Please enjoy my long read.
Did not cheat? Sure. The Solstice 10k race is a perfect example and only one.
http://kiplitton.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html
Check the photo of him at the start of the Solstice 10k with what "appears" to be a long black t-shirt. I know why he started in the back and did so in many races. It was me who first posted what seemed so obvious but alluded many and I still don't know why (I am off course Oscar).
Now stay with me here as it's gets real tricky.
So he was jogging behind everyone at the beginning, correct? I mean you can't deny it as that's him in the photo. He then passed how many people with not one person seeing him flying by? 500? 450? At least 300 people and that's being extremely conservative.
The lady wearing number 205 is Erin. Erin ran 57:43, 9:18 per mile. Good job Erin and please understand that this is not a dis on you, but I'm merely using your finish time as an example because you are in the photo.
There were over 560 finishers in that race. Not one person saw him stop, remove his hat (which he would have had to have done), throw off his dark shirt to expose his light DRY grey shirt, and then start running again. If you wore a black shirt over a light grey shirt in late June in Michigan it would be more wet than if you just wore the grey shirt alone (simple physics).
Not one person saw him flying by, not one. Coincidence?
To get up to 9th place he would have passed many people, hundreds. I know at least one of the master runners and he would have remembered him going by.
HIs family, friends, trolls, staunch supporters, etc...can not look at the above evidence and say he completed the same course that everyone else did. It's simply an impossibility.
Why would you have a black shirt on over your race shirt for a 10k road race in Michigan in late June? Why not put your number on your shorts like the man in the photo to the far left did? Who would be running at that pace and know that they are going to have to lose time taking off a shirt? Heck he was competing with the top masters. What were they wearing and where did they start in the race? Near the front.
Well, we all know why.
In addition, the theory of him getting lost in this race is all wet...unlike his t-shirt:) When you start that far back you are always passing runners and no one would get lost on that course, trust me. Easy to cut, but get lost on, no way!
If you don't want to be seen, you surely are NOT going to be warming up around anybody as you don't want anyone who might know you to see you, for obvious reasons. Try explaining why you aren't lining up with them versus the back of the pack.
That's why the shoe changing thing is total bullcrap. He was not warming up by the starting line running back and forth, that's horse hockey! He was avoiding the whole area as not to be seen. If he laid shoes down before a marathon, someone see him during this action.
Notice the photo of him coming from the parking lot? That alone should explain it as that's the plan people.
I realize trollist, etc...are just losers and I don't even read their posts as I'd rather be cutting the grass or digging a ditch. But for those who really don't get it, I hope my example of one race helps you to better understand. If the race director disqualified me from a 10k race, I'd be protesting to the nth degree as I'd never cheat. According to what I've read, Kip didn't even respond to the race director. That alone should speak volumes.
To AfterAllThis. Almost no way he could have cheated??? Good luck debunking the above.