Progress became evident as fear gave way to frustration. Not only was I able to write this column on my new toy, but I was exploring some unexpected territory. Which brings us to the point. There exists on the Internet a Newsgroup named rec.running. This is an area where a great deal of information on running is passed back and forth.
Runners access the system for any number of reasons.
At the time of this writing there have been in excess of 2,600 total messages transmitted in this category. Runners throw out questions on race schedules, injuries, training, recent accomplishments in the sport, shoes, clothing and the like. Runners responding to these subjects are nearly always sincere and helpful. For example, a runner with a nagging knee problem wrote in asking for strengthening exercises, as the ones given her by her physician seemed to aggravate the problem. One runner responded that isometric exercises were effective in a similar case he suffered a few years ago.