Another Runner was identified with questionable results at the 2016 Nashville Marathon. In addition to Nashville, this runner has a BQ time at RNR Seattle in 2015. Either of these times could currently be used for entry to the 2017 Boston Marathon.

Beyond these two Boston Qualifying races, I will provide evidence that he has cheated in half marathons as well. The most definitive evidence comes from the runner’s own Strava data.

2014 Chicago Marathon – Verifiable Result 3:49:31

The runner pictured above has a legitimate Chicago marathon time of 3:49:31. He appears in multiple photos, and hit all of the timing mats.

2015 Rock N Roll Seattle Marathon

He has no splits – occasional technical problems do arise, and a single missed mat by itself is not unusual. But, this runner only registered at the start and the finish. He was not recorded at any of the intermediate mats.

Chip/Clock differential is over 45 minutes. This is a technique that frequently arises with course cutters. They wait until all the runners are passed, to pass the start line and leave the course unnoticed. Additionally, someone starting this late would have to weave through many runners/walkers that are competing at a much slower pace.

No Photos of this Runner on MarathonFoto.com

2016 Rock N Roll Nashville Marathon

He registered only 1 split. He hit the 10 mile mat in 1:16:32. He would have had to have run the remaining 16.2 miles at a 6:39 pace. None of his verifiable races show that he is capable of running that pace. Again, we see a large chip/clock differential – over 30 minutes. No Photos of this Runner on MarathonFoto.com

Half Marathons

I am presenting just some of the evidence as it is more definitive than the missing data from the marathons.

2015 Baltimore Running Festival Half Marathon

He registered a finishing time of 1:38:09 with relatively significant negative splits.

Below is the map of the course. Notice the loop around the lake between miles 7 and 8. Inexplicably there is a 10.8 mile mat, but nothing to ensure that runners do the loop around that lake.

Here is the smoking gun. As I have found many times in my investigations, people like to share their runs on social media. In this case we have Strava data, and their very helpful flyby feature. Click the link below to watch.

Notice when the runner arrives at the lake, and the path he takes as opposed to the other runners. That is the runner that is being investigated.

2015 Rock ‘N Roll Vegas Half Marathon

No Splits Nearly 20 Minute Clock/Gun Differential. For reference, the runner pictured in frame with him, had an approximate 5 minute differential.

I will be forwarding this information to the marathons in an effort to have the runner disqualified so that these times can not be used to enter Boston in 2017.

This runner was initially brought to my attention by a reader of the blog. This is why I feel it is important to continue publicizing these cases. The main goal of the blog is to make people aware that cheating is a problem, and provides an outlet to report suspected cases of cheating. Hopefully the publicity also serves as a deterrent.