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Dvorak Feb 2020 3:05pm, 29 Feb 2020 19,109 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Baroness, thread is here fetcheveryone.com/forum__60303__1__first_finisher_at_cambridge_hm_is_not_the_winner Looking at his powerof10, doesn't look like any general sanction was applied, and I presume his club were not bothered. thepowerof10.info
Wriggling Snake Feb 2020 3:11pm, 29 Feb 2020 25,655 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake Is this all cheating? If it is I get really pissed off when my pint glass is not full.
Sweetie Feb 2020 3:37pm, 29 Feb 2020 5,364 posts	Quote Pin Sweetie I don't know anyone who cheats but I am familiar with a runner who consistently lies about their finish times. They'll say they did a 1:50 half marathon and you check the official results and they did 2:10. Results are public record so I have never quite worked out what possesses them to do it. Do they honestly think they're fooling people (and where is the satisfaction for them in that) or are they actually deluded and believe they got a faster time than they did?
oprah Mar 2020 8:38pm, 1 Mar 2020 248 posts	Quote Pin oprah Sweetie - I've encountered that, too! It's so weird. I was actually just listening to a podcast today about dishonesty. His point is that most people only end up doing this because the opportunity arises, not because they're inherently bad, and that it starts as something small that somehow balloons. npr.org This is similar to another story about a runner I'd read about. He decided to try out EPO and didn't realise how well it worked until suddenly he won a race and they tested him and then he was banned and it sort of ruined his life because he couldn't race anymore. I know there are a gazillion other threads about this, but I feel this way about Vaporflys. I'm completely happy with Kipchoge wearing them to test out the proof of concept of sub-2 as a stepping stone to achieving that. But as a fun runner, why would you wear springs in your shoes? You might as well attach motor to your bike for the sportive.
plodding hippo Mar 2020 5:00am, 2 Mar 2020 51,082 posts	Quote Pin plodding hippo Sadly I've seen quite a bit of cheating during marathons I run. The people in question conveniently never wear gps devices
Dave W Mar 2020 6:13am, 2 Mar 2020 732 posts	Quote Pin Dave W In my Victor Book for Boys reading days a long time ago, I remember Alf Tupper, the "Tough of the Track" got suspicious about a runner beating him in races. It ended up being twins, and he reacted in the good old Alf Tupper way. He twatted them both
Paul N Mar 2020 6:45am, 2 Mar 2020 754 posts	Quote Pin Paul N Life imitating art - atlasobscura.com
Albert O Balsam Mar 2020 12:53pm, 3 Mar 2020 640 posts	Quote Pin Albert O Balsam You know - I've never seen anything that could be called cheating in the running sphere I operate in. Perhaps it's because I've always tended to hang around the back of the pack. I have seen people trying to get into pens that were not allocated to them at London. I have a friend, who used to work as a printer, who told me that every year they'd get people asking him to make up illicit London marathon numbers so they could run the race - but nothing I could label as trying to get an advantage during the race itself
Oranj Mar 2020 1:22pm, 3 Mar 2020 1,908 posts	Quote Pin Oranj @Sweetie I had a nephew who told me he'd run the London Marathon in 'about 4 hours'. He must've known that as a keen runner I'd look up his result, see how he got on. Result: something around 6 hours, IIRC. I've never asked him, but I'm also puzzled as to why you'd lie like that.
swittle Mar 2020 1:28pm, 3 Mar 2020 61,269 posts	Quote Pin swittle RW goes to town annually on suspect performances in the London Marathon. Here's the thread for 2019s event: forums.runnersworld.co.uk