2008 LetsRun.com Awards

Thread of year goes to any and all the deleted threads concerning baby nationals. I laughed my ass off that entire week. Its the happiest I've been in years and brought me out of clinical depression. Those babies are something

-Poster of the Year -prefontaine in my bedroom

-Troll of the Year -Alan Webb

-Thread of the Year -sub150 800m training

-Male Runner of the Year (Pro)

Usain Bolt

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro) Paula

-Male Runner of the Year (College) -sam chelanga

-Female Runner of the Year (College)-brie felnagle

-Coach of the Year -Washington guy

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Male Runner of the Year (Pro)Bolt/Bekele

-US Male Runner of the Year Merritt

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro)Dibaba

-US Female Runner of the Year Shalane Flannagan

-Male Runner of the Year (College)Leonel Manzano/Galen Rupp (Walter Dix for sprinters)

-Female Runner of the Year (College)Jenny Barringer

-Coach of the Year Louie Quintana

Favorite Male Runner (Pro)Ritz/Solinsky

Favorite Female Runner (Pro)Shannon Rowbury

Favorite Male Runner (College)Bobby Curtis/Andrew Wheating

Favorite Female Runner (College)Brie Felnagle/Susan Kuijken

Future of US Distance Running Male - Chris Derrick/German Fernandez

Future of US Distance Running Female - Christine Babcock

Male Runner of the Year (Pro)Bolt

-US Male Runner of the Year Merritt

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro)Dibaba

-US Female Runner of the Year Felix

-Male Runner of the Year (College)Dix

-Female Runner of the Year (College)Barringer

-Coach of the Year Metcalf/Salazar

Favorite Male Runner (Pro)Teg/Lomong

Favorite Female Runner (Pro)Goucher

Favorite Male Runner (College)Bumbi/Russel Brown

Favorite Female Runner (College)Kosinski

Future of US Distance Running Male - Fernandez (Derrick and Puskedra close, however)

Future of US Distance Running Female - Babcock

Male runner of the year (pro) - Jelimo

-Troll of the Year: Wejo

-Thread of the Year: post-nuptial shutoff.

-Male Runner of the Year (Pro): Bolt, for the time being (marion jones).

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro): Kara Goucher, my personal favorite to watch in any race because of her fine...form.

-Male Runner of the Year (College): Peter Kosgei.

-Female Runner of the Year (College): this girl:

http://www.runnerspace.com/photos.php?do=view&photo_id=9354

-Coach of the Year: Washington women's coach. For simply bringing in the group of girls he has assembled out there.

Ok I remember this post from during the Olympics and really thought it was funny.

RE: Is Letsrun banned in Beijing?

By: Irishboy

Im a Letsrun dealer. I live in China where free speech is censored especially in areas of Tibet, human rights and distance running results and discussion. In my reasonably sized village(pop.1,000,000) I befriend everyone I see running and after a short while I invite them to my house for some green tea, accupuncture,noodles and a little synchronized diving.

When I am confident I have gained their friendship and trust I mention the topic of running and the lack of discussion between runners available in China. At this prompting my friend will, without fail, start complaining about his innermost yearning to converse about running, preferably anonymously. All of them describe their longing to know what Masters races are on in places they don't live, to complain about TV coverage of the Olympics and to tell the running world that Pitbulls are too dangerous,case closed!

By now I know they are ready for the fabled Letsrun, more addictive than heroin and crystal meth combined, but I let them continue, just to be sure.

They tell me that on their wife has stopped having sex with them and they wonder if this has happened to anyone else and that Michael Phelps is NOT the greatest Olympian ever, that all swimming events are the same and they are all easy aswell.Now I know, they are ready.

I bring them down to my basement where I have twenty computers all hooked up to the internet, on Letsrun.com of course. At each computer is a runner in running gear. I explain to my friend that these are all my friends and I let them use my computers, free of charge of course. When one man slumps down at a computer(sleep depravation from addiction) I tell my friend he is simply tired from his long run.I remove the sleeping Chinaman and I sit my friend down at the now vacant computer.

After about an hour I return to my new friend and gently suggest to him that isn't it time for his run. Yes of course it is he replies and he thanks me and leaves.

The next day he returns and asks to go on Letsrun. Of course I say, no problem. After one week he is completely addicted so I begin to charge a reasonable price. I reckon my little enterprise has made me one of the richest men in all of China. Jealous much?

-Poster of the Year: 800 dude

-Troll of the Year: wejo (Baby Nationals)

-Thread of the Year: ??? (way too many)

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

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro): Shalane Flanagan

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

-Female Runner of the Year (College): Sally Kipyego

-Coach of the Year: Alberto Salazar

-Most Likely to Succeed: German Fernandez

-Most Attractive (Male): Chris Solinsky

-Most Attractive (Female): Kara Goucher

-Class Clown: the430miler

-Best Moment: US at Olympic Trials

-Worst Moment: US at Olympic Games

Thread of the Year: I don't remember the name of the thread, and it didn't have many posts, and only one that was funny, but it made me laugh harder than all other posts combined. Some kid was asking for some inspiring words to give him confidence to for his race the following day--I think it was his first. It was sincere and unknowing. And then the next post was "go f*** yourself." I missed a class because I couldn't stop laughing .

Female Runner of the Year (Pro) - Kara Goucher

Male Runner of the Year (Pro) - Galen Rupp

thread of the year: Dear Adam Goucher or this one, which I really liked:

JOGGER hit by DEER hit by TRUCK

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2708685

Man of Year: WEJO

The whole baby nationals thing was brilliance. This web site had gotten so boring. U R GENIUS!!!!! Forget flotrack, letsrun is back

Male Runner of the Year (Pro)- Paul Tergat

-US Male Runner of the Year- Alan Webb

-Female Runner of the Year- Radcliff

-US Female Runner of the Year- hasay

-Male Runner of the Year college- myself

-Female Runner of the Year- kipyego

-Coach of the Year- johnny bravo

Favorite Male Runner- Paul Tergat

Favorite Female Runner- any greezy black girl

Favorite Male Runner college- myslef

Favorite Female Runner College-any greezy slymey black girl

Future of US Distance Running Male - webb now and forever.

Future of US Distance Running Female- some nasty african

troll of the year- i like to think all posters are serious, because i dont like it when people label as me as non-serious, therefore labeling anyone else would be hypocritical. if everyone would just respect that im not only a physical minority with my mile time, but im also a mental minority with my physiological perspective, then we would all get along. its all about accepting people that are foreign, although im a real american.

-Poster of the Year

* GobbleGobble (retread from 11/2007)

-Troll of the Year

* the430miler

-Thread of the Year

* Thanksgiving Day Races ("gobble gobble m-r")

-Male Runner of the Year (Pro)

* Dathan Ritzenhein

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro)

* Shalane Flanagan

-Male Runner of the Year (College)

* Galen Rupp

-Female Runner of the Year (College)

* Kendra Schaff

-Coach of the Year

* Alberto Salazar

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. While you are doing this you should focus all of your energy into HATING your opponents. You don't want to just ease past them and coast to the finish, you want to crush them on that turn and then give them absolutely no hope in the straightaway. Visualize a man raping your wife and then burning your house to the ground while forcing you to look on. Visualize every coworker who got that promotion when you didn't. Visualize you catching a competitor who spat in your face on the starting line. Imagine chasing after a guy who stole something from you and wanting to beat his face into a bloody, pulpy mess.

When you are on the starting lime tense the muscles in your neck and hold your breath till it hurts. Follow this by pounding you chest and slapping your thighs till your eyes water, or until the first sign of blood, whichever comes first. Remember, real men always bleed before they cry, so that's what we're going for here. Flex the muscles in your chest and back. Then start screaming. Not yelling, not shouting, screaming is what we're going for. Sort of like the Alan Webb scream after his Olympic Trials victory in '04, but much more. Clearly it worked for him. Maybe if he had done that before the race 4 years later he would have done better.

Some notes

-spikes. You have them for a reason, and it's not for extra traction! If you know someone is right behind you, try and get em by flicking your heels back more. You can get someone in front of you too. Even someone to the side of you is fair game.

-shoulders-bumping someone with your shoulder is a great tactic. You can either bump someone into the infield a la that Italian guy Longo in the 800m, or, more likely, you can keep them too the outside.

-fists. hard objects on the end of your arms-I think it's pretty obvious what you do with them-use them to strike your competitors, what else would you do with them?

-The 800m race is too long to rage for the entire time, so try and stick to just the last 150-200m.

-Contrary to popular believe, you dont need to train for the 800m. However, you do need to practice your raging.

There are 4 types of rage that are practiced-

Pure Rage Power

Pure Rage Capacity

Concealed Rage Power

Concealed Rage Capacity

Power is more important and is developed by specific instances in your life that have made you angry. Failing that test in 9th grade algebra probably qualified you for states, and your dad grounding you helped you win it. However, rage power will not be effective without rage capacity. This is influenced by continuous shit goin down around you. Try and live somewhere ghetto like Khadavis Robinson. That guy doesn't train, he just has nearly perfected his rage capacity.

Concealed rage is similar but more subtle then pure rage. Your girlfriend mentioning her previous boyfriend would help build this, as would your professor generally being a douchebag. There are instances where you would be pissed off but need to conceal it, similar to the first 600m of a race.

Also Sebastian Coe-he didn't run much distance, just rage sessions on the track with short recovery. He was also very good because his father peter always pissed him off, giving him a massive rage capacity.

Wilson Kipketer was probably the greatest rager of all. He perfected the concealed rage. This most potent rage of all is hidden from your competitors, and thus it impedes their raging ability. I think his concealed rage capacity was due to having three wives.

Peter Snell was a very good rageneer. Lydiard was a good coach not because of his 100 mile weeks (which were in fact false), but because he inspired such rage in his athletes. Such an inspiration. His sessions of 100power rage/100 concealed rage for 2 miles were highly effective. He also advocated hill rage bounding sessions, but thats another story.

Nick symmonds-the rage is there

Andrew Wheating-the rage power is there, but he needs more capacity. Moving to the hood could supply this

Christian Smith. out-raged KD in the last few meters at the OT. Very immpressive. He will rage to a 1:43 one of these days.

American Runner of the Year - Shalane Flanagan

(no other awardees qualify in 2008 since no other dist runner medalled in Beijing)

[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.

Male Runner of the Year (Pro)Bekele

-US Male Runner of the Year Lagat

-Female Runner of the Year (Pro)Dibaba (Olympic double gold in distance events)

-US Female Runner of the Year Shalane Flannagan

-Male Runner of the Year (College)Leonel Manzano

-Female Runner of the Year (College)Kipyego/Barringer

-Coach of the Year Vig/Quintana

Favorite Male Runner (Pro)Symmonds/Ritz

Favorite Female Runner (Pro)Alyson Felix

Favorite Male Runner (College)Sean Quigley

Favorite Female Runner (College)Nicole Blood

Future of US Distance Running Male - Grab bag with the class of 2008, but I like Derrick

Future of US Distance Running Female - Hasay/Babcock

Future of US Distance Running Female: Kendra Schaaf

Hey, anyone remember that topic of "who would win in an 800" which listed a bunch of the all time greatest 800 runner.. and a bear?

I remember one post narrating the whole scene was awesome....