Congratulations to THOUGHTSLEADER the 2024 LetsRun.com Poster of the Year!

I look on that accolade as a victory. I never want to be approved of here.

Giving out awards for who has published the most slop is not something I was anticipating, yet not a single fiber in my body is surprised

This forum has gone to absolute sht and y'all just encouraged it to get an order of magnitude worse

Damn, THOUGHTSLEADER slaughtered everyone. He is aptly named.

Probably. Still, I bet armstronglivs beat rekrunner there too. Coevett third. Khamis is fun and doesn't post that much, so he'll be far behind in downvotes.

Not only that, you see when they became a member:
Bananas: Member since 01/06/2025. So, no votes in 2024.

#spy

You post as much, if not more, than anyone on the list, yet you're not there.

Maybe you should take that to heart and try to better yourself

This board is a haven for doping apologists. They couldn't follow the sport if they weren't. Naive adulation of their heroes goes with it. Reality is typically a stranger to this place.

Here is an example of one of Thoughtsleaders posts:

''I think what has to be said about Katir is the goalposts moved. Everyone at the time said: “wait until his rocket fuel in 2021 (pre-AIU RTP etc.) wears off.” Well, the truth is the guy is now the same guy he was in 2021, and possibly better. So this is no longer rocket fuel, it would have to be the garden variety doping everyone is accused of. Which again is fine, the guy did improve a lot. There are better rationalizations for his improvement than Ramzi ever had. He DID come from a situation with low resources, and then was able to upgrade as far as coaching (in vogue threshold training), facilities (training same high altitude place as Jakob) and so on. This was not a guy who was given a huge amount of support until 2020-21. I personally don’t know if he’s doping or not, but he has outlasted what many thought would occur with him when he burst onto the scene.''

athleticsweekly.com

Mohamed Katir banned for four years for tampering - AW

Tim Adams

The world 5000m silver medallist is already serving a two-year ban until 2026, for three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period

Open link

Nice work on figuring this out, and congrats to timhoughtsleader. I would have thought CopperRunner would have made top-10. Underrated training guru.

Well deserved. THOUGHTSLEADER is my favourite poster on these boards. We've disagreed on stuff, but I've always felt like our exchanges were informative, in good faith, and respectful. If he posts something, it's always worth reading. A shout-out as well for NErunner. They probably don't draw as much attention as they deserve, but for training posts, no one on these boards offers as much consistently good advice. If I ever pony up for a supporters club subscription, THOUGHTSLEADER and NErunner would be the first two people I'd follow.

Despite rojo's best efforts at constant rage-baiting, he can still can't make the top 10. Sad!

And…he was busted for garden variety test evasion after 3 successful seasons at the top, which defied the idea that he was rocket fuel doping. The tampering indicates it was a scheme (facilitating microdosing, and avoiding “glowing” moments). Sure you’d want to share all the posts by you and others who wrote he’d never do anything relevant ever again after the spring of 2021? If you can find me apologizing ever for Katir after we learned of his missed tests I’d be pretty surprised.

Eff both him AND you. That dude is leading no one’s thoughts.

I've never seen a post from Kobbs Hessler with more upvotes than downvotes. FACT.

What...? No Precious HemRoyed?

Actually, the opposite is true. The whole idea behind microdosing is that you never glow. Therefore a microdoser has no need to hide, ever.

Having said, I normally appreciate your posts, Thoughtsleader.