2008 LetsRun.com Awards

Thread of the year: Elite Trainning Group

Coach of the Year: Marshall Burt

In just 24 hours, this guy has become a Letsrun phenomenon

Threads of the year:

- 1) Running the 800 on pure hate

- 2) Elite Training Group

- 3) I Run Everyday But, I Go For More Than 24 Hours Without Running

- Poster of the year: 800 dude

- Most resilient poster ever: TxRUNNERgirl

- Troll of the year: the430miler

- Runner of the year (distance, M): Bekele

- Runner of the year (sprint, M): Bolt

- Runner of the year (distance, F): Paula

- Runner of the year (sprint, F): Lolo Jones

- Runner of the year, American male: Webb / German

- Runner of the year, American female: Lolo / Hasay

ok... wrote:

[quote]abbsent wrote:

Post of the year for certain:

RE: Running the 800 on pure hate 11/17/2008 12:18PM - in reply to Purifier Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

The night before the race lying in bed visualize your race. Imagine the first 200m going out fast, but controlled. The next 200m is effortless, just flowing. The 3rd 200m is where it starts to hurt, but it is also where your larger cojones show through and you start to move through the pack. At 600m you should be in 2nd or 3rd. Going into the turn you explode onto your toes and pump your arms hard.quote]

I thought this was funny because it sounds like a masturbation reference.

Now that I think about it, I DOES sound like a reference to shaking hands with the one-eyed milkman. It wasn't intended.

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Get your final nominations in. I'll compile a list to vote on soon.

-Poster of the Year: Tim Culpepper

-Troll of the Year: The Concrete Guy

-Thread of the Year: I really liked the two threads where God and the Devil appeared answering any questions. I guess the mods received some divine inspiration or demonic possession and removed them.

-Male Runner of the Year (Pro): Usain Bolt

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro): Pamela Chelimo

-Male Runner of the Year (College): Galen Rupp

-Female Runner of the Year (College):

-Coach of the Year: Gags gets my sentimental vote

Two pages so far and no mention of Geb or Wanjiru. I know a lot of people don't like Geb's time-trial records, but still 2:03:59 is 2:03:59. Also Wanjiru at Beijing was off the charts.