Events of the Year
We thought about making more than 6 awards for the events but realized when we got to about 5 that NXN would have a good shot to win all of them. Nike Cross Nationals was a huge success this year, both on their end and on ours. At this writing there are 133,932 views just on the event's front page alone. To put that in perspective, the event happened on December 6th ... just 20 days ago. And you know it had to be big to beat out the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, an event that only happens once every 4 years! Congrats to the entire NXN team, a job well done.

Event of the Year	Runners Up
Nike Cross Nationals Official Site	U.S. Olympic Trials Oregon Relays Butte to Butte

Best Event Content	Runners Up
Nike Cross Nationals Official Site	2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Oregon Relays NXN Regionals - NW HL SW S MW SE NE NY

Best Event Site Design	Runners Up
Nike Cross Nationals Official Site	Pre Classic Midwest Distance Gala NXN Regionals - NW HL SW S MW SE NE NY

Best Event Coverage	Runners Up
2008 U.S. Olympic Trials	2008 U.S. Olympic Trials Oregon Relays Payton Jordan - Cardinal Invite

Best Event Logo	Runners Up
Nike Mile	Eugene Marathon Butte to Butte Midwest Distance Gala

Most Popular Event	Runners Up
Nike Cross Nationals Official Site	Butte to Butte Oregon Relays Payton Jordan - Cardinal Invite

RunnerSpacers of the Year
RunnerSpace wouldn't be what it is without its members. We want to thank each and every one of you for every piece of content you have uploaded or put on the site. This site is a testament to what can be done when the community comes together and helps propel the exposure of our great sport(s). The members below who received awards have done amazing things for the site from uploading amazing content to showing our own staff the capabilities of what you can do with profile designs. We look for more great things to come from you and look forward to meeting new RunnerSpacers every day.

RunnerSpacer of the Year	Runners Up
ross	cnick, travis, Scherer

Best Profile Photo	Runners Up
RunnerPhoto	Dan Draws, Hailey, KGrady

Most Active Member	Runners Up
cnick	ross, empb28, Pimp My Page

Coolest Profile Header	Runners Up
Pimp My Page	HurdleMaster, travis, patrick

Coolest Profile Design	Runners Up
Scherer	HurdleMaster, Pimp My Page, G Land XC

Videos of the Year
So many great videos, so little time! Over 8,000 videos in a year! That's just crazy. But we guess after another year 8,000 won't seem like much, huh? Be sure to check out the video of the year. It was a hands down, no contest winner and is probably the best video we've ever seen about the sport of track and field. (And yes we may be biased but we think anyone remotely in their right mind would agree). A side note to that video: It was produced on that day, day 10 of the Olympic Trials. It didn't take a week to produce a great video...it was done that night!

Video of the Year	Runners Up
RunnerSpace Live - Day 10	Bret Schoolmeester - All American Bad Ass Barack Obama Hurdles at Hayward Oregon UCLA Highlight Video

Most Viewed Race Video	Runners Up
Wheating 3:38 1500 - Oregon Twilight 2008	Boys Gala Mile 4:01.09 Rob Finnerty - Midwest Distance Gala Men's Mile Full Race - Won in 3:56 - UW Invite 2008 Acosta Runs First Sub-Four! - UW Last Chance 2008

Most Viewed Non-Race Video	Runners Up
Barack Obama Hurdles at Hayward	John Belushi's Little Chocolate Donuts - SNL Nike Cross Nationals Promo 08 - NXN Video Contest XC Commercial NTN Heartland Division ( Video Contest)

Funniest Video	Runners Up
Joe Piscopo w/ Eddie Murphy as Carl Lewis on Saturday Night Live	Pre's Rock Adventure - RSL John Belushi's Little Chocolate Donuts - SNL 200 Meter Screamer

Oddest Video	Runners Up
Flamming Hammer	Car(s) on Fire at HS State Meet 2007 Egg Nog 400's 200 Meter Screamer

Best Video for Production	Runners Up
RunnerSpace Live - Day 10	Suwanee XC Club (GA) (Collins Hill) Behind the Gold Corvallis Oregon Training Locations with OSU Women's XC

Best Interview Video	Runners Up
Dyestat.com Past, Present & Future - John Dye	Joe Douglas Interview - Pre Classic 2007 Gunther Weidlinger - Cardinal Invite 2008 Lisa Koll - American Collegiate Record 10k

Best Athlete Feature Video	Runners Up
Dawn Harper Feature Update from UCLA	Inside WIll Leer Britney Henry Feature Mark Wieczorek Feature

Best Video Event Coverage	Runners Up
2008 US Olympic Trials	Nike Cross Nationals Official Site Payton Jordan - Cardinal Invite Oregon Relays (XO Invite & OR Invite)

Blogs of the Year
We initially thought that after looking through over 25,000 photos that there wouldn't be anything close to taking as long to decide on awards. We were proven wrong when we had to actually read (and sometimes skim over) 1,000+ blogs to find the year-end winners. There were some really good ones out there that we wish could have made the list. Thanks to all of you who have shared your opinions and experiences. We are looking forward to reading more blogs from all of you throughout the coming year.

Blog of the Year	Runners Up
The Steve Slattery Progression	Climbing on the Side Skorts in Spring to Summer Scary Run-Ins With Fear

Blogger of the Year	Runners Up
cnick

Most Active Blogger	Runners Up
cnick

Funniest Blog	Runners Up
The Worst I Ever Got Beat: Top Defeats in Running	foot in mouth It could be worse... The top 5 things I have learned from being a runners girlfriend

Weirdest Blog	Runners Up
A TV Dinner Holiday	Enter Fabian Fabian Returns! Don't worry, have sex

Most Popular Blog	Runners Up
Burger 'n' Brew	Joe Henderson's Marathon Group Coverage: The man who makes it all possible. Save your teeth, Don't drink Gatorade The Steve Slattery Progression

Photos of the Year
Wow! There were a ton of photos to look through to find the ones worthy for awards. There have been over 28,000 photos uploaded to our site and it was not easy to pick 4 in each category. The two big themes that stood out in the photos were high school cross country and the Olympic Trials, which combined for 11 of the awards (including runners up). But as you can see there were 3 photos that drew an awful lot of attention. Falling into the water pit always makes for a great picture but this series of 3 photos definitely takes the cake!

Photo of the Year	Runners Up

Best Photo by RunnerSpace	Runners Up

Best Photo by a User	Runners Up

Most Viewed Photo by RunnerSpace	Runners Up

Most Viewed Photo by a User	Runners Up

Funniest Photo	Runners Up

Weirdest Photo	Runners Up

Best Photo Coverage for an Event	Runners Up
Nike Cross Nationals	US Olympic Trials IAAF World Indoor Championships Oregon Relays

News Articles of the Year
There was alot of reading and some tough decisions for the news awards. There were so many deserving articles that we wish we could have highlighted but we had to stick to 4. What we did find for sure was that when the title or image infer or show any sort of nudity there seem to be a much greater number of views. Hmmm... But at the end Lopez Lomong being selected to carry the U.S. flag outweighed the field.

Article of the Year	Runners Up
Former 'Lost Boy' Lomong chosen to carry U.S. flag	Track & field rises with internet coverage Will we ever be able to just enjoy track again? All Americans Who Are Worthy Of Inheriting Pre’s Legacy

Best Article Image	Runners Up
Wheating Blog - Meeting World Wonders	iTunes features Kara Goucher with her "Endurance Boost" workout mix Oregon Men Win Pac-10s Track and Field on TV in 2008

Oddest Article	Runners Up
Marion Jones Vows to Shave Five Seconds Off Prison Term	Santa Speedo Run 2007 Photos... Women Run High Heeled Race in Russia Nell topless for cancer (Adult Content)

Most Viewed Article	Runners Up
Distance Running News Summary	NXN Boys Championship Results 2008 NXN Girls Championship Results 2008 Runners World interview with Delilah DiCrescenzo

Most Commented Article	Runners Up
Win $1200 a year in the RS Arcade!!	Video Interview with NTN Founders Josh Rowe and John Truax Eugene set to host 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Most Annoying Runner Ever

Arcade Gamers of the Year
The arcade was completely and utterly dominated by Fast RunnerZ (now Scherer) the entire year. He won the overall title every month and a total of $1450! It wasn't easy though, Shane, DGS, Bobisfuninsun, and several more looked like they would have a chance to knock him off but it never happened. How long can Fast RunnerZ keep up the streak? By the way, the helicopter game was played on average 45 times a day for the entire year! That's over 15,000 times!

Gamer of the Year	Runners Up
- Fast RunnerZ/Scherer	Dusty, Shane, Bobisfuninsun

Most Persistent Gamer	Runners Up
- GaelicStorm	Keith, Ian Terpin, Fast RunnerZ/Scherer

Most Hopeless Gamer	Runners Up
- Keith	Empb28, Kevin, XC Stallion

Most Consistent Gamer	Runners Up
- Shane	Ian Terpin, Keith, Fast RunnerZ/Scherer

Most Improved Gamer	Runners Up
- DGS	Keith, Shane, ian Terpin

Game of the Year	Runners Up
- Helicopter	Seal Bounce, Snake, Curveball

Groups of the Year
This year the Best of the Best of groups was dominated by the Nike Truck Tours. Ozzie, Chris, and Brian tore it up touring all over the country visiting countless high schools, running camps and events while uploaded tons and tons of content to the site. Their hard work paid off when the Nike Cross Nationals saw its best year to date, and the trio combined to take home 3 of the 8 group awards. But they weren't the only ones that impressed. The RunnerSpace Training site has been picking up speed since it started, Baby Boot Camp Eugene showed us a killer design, and Team XO was rockin' from the beginning.

Group of the Year	Runners Up
- West, Midwest, East Nike XC Tour	RunnerSpace LIVE, Training, OTC Elite

Best Group Idea/Theme	Runners Up
- West, Midwest, East Nike XC Tour	RunnerSpace LIVE, Training, Steen's Alumni

Best Group Content	Runners Up
- Training	OSU Women's CC/Track, OTC Elite, chasingBOLT

Best Group Site Design	Runners Up
- Baby Boot Camp - Eugene, OR	The Hurdle Masters, RunningDVDs, Nike

Most Active Group	Runners Up
- Team XO	Midwest XC Tour, RunnerSpace Help, West XC Tour

Best Group Name	Runners Up
- Pre's Posse Running Club	chasingBOLT, Active at Altitude, Noo Yawkers

Best Group Logo	Runners Up
- Anaconda Running Club	El Guapo Running Club, The Hurdle Masters, Bowerman AC

Most Popular Group	Runners Up
- Midwest Nike XC Tour	Team XO, Nike, adidas

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Having a Beer With Ross Krempley

For hard-core track junkies, coverage of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in the daily newspaper or on television news just doesn’t satisfy.

They want more: More interviews, more details, more discussion of the night’s events.

For that, a handful of running-centric Web sites with ambitious hopes for the future are providing video clips, still photographs, blogs and forums so track fans can indulge their appetite for news of the fleet. (One thing you won’t see on these sites is video highlights of the actual track and field events during the Trials. NBC Sports owns exclusive rights to the meet and isn’t about to let some Web site steal its thunder.)