Everyone's favorite Ultra Runner - Dean Karnazes - is up for Time's 100 most influential people of 2006.

Thanks for the tip. Dean is a shoe-in. No one can do what he does!

Look at how big of an influence he has had on this board. Possible one of top five athletes in number of threads about him.

p.s. I beat him at Leadville last year. Let's talk about me.

hes sitting at #25??????? this is a disaster... we need letsrun to vote him off the list!!!! Rise up trackies!!!!!!

terrrible wrote:

hes sitting at #25??????? this is a disaster... we need letsrun to vote him off the list!!!! Rise up trackies!!!!!!

I agree. Maybe ttc should start a thread on why he admires Dean. This will surely force the masses at Letsrun to vote against him.

It would be even funnier to vote him up the list. Of course, subtlety is lost on most of you.

Note the title is "Most Influential". I can think of quite a number of people who have started running because they read his book. I don't recall any of my non-running friends starting to run after I suggested reading RWTB or Noakes Lore of Running. Ask Joe Blow to name a famous runner and 9/10 will say Dean Karnazes, the other will say Lance Armstrong..:)

Alan

Quick question - anyone know if the individual votes are added or averaged? If I give him the lowest score possible and cast no other votes, does that HELP him?

Runningart2004 wrote:

Note the title is "Most Influential". I can think of quite a number of people who have started running because they read his book. I don't recall any of my non-running friends starting to run after I suggested reading RWTB or Noakes Lore of Running. Ask Joe Blow to name a famous runner and 9/10 will say Dean Karnazes, the other will say Lance Armstrong..:)

Alan

Ask Joe Blow whose the King of Thailand and 9/10 will not know what thailand is, the other 1 will say bangkok . So why is BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ on the list

looks like it's determined by average score (hence Colbert #1 instead of Jimmy Miller) so just voting 1 on Karno should hurt him.

I, however, voted him a 10. This is great.

I like how they call him out on stopping halfway home.

I bet that pisses him off something awful.

I voted him a 100.

I hope all of you vote him extremely high.

I would love to see him win this thing over Colbert, that would be hilarious.

Come on...

It will give us something to talk about.

OK, my vote (and whichever other ones came in that brief span) knocked him from 27 to 31. But now he's up to 17...WTF is wrong with you, letsrun???

NONONONONONNO!!!!!!!!!!

Vote him UP, make him win!!!!

It will be great, we can talk about it for weeks.

Plus, they will probably do a story on him on every news channel, and then we can all talk about those too.

Please, if he is voted down, it is just over, and nothing funny happens.

He is already on the list, so even if he gets last he is going to feel special for simply being nominated.

Might as well have some fun with him and make him win.

The more the public hears about this guy the better. Sooner or later news folks are going to ask him about people who are beating him in races.

If you follow the news, the media is generally nice to "one hit wonders," but love to grill the people who appear time and time again.

I agree with Jabronic, I just voted Dean a 100

I voted for Dean too.

At least I've heard of him.

I think it would be funny if he won.

I just voted for people I had heard of. If I didn't know who they were I gave them a 1.

I hated a few of Jabronic's other posts today, but I will agree that he has a good idea here, 100 for Dean.

No it's not a good idea. We have plenty to talk about anyway. It's not like his winning (and I guarantee that he won't) would change anything. And no one would see him as a fraud - I think you vastly overestimate the running knowledge of the non-running community.

All his placing highly would mean is vindication for his adoring fans, which is what we definitely DON'T want.

sanjaya from american idol is rated higher/more influential than obama and osama.

In all seriousness how is Karnazes a head of Federer and Alex P. Keaton... He runs ultramarathons, big deal... lets see Geb. could be the WB (because I dont think they have a WR) by about 45 minute

I just singlehandedly moved dean into 13th

If i vote onve every 3 seconds then within one that is over 25000 votes a day. we will be beating colbert soon.