Fire Barb McKeever! wrote:
rexthebex wrote:So why would he start at the very back of the pack? Because it is easier to slip off course and then jump back in later. Too bad he still screwed up the timing and didn't get the sub 20.
What happened to all you locals that promised to attend? Come on people.
While he may well have cheated, it's also possible that he started at the very back of the race because he knows that a good number of serious runners know who he is and will shout: "Cheater!" at him, especially if he starts at the front. Most of the walkers at the back aren't going to recognize him.
Sad and pathetic either way.
He had a three second chip/clock differential at The Rocky 5k, smack dab in the middle of Philadelphia, which lines him up near the front, but he goes to Haddonfiled, NJ and lines up in the back to avoid being recognized? I don't think so. You're going to make a serious attempt at breaking 20:00 for a 5k, an achievement that will net you a good amount of cash, so you line up in the very back forcing you to dodge, weave, and/or jump over slow people for the first half mile of the race? Some plan.
In initial results of local 5k's, I've seen "finishers" with similar chip/clock time differentials place in age divisions. By the end of the day, those people have been removed from the results after it was determined they were a walker or really slow jogger who somehow cut the course because they got tired and couldn't run the whole way.