

Going to have to get myself to a printer - used to hate trying to read massive pdf documents in college and this just gave me a flashback to them days!

Woddle

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

(including an awe inspiring of Woddle modelling his new Boards singlet ).

For those who haven't signed up you can do so here http://www.rundirectireland.com/

Well that didn't come back to bite me on the ass
The mag looks great, well done to the guys for giving readers an alternative to the IR

shels4ever

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

I just received my first copy of the new RUNDIRECT ezine. Had a quick glance and it looks decent enough. Lots of photos etc (including an awe inspiring of Woddle modelling his new Boards singlet ). I spotted a couple of very minor mistakes but it's a great first attempt and IMHO shows how lazy the Irish Runner magazine has become recently.

For those who haven't signed up you can do so here http://www.rundirectireland.com/

Looks good to me, will have to print it myself now.. Knew I should have run the Ballycotton 10k looking at the wining times i would have won

SUNGOD

got mine today...looks really well
good to see woddle contributing as both a photographer and a model
who said men cant multitask??:D

pgibbo

Looks like you are in demand Woddle! :cool:

I am unable to hit the website. It keeps timing out. Will try later from home.

jimbo007

yup can't access it myself either, times out for me too.. will try again later..

geld

I'm getting the following messgage:-


Bandwidth Limit Exceeded
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.

??????

shels4ever

Looks like more demand then they planned for, i'd expect it would be sorted soon.

thirtyfoot

All grand for me, I can access it no problems.

turgon

Jees that PAUL FALLON guy going on about how using music is cheating. I dont know if he could have made himself sound more like a knob than he did.

TheRoadRunner

turgon wrote: »

Jees that PAUL FALLON guy going on about how using music is cheating. I dont know if he could have made himself sound more like a knob than he did.

yeah laughed at that myself. I know some race organisers have an issue with music due to safety etc, but to call it cheating is a bit left of field.

thirtyfoot

turgon wrote: »

Jees that PAUL FALLON guy going on about how using music is cheating. I dont know if he could have made himself sound more like a knob than he did.

I don't know. I'd be in the anti-iPod brigade too, its just not right. I'd have to agree with him.

Overall, I think its a grand first issue and great to have more publications out there. But like the way when I read Irish Runner these days there is nothing there that I would be interested in reading or if I was I have already read it and the bit on track and field is straight from the AAI site (which is good as it widens its audience). But its market forces and if you look at sales of Runners World vs Athletics Weekly in the UK I'd imagine Runners World far outstrips it. Thats why we will never have an Athletics Weekly style mag here in Ireland, there just ain't the market. I think you probably have to go one way or the other (elite/club/national vs recreational/road runner) trying to mix is hard I'd imagine.

Looks like a sexier, flasher, livelier version of Irish Runner, but still Irish runner-esque all the same.

Good to have something to look forward to each month though:cool:

RoyMcC

Tingle wrote: »

But its market forces and if you look at sales of Runners World vs Athletics Weekly in the UK I'd imagine Runners World far outstrips it. Thats why we will never have an Athletics Weekly style mag here in Ireland, there just ain't the market.

Not by much really

AW - 15,000 weekly rising to 25,000 around big events
RW - 88,597 pm
IR - but I don't ever seem to come across it, unless I see Frank giving it away at a race :pac:

thirtyfoot

RoyMcC wrote: »

Not by much really

AW - 15,000 weekly rising to 25,000 around big events
RW - 88,597 pm

Wow, am surprised by that, maybe there is a market for an Athletics Weekly publication then! Thats interesting numbers.

W.B. Yeats

Just signed up
Thanks for the link

robinph

Think I'm going to save actually reading it for my next plane ride, but I did just have a quick glance though to see the RacePix365 section. Noticed Woddle managing to sneak into the "Intermediate Masters" section with his modeling portfolio though which made me laugh.

They should have used my "improved" version of that shot though.

Woddle

robinph wrote: »

Think I'm going to save actually reading it for my next plane ride, but I did just have a quick glance though to see the RacePix365 section. Noticed Woddle managing to sneak into the "Intermediate Masters" section with his modeling portfolio though which made me laugh.

They should have used my "improved" version of that shot though.

Its nice to see racepix365 get a mention and its great for you and I, sth to add to our cv

robinph

True, we're now "published" photographers and my CV will be needing all the help it can get.

trotter_inc

Website is really unrealiable, tried subscribing yesterday and it failed, same again this morning

BeepBeep67

http://www.rundirectireland.com/April202415issue.html not sure if this works directly or will force a subscription 1st?

trotter_inc

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

http://www.rundirectireland.com/April202415issue.html not sure if this works directly or will force a subscription 1st?

Weird, can't get to that web page either:

"The DNS server may be temporarily unavailable, or there could be a network problem."

No problems with my internet connection.

robinph

Possible that your ISP just doesnt know where their web page is yet as it is a new site, or something like that.

xebec

Had problems with the website this morning too... Tried it again about an hour later and was able to get the download without any problem...

emerald007

looks very impressive from my first glance, and my hat will be glad its another photograph

Marxman

Apologies for the website falling over, was actually my fault, didn't think we'd get that much traffic. Tingle, on the irish-runner-esq thing... gives us a few months and then let me know what you think again. And anything you'd like to see in there drop me a line at mark@rundirectireland.com

Happy running (with/without ipods

thirtyfoot

Marxman wrote: »

. Tingle, on the irish-runner-esq thing... gives us a few months and then let me know what you think again.

Good to hear. You could check out this http://hstfnews.wordpress.com/ as its by an Irish guy and is more Athletics Weekly than Runners World/Irish Runner and would tickle the fancy of many of the track and field people.

Suppose it a quiet time of the year for the 'Athletics Weekly' type content.