Most significant person ever to post on letsrun?

Fat Joe wrote:

Significant running related folks who are brave enough to have posted under their real names or have a handle that most people know include:

Renato Canova

Jack Daniels

Craig Virgin

Marius Bakken

Jim Spivey

George Malley

Pete Magill

Ed Whitlock

Henry Rono

Wejo

I'm sure there are many others. As far as people who are famous for things other than running, Malcolm Gladwell and George Gilder are the only ones I can think of. There are likely others. Al Gore probably posts in all the global warming threads.

Off the top of my head, other elites I have seen post under their own name or a name that everyone else knows include:

David Torrence

AJ Acosta

Phoebe Wright

Christian Hesch

Sage Canaday

I'm missing some I know, just additions I thought of real quick.

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan

Forgot Josh McDougal as well.

Soprano wrote:

Off the top of my head, other elites I have seen post under their own name or a name that everyone else knows include:

David Torrence

AJ Acosta

Phoebe Wright

Christian Hesch

Sage Canaday

I'm missing some I know, just additions I thought of real quick.

born to be a bum (Adrian Royal)

britboy (Tom Mayo)

burley (Sam Burley)

Cabada (Fernando Cabada)

chgray (Charlie Gray)

Chorney (Tom Chorney)

CjF2753 (Chris Fox)

coldneck (Reid Coolsaet)

Consiglio (doug Consiglio)

Derderian (Tom Derderian)

dick (Dick Boulet)

dils (Dan Wilson)

emack (Eric Mack)

Fry (Scott Fry)

GerrytheJogger (Gerry Lindgren)

good show gents (Clay Schwabe)

Grote (Ryan Grote)

Henry Rono (Henry Rono)

Hilly (Daniel Hill)

Hinderloppet (Dan Nelson)

Hodgie-san (Bob Hodge)

jackass (James Thie)

jones'y (Steve Jones)

jtupper (Jack Daniels)

Kaburu (Ikem Billy)

KnutK (Knut Kvalheim)

lemoo (Joe LeMay)

LouieQ (Louie Quintana)

malmo (George Malley)

Marius (Marius Bakken)

MAYEROFF (Jason Mayeroff)

McM (Matt McGuirk)

me and my watch (Max Harn)

Meyer (Greg Meyer)

Mstahr (Mike Stahr)

no caps (Mogens Gulberg)

Nobby (Nobby Hashizume)

nz1 (Robbie Johnston)

One percent (Luke Watson)

Orvill Atkins (Orville Atkins)

Pattys hubby (Dan Dillon)

ramsxc (Dave Frank)

renato (Renato Canova)

rojo (Robert Johnson)

Runningart2004 (AlanTobin)

Ruth Wysocki (Ruth Wysocki)

Santiago (Mike Roche)

Scharsu (Alan Scharsu)

Sell (Brian Sell)

sjm1368 (Steve Magness)

Spiney Norman (Don Norman)

Suarez (Carlos Suarez)

Tabb (Ron Tabb)

TFFlyer (Tom Fleming)

the doc (Marc Davis)

Torpey Fan (Mark Coogan)

Trent (Trent Briney)

V (Mark Sivieri)

You are significant. Be the one to help someone, And let some one help you.Perception is our greatest challenge.

webfoot wrote:

It wouldn't surprise me if Phil Knight, Vin Lananna, and Mo Farah have posted here. George Bush and Sarah Palin were runners so maybe they posted here (and explains all the conservative political threads). Stephen Hawking used to post on the weekly "is the foot pulled back by the treadmill belt" threads, but he finally threw up his hands (if he could) in sadness at the failure of the American education system.

I'd like to see Letsrun work with our top runners to have QA sessions on the message board. Seriously.

Canova...hands down...we are lucky he is willing to post here and answers a lot of questions directly.

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oldold runner wrote:

kite fliar wrote:

Henry was significant as a runner, but that is one small area of significance. He is not particularly significant in the scheme of things, although that can be said for every human, to some extent.

Well then, any person of significance will not post on this or any running web site. In the real world no one gives a shit about track and field or cross country. So Hank is number 1..................

Who counts as a, "person of significance"?? Apparently, you are not a particularly smart person. I'm going to call you on the "real world" claim. Please tell me why track and field or CC is not part of the real world??? Are you part of the real world?

(stuck in japan) Brian Sheriff http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1227287&page=0

Dick Beardsly

Anton Krupicka

Sage Canaday

Johnny Appleseed wrote:

You are significant.

Be the one to help someone,

And let some one help you.

Perception is our greatest challenge.

+1

Confucius: We are not disturbed by things that happen, but rather, by our perception of things that happen.

BR ruled the roads wrote:

Nose it Awl wrote:

Malcolm Gladwell is much better known to regular people .

Malcolm Gladwell is very insignificant to me. I never heard of him until a few months ago when he posted on here.

I also don't see anywhere the OP says anything about "regular" people.

Yours is the response of an ignorant 10 year-old: if it's not significant to you, it is by your definition not significant to the world.

Any thinking can see Gladwell's significance, and it is plainly greater than any running coach. Even Salazar's greatest moment of genuine fame was being WRITTEN ABOUT in the New Yorker.

BR ruled the roads wrote:

Malcolm Gladwell is very insignificant to me. I never heard of him until a few months ago when he posted on here.

I also don't see anywhere the OP says anything about "regular" people.

He also didn't say anything about significance to morons living under rocks.

Actor Brian Patrick Clarke, and husband of Olympic Gymnast Kathy Johnson, has posted here.

Not the most famous guy in the world, but he had some interesting posts on people who falsely claim to be Olympians. Also a sub 3:00 marathoner.

Steve Hoag (old school steve)

Depends on what you mean by "significant".

I see Ed Whitlock's posts quite a lot, and he's always gracious and informative. I think he has the most-positive impact on these forums. That, combined with the fact that what he's doing is probably once-in-a-century stuff, gives him my vote.

Robert Heffernan - World 50k RW Champion

Peter Snell posted on here 1 day only, responding to Nobby Hashizume.

your mom when she posted in bed last night