No mules or... strava my a$s? :-)
7 watchers
Sep 2024
1:20pm, 9 Sep 2024
50,862 posts
|
HappyG(rrr)
Heard this on bbc but can only find newspaper reports - people paying "mules" to run with their app, phone or watch to log a time they couldn't do in a race or even training run. dailystar.co.uk I trust this has never happened on Fetch. Is it another advantage we can claim over the Orange Place? No mules!  G
|
Sep 2024
1:23pm, 9 Sep 2024
4,029 posts
|
cackleberry
Lol we joke about doing this all the time. One person wears everyones watches and does the run, the rest of us go to pub... PS we've never actually done it though... honest. |
Sep 2024
1:24pm, 9 Sep 2024
6,383 posts
|
paulcook
I think Derek, the marathon investigations guy, has done stuff about this before.
|
Sep 2024
1:29pm, 9 Sep 2024
25,035 posts
|
Meglet
I’ve heard of people taking someone else’s chip in a race, presume to get a qualifying time for something. But don’t really understand why people will do it on |
Sep 2024
1:30pm, 9 Sep 2024
3,929 posts
|
Bowman 🇸🇪
I'm sure it has happened here to This place has just a cross section of the population, even if it's a really cool place with mostly lovely people. |
|
Sep 2024
1:31pm, 9 Sep 2024
50,863 posts
|
HappyG(rrr)
I think the difference is social media "influencers" (which I think just means anyone who has lots of people following them on things like Instagram, TikTok etc.) are advertising this quite openly as a service, with a "price per mile" given! Yet another problem of and nail in the coffin of the Orange Place?! G
|
Sep 2024
1:34pm, 9 Sep 2024
70,842 posts
|
Velociraptor
You think nobody ever sat on their sofa and drew a route manually, or uploaded an old session, to get badges for Fetchpoint and Conquercise?  I suppose getting someone to carry your Garmin to look better on S****a is no worse than what Kate Carter did, and she hasn't lost her job or been banned from any races. |
Sep 2024
1:40pm, 9 Sep 2024
43,774 posts
|
Nellers
Gerry Taggert (ex-pro footballer) was once given an early HR monitor so he could do some of his training at home and got caught out because he strapped it to his dog and sat on a bench at the park throwing the ball and the dog did the running. Would that count? I have manually recreated run routes for games on here when my watch has glitched but never for a non-existent run. Not at all surprised people do this, though. The internet isn't real, and nor are the people that live there. (Except us. Fetchies are real, and lovely.) |
|
Sep 2024
1:43pm, 9 Sep 2024
6,384 posts
|
paulcook
Alex Hartley once told of a similar story on TMS but that was a HR monitor used at Laserquest.
|
|
Sep 2024
2:13pm, 9 Sep 2024
50,864 posts
|
HappyG(rrr)
Gosh you lot are cynical. I believe everything on the internet. Hang on, are you real? Is your dog typing your responses?! G
|
Related Threads
-
So who won the tour from 1999 to 2005
May 2024
-
Cheating Marathon Man...?
Feb 2024
-
Cheating
Feb 2024
-
For the bored - Amir’s Marathons
Jul 2020
-
Di Potassium Phosphate - is it race legal or doping?
Mar 2020
-
First finisher at Cambridge HM is not the winner
Sep 2019
-
Jailed for using a dropped number...
Jul 2018
-
Accused of cheating on Strava
Jul 2017
-
Dan Evans - Moron or Muppet? Discuss.......
Jun 2017
-
London Marathon Chip Timing Question
Apr 2017