Award.All five of the individuals below have been nominated by you, the Runner’s World reader, and all five have had an extraordinary impact on the running community. Like the award’s namesake - Jane Tomlinson - our 2009 nominees’ seemingly boundless

Ethiopian Run. I also got the chance to interview Haile Gebrselassie, who had just returned from winning the Dubai Marathon in the second-fastest time ever. It was a very surreal experience to be talking to probably the greatest distance runner of all time

runners have in their diets? supersonic 16 I stopped for my first marathon but now I carry on as normal. I try to restrict it to just one mug on race day though, but that's more to cut down on peeing rather than any other reason. But I'm by no means a

and the rest is history - it’s my second half-marathon on Sunday, and I’ve got a whole new world, vocabulary and wardrobe! Foxy Lady My wedding day was in October 2008 so I started running with my now wife, who’s always run. I lost nearly two stone and looked