Thanks for getting back on track, Lone Gunman!
I've been reading this thread and its predecessors since late 2010 (which, for the record, makes me a real loser). Seems it has really gotten taken over by Litton himself posing as fawning former patients, Litton posing as his friends, Litton posing as Mark Singer and Litton posing (most effectively) as most of the flatulent trolls.
Now that the New Yorker article and the article in his hometown paper have been published, I wonder whether this thread is actually useful anymore. He has been outed as a cheater in a very public way, so there is virtually no way that he can whitewash his dishonesty. This thread is a massive time-suck for me, so I would love to see it finally get removed, as I can't seem to control the way I spend my time. If it were to disappear, I might actually go to bed at a normal time and spend time with my family!
But...the first hundred pages or so are so incredibly excellent as a record of great detective work! In gratitude to Lone Gunman for attempting to get the thread back on track, I would highlight two additional examples of Litton's cheating, which didn't make it into the New Yorker article, but did get some action on SOKLR's site and earlier pages in this thread. For me, the impossibility of starting 4:04 back and weaving through 4,000 slow runners in the 2010 BAA 5K en route to a 17:17 is the most convincing example of Litton's dishonesty. A close second is his 2010 Vermont City Marathon for the same reason. You can read more here:
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/08/davison_dentists_improbable_ru.html
Secretly hoping the thread finally gets deleted or I get hit by a car on my run tomorrow...