Best New WUS Concept of the Year: Atomic WUS
Best New WUS Concept of the Year, Runner-Up: HalloWUS
Best New Way for WUSsies to Kill 20 Minutes: NECtr podcast
Best New Way to Make Family Holidays Suck Less for WUSsies: Thanksgiving Turkey Chase at Keith’s house
Best New WUS (human): Cora Watkins
Best New WUS (canine): Miles
Best Quote on a Run: Joco (who else?), playing S/F/M
Best Blood: Sean A.
Best use of a reflective vest and birthday hat: Joco
PJ traverses Lebanon
Performance of the Year (overall, male): Trevor, Beer Mile
Performance of the Year (overall, male, runner up): PJ, traversing an entire country
Performance of the Year (overall, female): Robin, 2nd at Highland Sky with baby on board
Performance of the Year (documentary): Julian, Where Dreams Go to Die
Best new nickname: Tpuff
Performance of the Year (dog poo): Deb
Performance of the Year (finally getting WUS off bloody Yahoo): Keith
Performance of the Year (swag): Brienne
Performance of the Year (in shaming other WUSsies): Trevor, for running more miles at the Moab 240 in October than all nine WUSsies combined ran at the Moab 50k/30k earlier in February
WUS Et tu, Brute? Award: Leah passing Robin on the final road section of Highland Sky
WUS Yeti Award: Sarah Coen
Boyz of the Barkley
Worst Performance of the Year: Jared, Donut Run RD
Worst Performance of the Year, Runner-Up: Baine family (HalloWUS)
Worst Performance of the Year (Voting Bloc): WUS, all of us (Trevor for VHTRC Board)
Worst Performance of the Year (ultra-runner superfan): Martha asking John Kelly / Gary Robbins / the Ginger Runner who they are and what they’re doing in DC.
Worst Performance of the Year (in finding cool rocks): Keith
Worst Performance of the Year (Beer Mile): lady with dog who ‘warned’ us that the cops had been called
Worst Performance of the Year (restraint from petting a service animal): Martha, with Miles in Moab
Worst Performance of the Year (ordering take-out): Leah and Sean
Biggest Year-Over-Year Decline in Performance: Aaron, data tracking of beer mile
Worst Decision of the Year: Julian, moving to the UK
Slowest WUS: The one with Amy Sproston
Annual Farewell of WUSsies to the West: Cricket, Steven
Hardest WUS Farewell: Foster dog Jax 🙁
Hardest WUS Farewell, Runner-up: TunesForBears
It’s you amazing peeps who give me the crazy-spiration I’ve needed to keep my swag afloat in the District. So, from the bottom of my adrenaline junkie soul, cheers to the auld lang syne action and to future WUStacularness!