All the social possibilities for runners to meet, relate stories and tips and socialize are really booming these days.

I've met a ton of runners on Twitter--I'm http://twitter.com/HellaSound

Brian Morrissey has set up a "room" on FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/going-long)

Melanie McBride has set up twitter.com/RunnersHigh

If you're a Nike+ user there's the fantastic www.NikePlus.com, which is visually amazing and has plenty of social challenges and functionality

...on and on. It's fantastic.

I've also set up a nice little bot on my site that allows folks to directly post their running what-have-you via Twitter in real-time: http://www.hellasound.com/GoRun.

What a great time to be a runner!