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That annoying moment your chip fails in the London Marathon
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My club does the marshalling along the highway from before 13 miles to after 14 miles. Not only have I heard nobody mention how they came across someone claiming to have re-joined the race in the wrong direction, but also there would have been no problem in getting her to climb back over the barrier and continue in an easterly direction back towards Canary Wharf if she'd have wanted. I've marshalled exactly there when I've been injured in the past.
That said, I think she should have braved it out. Insisted that her chip was faulty and that she ran the second half in under an hour. If anyone says otherwise, then accuse them of sexism. And racism. Reckon she could have squeezed an appearance on Pointless Celebrities out of it.
Careful what you wish for cougie, they'll have PhilPub in his hotpants next.
Don't give him ideas Dave...
I looke up the Vaz story on Run247 yesterday, Good to see he's running going to run it in reverse and even quicker to shut up the critics.
Any thoughts on this which I've seen all over Facebook. Supposedly the guy wasn't picked up at the 5km
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14482989.Can_you_help__Mum_scours_internet_for_proof_to_clear__gutted__son_accused_of_cheating_in_the_London_Marathon/
Can anyone find the deleted splits ?
So IF that was his first timing then I'd think it should be a DQ. Nobody could run a 33min 10k through that mass of people.
I see there is some more details here.
http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2016/05/photo-evidence-proves-timing-issue-in.html
So someone has found his finish line photo, and got his gun finish time from the runner next to him, which means it took him 16 mins to cross start line from blue. This is quite long, although not inconceivable if he was at the back...it took me nearly 12 mins and I was at front of pen 9. Incidentally I ran a 3:59, very similar to his time.
Apparently he's been spotted on video shortly after the 10k point at 10:52 am, which would mean first 10k in about 34 mins. So either a) he ran a 34 min 10k in a massive crowd with loads of slow runners in the way and then slowed down massively, averaging 63 mins per 10k for the rest or b) he cut part of the course. Seems odd to cut it that early and then run the rest of the race, maybe he got confused somehow, though I'm not really sure how you could go the wrong way by accident when there's thousands of other runners to follow.
All very odd - but reading what his mum is saying I think she's going to have to back down a little on his time.
He either ran the Marathon in about 4:13 or he cheated.
He definitely didn't run the marathon in 3:58.
The Vaz story is entertaining, apparently his Power of 10 PB for marathon is 3.24 yet on day 60 or something of his 400 in 365 days he managed to go 2.5x before realising it was the wrong strategy and continued at 4+ hrs per distance. Having started with the idea of the 400 he now thinks it would be possible to go for 1000 in 730, while holding down a job, guessing half mara before and after work and then 3 a day on weekends should be fine, hmmm...
I bet he is really regretting the LEJOG attempt.......until then he could live on all the local admiration... they wanted to name a street after him... he had got sponsorship and lot of people helping him out and facebook friends around the country encouraging him......and occasionally raised the odd fiver for charity.....
he just kept on increasing the challenge so he never had to submit anything to Guinness and so he didnt have to provide proof for any of the runs that he might have missed or given up on..
he was a local hero...
and then he believes he is infallible and tries to say he smashed the world record for such a hard 860 miler and is surprised when the ultra community come out in mass to call him a fraud.....
with minimal support he also claimed to break the 400 miles without sleep record........and we all know how easy it is to continue running in a strange place and navigate yourself around the country without sleep....
he has now lost it all
He had even managed to get himself a deal with New Balance for free trainers (and Microsoft for a free Microsoft band - although it seems he didn't work out how to start it). Not to mention free kit/food/accommodation/Transport/Race entries. I'll bet he hoped the record would go under the radar and keep him as a local hero. Absolute madness, although given the list of freebies maybe he was actually a genius!
It would be interesting to see how much money raised went to the charities. Its a terrible thing to say, but given his lies its hard to believe anything he said.
http://captiongenerator.com/89716/LEJOG-the-truth
anyone following the mark vaz debarkle.
I'm surprised noone has done one about here
My shorts and Godwin's Law on the same page. Get in!
Now been reinstated ITV_report
But he's not on #oneinamillion list - I wonder how they'll deal with that!
I think the #oneinamillion is more like #oneinamillionishgiveortakedoyouwanttobuyateeshirt ?
The guiltiest person is the journalist (ha ha) who couldn't write even one sentence without using the word "devastated". It's a crime against reporting.
I guess this story has already been mentioned - a woman who won the St. Louis marathon...somehow finishing ahead of the lead bikes!
In the article it mentions another famous incident (that I'd never heard of). In 1980, the Boston marathon was won by a woman who just jumped on to the course a mile from the end!
http://runhaven.com/2015/04/18/woman-cheats-way-st-louis-marathon-title-loses-boston-entry/
http://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2016/05/examination-of-world-record-marathoners.html
so many out there
I just spent an hour reading this entire thread.
Should have skipped a bit.
Is it just me or does anybody else think that photo of Parvaneh Moayedi looks like a bloke in drag?