Bruce wasn't so bad. in Hot town, summery in the city - 2017

I’ve often been open about my lack of animosity towards the Brucester but something happened to another website I use a couple of days ago, that really took the biscuit (dunked in tea or covered with gravy).

I’ve been logging all my runs, for about five years, on a site called The Running Bug. Although I have the stats of most of those runs on endomondo, what I don’t have are the comments I wrote; the things that created my memories. Just reading, “3 miles. 31 minutes” etc doesn’t remind me of the run whereas, “saw a kid from my class who gave me the archetypal kids’ thumbs up ” really brings the run alive for me - I can remember where I was and can hear him yelling, “MRS ERMENTRUDE!!” from the other side of the road, I can see his childminder grinning at me.

I logged into the bug a couple of mornings ago and there was a message: the running bug is now closed, all data is being deleted. Thank you for your support.

At that point, I could still see my runs so I started screenshotting like a woman obsessed. I managed to get back to last May when the whole lot just disappeared. Gone.

Fortunately, as I’m writing my running memoirs, I had been copying all my running comments into paper, but I was only up to May 2017. And I had been running tech free for several months prior to that so I don’t have eight months of stats at all.

So yeah, Bruce may not have dealt with things well but at least he gave us some notice.