I actually met him at Broad Street on Sunday! He was wearing the Boston jacket, and he introduced himself as the guy who'd written the letter to the principal (which of course I'd read). We had sort of a long talk - I was cheering in Boston this year, and we talked about the terrible weather. He mentioned the injury (which apparently wasn't bad enough to keep him from *apparently* running Broad Street in 1:09 a few weeks later), and he said he wants to do the Chicago/NYC double this fall. I told him I've run both races, and would be happy to share insights about the courses; he said "find me on Facebook!" I didn't look him up until today, and now of course he's completely locked down his profile.
Ironically, I qualified for Boston 2016 in Chicago last fall - I ran 3:43:04, and I can assure you that I did not do it on 15 miles a week. I had to chip away at it over the course of 8 marathons, each one getting a little faster than the one before. I trained very, very seriously, and I had a near-perfect day - it was a PR by more than 9 minutes. But I know that a 116-second cushion still might not be enough to get me into the race, and if I were to find out that somebody like Kip Litton/Rosie Ruiz/possibly Mike Rossi cheated me out of my hard-earned place on the starting line in Hopkinton, I would want to get medieval on that person.
And furthermore, if you make a huge, public deal about showing your kids what it means to work hard and achieve a goal, and then you get caught cheating, you are a total jerk.