Ananlize my Chicago Splits

You should have stayed on the motorcycle that got you from 25K to 30K so fast. Are those legit? If so, with some pacing you could kick butt.

Methinks someone in the 55-59 age group is calling out Mr. Jurena.

Running a stand alone 10k at 38:33 would predict under 3 hours with the proper endurance training. Running 38:33 for the first 10k and being able to run 20 additional miles suggests that 2:50 or better is possible.

I looked on the marathon website and these are legit splits.

Displaying 1 to 1 of 1 Unofficial Race Results

WILLIAM P JURENA | Bib #5431 | ATLANTA, GA - UNITED STATES | Age 55 | M | USA

START 5K 10K 15K 20K HALF 25K 30K 35K 40K FINISH

7:59:24 AM CST 0:38:33 0:56:39 1:23:20 1:29:05 1:47:28 2:04:27 2:33:41 2:52:53 3:07:37

TIME Chip Time: 3:07:37 Clock: 3:08:01 Pace: 7:09

Placement Overall: 1478 Gender: 1301 Division: 7

However, the fast splits all occur on the parts of the course where it would be a lot easier to cut the course. The first 3 miles wind a lot so cutting the course get you a fast first 10k. It would be possible to cut over to the west to cut off ground inbetween 10k and 15k. It would be very difficult to gut much ground inbetween 15k and 25k and still cross all the chip mats. Cutting south early after 25k cut could a lot of ground off inbetween there and 30k.Cutting the course to get to the 35k mark would be difficult but after 35k it would be very easy to use a side street to cut over to Michigan on your way to the 40k, but after 40k theres really no way to cut the course. I'm prone to think William Jurena figured that he could get away with cheating if he crossed every chipmat.

I hit 10k in 39:58, on my way to a DNF @ 23 miles, and sometime shortly after that I passed an older, heavyset man who clearly had not just run a faster 10k than me. That would actually fit pretty well with Jurena cutting the start to get to the 10k mark early and then cutting over to the 15k.

If I'm wrong I apologize but this clearly seems to be an example of someone blatantly cutting the course at multiple locations. The lack of a 5k split is particularly interesting.

His 5k split was the 38:33...

no, it seems his 5k split did not register...it's blank on the results page.

the 38:xx was the 10K as indicated.

cheater.

That is fascinating. You guys caught a serial cheater !

Weird...that somebody would do that. I thought Rosie Ruiz was the last of the kind. Silly me. With all the chip mats too...strange that the chip was evidently run over the start, but not the 5k mat. Is this guy taking taxi cabs around town?

I thought I remembered that name. Hard to believe that he is still getting into races.

jurena, you owe me gas money!

so william what do you have to say for yourself?

speak up man..

did you cheat..?

This site gets weirder and weirder.

Also better and better.

get real dude wrote:

so william what do you have to say for yourself?

speak up man..

did you cheat..?

No need to ask, it's obvious. Just look at the map.

where can i find current photos of this jackass?

are there chi marathon photos?

google "William Jurena" and a world of interesting info comes up. In the 2000 Pittsburgh Marathon, for example:

1705 215 William Jurena, 48, Duluth, PA 4:44:39 10:52

So he's either improved one heck of a lot in the past six years, as he's aged from 48 to 54, or......

NYC history (still listed, not disqualified)

Year Name______ Sex/Age Bib State Place Sex Pl. Age Pl. Official Time Net Time 10K Split Half Mar. 20M Split Pace/ Mile

2003 WILLIAM JURENA M52 1430 GA 7271 5972 443 3:58:24 3:57:38 41:57 1:32:22 2:52:19 9:04

2004 WILLIAM JURENA M53 3890 GA 2849 2487 188 3:32:40 3:32:02 56:34 1:48:30 2:34:59 8:05

2005 WILLIAM JURENA M54 4635 GA 944 880 40 3:08:22 3:07:58 46:41 1:30:47 (NO 20M split) 7:10

Note that although there is no 20 M split last year, his half marathon split supports the faster finish time.

Perhaps he is legit, or... perhaps he is getting more clever at how to cheat.

o.k try this...

judging from the photos looks like he never broke a sweat...