Welcome everybody to 18th edition of VOTE YOUR RUNNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEK!!!

4 Running post from 4 of our "Approved Runners" have been selected in order to choose who is the Running Author of the Week, and this is a task that YOU have to do by telling us your choice at the comments of this post.

The 4 nominated Authors are:

REMINDER ON HOW THE CONTEST WORKS:

Readers of the post will vote which is the Running Author of the week, who will be awarded with the part of the earnings of the same report.

• The main criteria we use in order to nominate the candidates is the Quality and Originality of the Post, but nevertheless we will try to choose also posts done by Approved Runners which visibility is low due to, either, they are newcomers to the STEEM ecosystem and to the @runningproject initiative or, also authors that have not been nominated before or have been nominated, but we feel, they should be nominated again!

• The ''Running Authors'' will be awarded with a portion of the 50% of the SBD earned on this post approximately after one week of its publication, so all of them will be rewarded but just one will be the ''Author of the week''.

• The prize will be split as follows:

      ''Author of the week'': 70% 
      ''Consolation Prize'': 30% divided among the other authors.
  

A dedicated post will be published by @runningproject announcing the winner on following Saturday.

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NOMINATED RUNNING AUTHORS AND RELATED POST

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@trevor.george: ''How many hills could an ultra runner run if an ultra runner could run hills?''

^{Our most experienced Ultrarunner writing about his feelings while increasing his heartbeat for a long time during his last long run on hills. The whole @runningproject community is happy to see that @trevor.george is fully recovered from a persistent virus that attacked him during last weeks. Keep on running mate!}

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@wolfje: "Running Matters #14"

^{Outstanding post of self-motivation. @wolfje is an example of personal growth, a persistent and constant hard-worker, building the basis of his preparation for his first Marathon.}

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@dabeckster: ''Run for Poetry (and Steem) - My Moving Meditation''

^{Another good reason for running, meditation, get inspiration during your runs, change the routine...Running helps in many ways, @dabeckster finds the inspiration for writing and reflects so in this amazing post with a poem included. Fantastic!}

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@run.vince.run: ''Time Saving Tips For Runners''

^{The ability of @run.vince.run to transmit all his running knowledge in a post is impressive. He has been regularly nominated, but he really deserves to be every week here because always has an excellent post to apply. Well done comrade!}

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NOW IS YOUR TURN!!!

• If you like this post, please, give a good upvote first and resteem it if possible in order to increase the number of views.
• Then, have a view of the nominated runners and selected posts.
• Put a comment writing which has been your preferred author
• You can vote until the end of Friday, 18th of May and we will announce the winner on Saturday the 19th of May.

Anyone can participate in this! You can vote even if you are not approved runner of the @runningproject.

But if you do run, you can do both: you can vote and become approved runner… read on!

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HOW TO GET INVOLVED and BECOME an "Approved" Runner

The main milestone of the @runningproject now is to get as much STEEMPOWER as possible so the UPVOTE power will be growing day by day with the entrance of new members as well as because of the reinvestment of all the curation and the majority of the earnings produced on the post published by @runningproject.

In order to get enrolled you just need to do the following steps:

1. Write a comment in this post or any other from @runningproject with a link to one of your posts about running, requesting its review.

2. After checking your post, @runningproject will decide if you are or are not an "Approved" Runner. "Low quality" post will not be considered.

3. If you are definitely an "Approved" Runner, @runningproject will reply to you asking to send 1SBD or 1STEEM as an "Enrollment Fee."

4. You will be included in the "CURATION LIST"

The initial "Enrollment Fee" is entirely used as STEEM POWER. This fee, 1 SDB/STEEM, may increase in the future depending on the number of members and Market price.
Additional donations will be also fully invested in STEEM POWER.

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For more information about the @runningproject please read ''The Steem Running Project: Introductory Post'' and also The Steem Running Project 8th Status Report: Upvotes Forever in all posts of our Approved runners!.

^{Post created by @toofasteddie as assigned Runner Witness of @runningproject}