Patrick Wills was caught cheating at the Rocky Racoon 100 a couple years ago (see links below). Funny thing is that it was the exact same MO, not running an out and back section...
https://www.irunfar.com/this-week-in-running-february-5-2018
http://www.crockettclan.org/blog/?p=4165
https://humanpotentialrunning.com/from-the-rd/cheaters-gonna-cheat-haters-gonna-hate/
Marathon investigation actually did get contacted about it
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
I hope someone warns him about the curse of a woman named Annushka spilling sunflower oil causing poor Frank Meza to take an inadvertent leap off a bridge into the L.A. river.
As Michael Berry would say...you arrogant a**
Yep...i listen to talk radio to survey the right wing mind
If you don't think Murphy and Let's run caused a suicide then you are sick in the head and you need someone to end you
You're in Norcal even
No sweat . When i succeed, you're Hella gone.
It is very clear that he intentionally cut the course by viewing his Strava Flyby of the race. What an idiot.
Time for a multiple choice question to determine if an online troll is thinking correctly, or possibly deranged, a leftist, or maybe on the spectrum.
Who is responsible for Frank Mezas’s untimely demise?
A: Al Gore, inventor of the Interweb.
B: Supporters of the 45th POTUS
C: The same fellow who sold Shelby Houlihan a tainted burrito.
D: Frank himself.
runhills wrote:
It is very clear that he intentionally cut the course by viewing his Strava Flyby of the race. What an idiot.
https://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#6640893472?c=9vrfvcve&z=E&t=1X-z4v&a=IP7TixjF04vmNteLni7ei3FE6osah9WLd1PYizNl2IuJ59WL5UjViw&s=7f
Never saw anything like this before and I was a little confused by it at first. If you click on Patrick Willis's name and the name "Caleb," and then slide your cursor across the elevation guide at the bottom, you will see both runners icons moving through the course. Caleb has about a 2-minute lead on him and then Willis makes his cheat turn and Caleb is immediately 3-minutes behind. Funny thing is Caleb almost catches him by the end despite his cheating.
I want to see the full results and see how many people he passed like this. Five minutes in a HM can change things considerably. According to the 2020 results, 1:15:26 would have been 17th; 1:20:26 would have been 33rd.
He has now been DQ’d according to the results
this is a username wrote:
He has now been DQ’d according to the results
That's a good start, but let's post lots of photos of him and all the details we can find about his job, family, and friends. It's not over until he's found lying in a ditch! Do you realize what he did?!
I was looking at a couple of the image links someone posted earlier in the thread.
I have to laugh. Gets called out for not running the full course...then he replies with something about being sick of driving to races by himself, no crew/support/whatever. Like this has anything to do with not running the full distance.
Honest Mike wrote:
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
I hope someone warns him about the curse of a woman named Annushka spilling sunflower oil causing poor Frank Meza to take an inadvertent leap off a bridge into the L.A. river.
As Michael Berry would say...you arrogant a**
Yep...i listen to talk radio to survey the right wing mind
If you don't think Murphy and Let's run caused a suicide then you are sick in the head and you need someone to end you
You're in Norcal even
No sweat . When i succeed, you're Hella gone.
No one pushed him off the bridge...
He made the decision and he alone is responsible...
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
I was looking at a couple of the image links someone posted earlier in the thread.
I have to laugh. Gets called out for not running the full course...then he replies with something about being sick of driving to races by himself, no crew/support/whatever. Like this has anything to do with not running the full distance.
No crew? How is a 1:20 runner not sponsored yet? Brojos need to pull some strings and get this guy a contract!
The saddest thing about that is it appears RnR New Orleans totally changed the course. I ran it several times (4 I think) back from around 2009 through 2014 and it always started downtown, went down St Charles, turned around, went to French Quarter, then north up into that park where the full split from the half. I loved that course!
Oh Please wrote:
The saddest thing about that is it appears RnR New Orleans totally changed the course. I ran it several times (4 I think) back from around 2009 through 2014 and it always started downtown, went down St Charles, turned around, went to French Quarter, then north up into that park where the full split from the half. I loved that course!
Old course was awesome. They don't currently have enough police to staff that route, so they went with the modified course. Hoping to return to the old route in 2023.
How do you get to 50+ & still not know how to pace a distance race? Maybe he wouldn't have needed to cheat if he just went out at 6:05-6:10 pace.
dumbassMF wrote:
this is a username wrote:
He has now been DQ’d according to the results
That's a good start, but let's post lots of photos of him and all the details we can find about his job, family, and friends. It's not over until he's found lying in a ditch! Do you realize what he did?!
For real. Here’s hoping we are wrong.
He's still digging in his heels
"Course was Completely Crazy out and Backs All over the Place into crowds of 10-K Runners missed a section at a turn Around End of Story # I don’t Owe anyone an Excuse!!!!!!!!! I Run Because I Love it 🏃🏻❤️🔥 I missed a Turn and made a Mistake it Happens when you Run 100’s of Races."
Except he DIDN'T miss a turn. He made the turn, ran about 50 yards (instead of a half mile), and turned around.
runhills wrote:
It is very clear that he intentionally cut the course by viewing his Strava Flyby of the race. What an idiot.
https://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#6640893472?c=9vrfvcve&z=E&t=1X-z4v&a=IP7TixjF04vmNteLni7ei3FE6osah9WLd1PYizNl2IuJ59WL5UjViw&s=7f
It's an insane claim to make that he got confused. He was running an out-and-back on a dead-end park trail and there was no feedback that he should spontaneously turn around. It's baffling to me that people can be this brazen when called out.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.0298987,-90.0792885,612m/data=!3m1!1e3this is a username wrote:
He has now been DQ’d according to the results
He probably already received a prize or trophy for his finish though, kind of like Joe Biden and the Presidency.
What a jerk. I'll never understand cheating like this, especially when the only thing at stake is an AG award and bragging rights
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