Marathon

At the precise moment when even more evidence regarding Frank Meza's 2019 LA Marathon Result was being uncovered, Canadian Running Magazine published an article regarding the "accusations"against Frank. https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/70-year-old-marathoner-suspected-of-course-cutting/ Meza...

Scott Kummer was first accused of cheating in 2017 on the popular running site letsrun.com. The evidence presented was damning. He had no footpod data for any of his runs. This startling revelation was believed to be...

Frank Meza has two record breaking Marathons in 2019. Yesterday I provided information relating to The 2019 Los Angeles Marathon. Prior to The L.A. Marathon, Frank set an age group record at...

On Groundhog Day, the marathon runners of The 2020 Warm Up Columbus Marathon ran 26 one mile loops (plus one partial loop) to earn their marathon medals. The preliminary results showed the winner finished...

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I initially saw the article in the print version of Runner's World. It was shared with me by a couple of readers. 'The Bandit's Manifesto'. In it, they list 10 things not to do if you bandit a race along...

Heather Lieberg won The Austin Marathon. She was leading the elite women very early on in the race. Despite this, she found herself engaged in an unexpected battle with Mary Akor. Mary is an elite runner, who...

It was shown that Valerie has run many races with forged bibs. The article I published yesterday only showed some of the examples of this behavior.  There were more egregious instances of bib copying. The picture at the top of...

Honolulu Marathon On Tuesday, I was critical of The Honolulu Marathon, and their refusal to publish the full results. They made bib number, and name required fields to pull up an individual's splits. I made the decision to publish the...

Shortly after The 2017 Mexico City Marathon, I received requests to review the results. A Facebook page popped up outing many alleged cheaters. I read comments that there were 1000's of cheaters - runners that cut the course. I was...