Frank Meza 2:53:10 at LA Marathon (70 years old) unofficial time (just finished)

I’m only 20% weird. The other 80% is a lot funnier than you.

RSS scraping is often by those who lie about their marathon times. They are unscrupulous.

Fortunately cheaters can’t laugh. They are prisoners of their anger.

jesseriley wrote:

Fortunately cheaters can’t laugh. They are prisoners of their anger.

says the cheater himself

Liars and cheaters are often repulsed by those who do the same.

Good find. I know I always position myself next to walkers in puffer jackets whenever I wanna run a fast half. Love the hoodie, Littonesque.

to the troll jesse and the troll that is fighting jesse...NOONE CARES ABOUT EITHER OF YOU...please stop ruining this thread...go find a playground and play...leave the adults alone

To Marshallini. Just what I have hoped would show up...Frank Meza crossing the start line. I believe that is Frank Meza...you can bet it is not far past the start line that he floats off the course....

Says Roderick of the 200-word post...

Derek, I think considering Frank Meza passed his bib to Sara Tartof as she was finishing her "race" at the Pasadena half-marathon in January 2019, which she ran with Frank Meza's son and friend Phillip Bland...of which their are no posted results for Sara, Francisco Meza or Phillip Bland. I thinks this begs for an explanation. If these 3 were somehow comped, why did Frank Meza give Sara his bib to wear to the finish line. I think an explanation is required, either from Sara, Francisco, Philip or race officials. It appears as though they are bandits. Everyone else paid a good amount to run this event.

marshallini wrote:

https://media.giphy.com/media/SvpXZbTK9HrbNeD2Bz/source.gif

I suspect this is FM in a black hoodie, black shorts, red shoes at the start of the Pasadena Half, it fits the timings.

At what time on the video is that? Can you post any still images pulled from it, it is a little hard to see in that jumpy gif...

Or just ask Frank Meza why he passed his bib to Sara Tartof.

This could be the only legitimate result for Frank Meza and that seems more like it. Funny when you run on courses that are hard to cheat on.

Boston Marathon, 2008

2008 10468 Meza, Frank M.D. 59 M

South Pasadena CA USA

Official Time Net Time

4:25:58 4:25:58

and the irony with this whole thing is that if his Boston race was 10 years later, Frank's time in Santa Clarita may have been flagged by Derek Murphy for further review based on his BQ time there:

Santa Clarita Marathon

11/4/07 Meza, Frank (M58) 3:28:01 39 37 / 1 M55-59 3:27:23 South Pasadena, CA, USA AG 2:52:27 BQ

Their is a cap that surely matches Frank Meza's cap under the hood. This explains why Frank crosses the start line in sweats. It keeps him warm...and incognito...and makes going off course not look so odd...

brooklyn123 wrote:

This could be the only legitimate result for Frank Meza and that seems more like it. Funny when you run on courses that are hard to cheat on.

Boston Marathon, 2008

2008 10468 Meza, Frank M.D. 59 M

South Pasadena CA USA

Official Time Net Time

4:25:58 4:25:58

and the irony with this whole thing is that if his Boston race was 10 years later, Frank's time in Santa Clarita may have been flagged by Derek Murphy for further review based on his BQ time there:

Santa Clarita Marathon

11/4/07 Meza, Frank (M58) 3:28:01 39 37 / 1 M55-59 3:27:23 South Pasadena, CA, USA AG 2:52:27 BQ

I wonder if there was proof of cheating at Santa Clarita, if Boston would then strike his 2008 Boston result from the books?

It looks like there were no chip mats at all at SC 2007.

https://www.runraceresults.com/Secure/RaceResults.cfm?ID=RCEW2007

It doesn't surprise me, since that is a tiny event.

jesseriley wrote:

Says Roderick of the 200-word post...

Leave dude. Take your false marathon times with you and leave. If you think there's a troll versus this idiot, you're wrong Roderick, it's more than one person who has tired of a 50 plus year olds games. I'm 23 and I know better. Leave dude!

concerned citizen wrote:

What did the police do? Was he convicted?

The threats were on Twitter, I saw them at the time, I think the problem is jurisdiction, given that he escaped prosecution for punching a woman it stretches credulity that he would have received anything for the tweets.

triathleteguru wrote:

https://imgur.com/9AO384R

That first 5.5 mile split at 6:12 pace for a 58 year old is pretty impressive! Age graded score of 75% for that segment... Now it is possible he went out too fast, but the rest of his splits are pretty even.

Correction, age graded score of 83% for that first split! I would be curious to see other results of his from that time frame, see if he ran anything shorter like a 5k at 6:12 per mile pace...