A/R Awards 2015 - Post of the Year

RacoonQueen

Voting will stay open until Friday December 18th

RacoonQueen

whoopsadaisydoodles - I'm fecked if
aero2k on The Rave Thread
Josh Harris - Beer Mile Tips
Tergat1 - Base Phase
Krusty - A real runner is
Hannibal Smiths Beer Mile and photos

Chivito550

Put it this way. If Haile or Michael Johnson popped into A/R to leave words of encouragement before DCM or the National Track and Field this place would go nuts (well maybe not for MJ, that would probably be just a few of us jumping around the place!). There really is only winner here. Josh Harris dropping in before the Irish Beer Mile Championships is the stuff of legend.

And on that note, best of luck to him as he competes in the Fukuoka Marathon in the next few hours. Word on the street is he is targeting the Olympic standard of 2:17. A true all round athlete.

menoscemo

Chivito550 wrote: »

Put it this way. If Haile or Michael Johnson popped into A/R to leave words of encouragement before DCM or the National Track and Field this place would go nuts (well maybe not for MJ, that would probably be just a few of us jumping around the place!). There really is only winner here. Josh Harris dropping in before the Irish Beer Mile Championships is the stuff of legend.

And on that note, best of luck to him as he competes in the Fukuoka Marathon in the next few hours. Word on the street is he is targeting the Olympic standard of 2:17. A true all round athlete.

+1 while I loved Aero's post; Josh Harris was my nomination and I'll be voting for him.

tang1

My vote goes to aero2k, unlike Josh Harris a few on here know him and some would say he hes a top bloke, my vote goes to him for his sheer honesty and love. He was going through a difficult time yet had the humilty to share that with thousands of people here.

Chivito550

tang1 wrote: »

My vote goes to aero2k, unlike Josh Harris a few on here know him and some would say he hes a top bloke, my vote goes to him for his sheer honesty and love. He was going through a difficult time yet had the humilty to share that with thousands of people here.

I know Josh Harris, as do a few others. Met aero once. Nice guy. Both great posts.

tang1

Chivito550 wrote: »

I know Josh Harris, as do a few others. Met aero once. Nice guy. Both great posts.

What do you want, an award for knowing him?? You always seem to find reason to find argument with posts that disagree with yours?? Fair play to you for knowing him, aero2k gets my vote regardless. Did i belittle your nomination?

Chivito550

tang1 wrote: »

What do you want, an award for knowing him?? You always seem to find reason to find argument with posts that disagree with yours?? Fair play to you for knowing him, aero2k gets my vote regardless. Did i belittle your nomination?

Calm down. It's pointless stating that you know somebody in the first place, so I made a similarly pointless post. The award is about the post, that's all. As I said, both great posts. Both worthy potential winners.

tang1

Chivito550 wrote: »

Calm down. It's pointless stating that you know somebody in the first place, so I made a similarly pointless post. The award is about the post, that's all. As I said, both great posts. Both worthy potential winners.

MEH!!!

Firedance

Aero gets my vote too, I understand the significance of the josh Harris post, but it didn't affect me in any way, its a great post yes but aeros is streets ahead for poetry, humanity, humility and honesty.

Hannibal Smith

:eek: what fecker did that!!! . :pac:

IvoryTower

Krusty for me

annapr

I didn't hesitate for a second on this one, even though the others were all great... Aero's post left many of us with tears streaming down our faces too, it was a beautifully written tribute to his little ma and to the Phoenix Park too.

*reaches for hankies

Itziger

Has to be Aero. Don't know the lad from Adam, but loved the way he started that post as if it were about running and then it turns into something so much more.

And then it ends on running again. All in a few lines.

Chivito550

Just for those interested, given he's nominated above, Josh Harris ran 2:20:09 at the weekend in Fukuoka. Seems like a lot of things went wrong, particularly seeding. They rated his 1:05 half below 2:39 marathons, so he had to start around 860th so had to pass most of the field. Finished 19th overall. Seems to be targeting Rotterdam where he will be entered as an elite, and looking for a Rio qualifier, though in terms of competing, London World Champs 2017 is a more likely scenario. Race report here:

http://www.joshharrisrunning.com/#!Fukuoka-International-Marathon/cyie5/5667179a0cf2a72d69b87961

tang1

Chivito550 wrote: »

Just for those interested, given he's nominated above, Josh Harris ran 2:20:09 at the weekend in Fukuoka. Seems like a lot of things went wrong, particularly seeding. They rated his 1:05 half below 2:39 marathons, so he had to start around 860th so had to pass most of the field. Finished 19th overall. Seems to be targeting Rotterdam where he will be entered as an elite, and looking for a Rio qualifier, though in terms of competing, London World Champs 2017 is a more likely scenario. Race report here:

http://www.joshharrisrunning.com/#!Fukuoka-International-Marathon/cyie5/5667179a0cf2a72d69b87961

Is canvassing for your nomination allowed?

menoscemo

tang1 wrote: »

Is canvassing for your nomination allowed?

Isn't that the purpose of the thread?

KielyUnusual

Chivito550 wrote: »

Just for those interested, given he's nominated above, Josh Harris ran 2:20:09 at the weekend in Fukuoka. Seems like a lot of things went wrong, particularly seeding. They rated his 1:05 half below 2:39 marathons, so he had to start around 860th so had to pass most of the field. Finished 19th overall. Seems to be targeting Rotterdam where he will be entered as an elite, and looking for a Rio qualifier, though in terms of competing, London World Champs 2017 is a more likely scenario. Race report here:

http://www.joshharrisrunning.com/#!Fukuoka-International-Marathon/cyie5/5667179a0cf2a72d69b87961

Nice report. Its ludicrous that they rated the 65 half lower than a 2.40 marathon. Personally I would rate a 75 half better than a 2.40 marathon and I'm guessing most calculators would agree. Think there was a good point from him there in the disadvantage of training on a loop that has a different profile to the course and the adaptations you miss out on.

Hopefully he puts it all to right in Rotterdam.

Krusty_Clown

KielyUnusual wrote: »

Nice report. Its ludicrous that they rated the 65 half lower than a 2.40 marathon. Personally I would rate a 75 half better than a 2.40 marathon and I'm guessing most calculators would agree. Think there was a good point from him there in the disadvantage of training on a loop that has a different profile to the course and the adaptations you miss out on.

Hopefully he puts it all to right in Rotterdam.

Absolutely - sure some of the Irish lads were running 65 minute half marathons, before heading to Berlin and running 2:15:xx. But it also seems silly that he would allow himself to get into that situation, as it's all on the front registration page on the Fukuoka website. He'd have been better off in any number of marathons that would have provided him with an elite entry for his 65 minute half. Hell, if he'd run one of his tempo runs under 2:27, he could have used that as a qualifier for the A group in Fukuoka. But it sounds like he learnt from it and we'll see even greater things from him in his next race. Would love to see him do well in Rotterdam. It's great to read blog posts and race reports from an athlete who is so willing to share.

Chivito550

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Absolutely - sure some of the Irish lads were running 65 minute half marathons, before heading to Berlin and running 2:15:xx. But it also seems silly that he would allow himself to get into that situation, as it's all on the front registration page on the Fukuoka website. He'd have been better off in any number of marathons that would have provided him with an elite entry for his 65 minute half. Hell, if he'd run one of his tempo runs under 2:27, he could have used that as a qualifier for the A group in Fukuoka. But it sounds like he learnt from it and we'll see even greater things from him in his next race. Would love to see him do well in Rotterdam. It's great to read blog posts and race reports from an athlete who is so willing to share.

Yeh good points. I assume the 2:27 pacing run was too late for seeding purposes though. I'd imagine entries would have been in a long time before that. Not sure why he picked Fukuoka. I'd imagine a combination of cost, timing, and quality of field. Given he was running the World Uni Games and Beer Mile World Classic, the European Autumn marathons wouldn't have fit in. And Japan is pretty cheap to get to from Australia because of Jetstar putting on cheap flights (unless things have changed since I left), and it's in a similar time zone, while getting to Europe is a real drag.

Krusty_Clown

Chivito550 wrote: »

Yeh good points. I assume the 2:27 pacing run was too late for seeding purposes though. I'd imagine entries would have been in a long time before that. Not sure why he picked Fukuoka. I'd imagine a combination of cost, timing, and quality of field. Given he was running the World Uni Games and Beer Mile World Classic, the European Autumn marathons wouldn't have fit in. And Japan is pretty cheap to get to from Australia because of Jetstar putting on cheap flights (unless things have changed since I left), and it's in a similar time zone, while getting to Europe is a real drag.

It's the Olympics. Nothing else matters by comparison. Not even the beer mile (*gasp* oh no you din't just say that).

Anyway, we seem to have veered pretty far off course. Getting Josh to post here was pretty magic and would love to see him post here again (maybe as an Olympian! ) but I'd have to go for Aero2k or one of Tergat's posts, because a year is an awful long time so post of the year in my view should be something either useful or extremely memorable (in this case Aero2k's post).

davedanon

How does one view the actual posts that were nominated?

Ososlo

Click on the links provided in the second post perhaps. Might just work.

davedanon

Click upthread?

Nice, thanks.

Dubgal72

Sheesh, another brain cruncher....my heart goes with Krusty's 'real runners', that has had a major influence on me. Then again aero's post was pure poetry and so moving. But my vote on this one goes with whoopsa, purely for selfish reasons. This post encapsulated all I was trying to say at that time on the Novice's thread. We referred to it again and again and I am convinced it made many novices' experience that much better. So 'next year's mentor', bookmark this cos it will stand the test of time, year after year.