Feature Requests: Need better SEARCH options

Hi,

I love MapMyRun and it has really re-energized my fitness training. However unless I've not found them, the "SEARCH FOR RUNS" features could use a few improvements. Today it is moderately useful as one either gets 0 matches or is overwhelmed by too many matches with no further drill-down tools.

What I'd like to see:

More criteria for search

- ex distance range (all runs between 7 and 12 k)

- search on run / hike / bike... If I'm running, I don't care for a 120km cycle route (and vis versa)

- search on the tags that one applies to the route when creating it (Park, Flat, Hilly, etc...)

- *** SEARCH / RESULTS ON A MAP! ***This should be possible with GoogleMaps. Why not Map all the starting points of the runs ? That makes it much easier to find a run close to where I am / where I will be without knowing what location/name the route creator chose.

- Ability to sort and refine results. Sort ascending/descending on all criteria.[update - this is possible on the existing criteria by clicking on the "column head". Two little triangles for "up"/"down" would make it clearer though...] Show most popular. Show most recently entered into a training log.

- etc...

Anybody else thinks the search function could use an energy bar?

TartanFrog

Sorry if this comes across wrong, but here goes...

 This entire site needs to seriously consider making what they have work properly and be usable, instead of contiuously launching new 'cool' features.  It kills me how things run here.  For instance:

 - Somewhere along the way the Search the Map (I believe it was referred to as 'Find') disappeared.  If I'm in a large city, I now have no way to find a run nearby, because I don't have time to sort through 3000 results.  If this is still here and I'm just missing it, well it's because you moved it which also is wrong.

 - Everytime I come back to this site, there's a NEW MAPPING TOOL!!! (or some other new something-or-other.)  That sucks.  I don't need a new vs. old tool all the time.  Pick one and make the damn thing work and leave it alone.  Quit changing the UI.  You need people to become familiar with how your website works and understand how to use it, not re-learn things on each subsequent visit.

 - The export functions do not (or at least did not, I've since given up) work properly.  I specifically tried repeatedly using the export to Garmin, and would recieve 'Error in xml file' when trying to import it (for the record, I use SportTracks).  There are also fields that could be better populated in the GPX files, but whatever.

 - Everything here seems like a showcase for 'cool' things, not usability.  IMO, this site is exceptionally bloated with 'coolness' and very much lacking in 'function.'

I really, really, really want to like this website and use it as my 'go to' for fitness maps and the like, but every single time I come here it manages to severely piss me off because something changed, doesn't work, or is especially slow because of what appears to be extra crap that the devs though was 'cool.'

And why on earth are the forums configured like this?!?!  Why wouldn't they look like every other forum on the internet?  Is this 'cool' too?

Hope I didn't hijack someone's thread.