Suspicious top female result at Paso Robles half marathon

10K started 30 minutes later. Same finish line. Maybe she was given the wrong bib, a 1/2 bib instead of a 10K bib and she did the 10K. There are multiple ways an error could have happened. That's assuming she left after she finished and didn't accept the podium/award. If she didn't go to the podium, I'd 90% think there was an honest mistake or error involved, rather than intentional cheating based on what we know at the moment.

Is there no video of her running? It shouldn’t be hard to tell a 1:16 10K running form apart from a HM with the same time.

Wouldn’t she then be a 46-minute 10k runner?

She's not on Strava.

WTF are you even talking about? Mary Noel is listed as the top female finisher.

My buddy used to yell "I love tacos" a lot while out drinking. In his drunken state it meant one of two things, neither of which applied to course cutting.

Nope Noel is 2nd female in 1:21

But if you go to the results themselves, she's second to Jeanne C.: https://raceresults.eternaltiming.com/20221113_Wine_Country_Half_Marathon_and_10K.htm

Good, that means the race directors know that she's the real winner, and all is well. But the results on eternaltiming need to be updated.

When I made this thread that hadn't been posted on the website yet. Does that make sense to you?

Remember when the LRC crowd hounded and pestered someone over a minor age-group race result until they committed suicide?

It's almost like maybe we should let this one go.

It’s not unusual for new results to have some irregularities for a few days until they are corrected.

You’ve called out some poor hobbyjogger out as a cheater.

Y’all are nuts. ✌️ out

LRC Department of ObSesSIve Cyber-Stalker Sleuths goes home DEVASTATED!

hilarious. a big 'ol hub bub over nothing.

Does waiting until the actual results to come out before you throw out someone's name as a cheater to hundreds of thousands of strangers make sense to you?

Well, if she was DQ'd then I guess that means they determined her result was bogus. That's not evidence against cheating. It could be evidence that they found she cut the course, or it be something else altogether. Either way, OP is validated because the result proved to be inauthentic.

Just looking at the results, seems like the woman in question switched her entry from the half marathon to the 10K, along with her friend (both from Austin). Both have two bib numbers shown:

• The friend has one bib under the half marathon with a DNS or DNF (no result shown) and one bib (#452) in the 10K with a result
• The woman in question has two bibs that are both for the half marathon. One has no result and the second (#453) has the result shown

Seems most likely bib #453 was supposed to be for the 10K (just like #452) but there was some kind of error in switching the registration that hadn't yet been sorted out in the preliminary data posted. #453 is also the only bib over 400 that's in the half marathon results.

Never happened. The LRC crowd discussed the case back and forth for months until we finally came up with conclusive proof of cheating. There was no record of any contact or attempted contact between the thread participants and the cheater. The people who did the pestering were national media outlets who found the story noteworthy.

If you don't like the outcome, 1) tell your friends not to cheat; 2) tell your friends that offing themselves over getting caught cheating isn't worth it; 3) go complain to the national media outlets that actually reported the story. Tell them to stop reporting on newsworthy stories. See how far that gets you.

Good lord, really? You people still won't accept any responsibility even now?

Be a better person.

Yes. It is a little weird to post this on a public forum to track down a nobody from a nobody race. people are way too bored these days.