A made up race is freaky, even by Kip Litton standards. Dude needs an intervention.
A made up race is freaky, even by Kip Litton standards. Dude needs an intervention.
I've just written the local Jackson, WY newspaper and asked a source if there was a West WY Marathon held in Jackson on July 3, 2010 and, if so, what could he tell me about it.
IP addresses:
worldrecordrun.com : 74.208.61.204
pinehills5krace.com : 74.208.61.204
sandyspringshalfmarathon.com : 74.208.61.204
westwyomingmarathon.com : 74.208.61.204
reverse lookup on that IP yields:
5questionswith.com
accesstravelandvacation.com
aerisdental.com
allinexotics.com
allstarsportsbar.net
artbybarbarabrock.com
atlascarpetclean.com
banueloz.com
becksautomotive.com
beyondcoolcatering.com
beyondcoolicecream.com
blackdogopera.com
blackrussianstudio.com
broughammedia.com
captaincotys.com
catweb.com
cellmobilety.com
cityclubtower.com
cooljive.com
countycardworks.com
countystreetads.com
davescountryoven.com
davidspizzacatering.com
dcadvocate.net
deltabetachi.com
dixiejobs.dcadvocate.net
dreamstarproductioninc.com
drouare.com
eclubvalues.com
eriksdrivingschool.com
ewprivatemillionaire.com
feedafrica.net
foreclosures-banks.com
fortunebuffetonline.com
freeindeedbooksandgifts.com
gallery.dcadvocate.net
gbchinawokbuffet.com
getinthehut.com
greatlakesfenton.com
guruoverseas.com
hbgunited.com
inhomemedical-mobility.com
invest-personal.com
jewelofgrandblanc.com
kiplittondds.com
lansingcityclub.com
latinarestaurant.com
marcthewineguy.com
michaleensgardencenter.com
michaleensweddings.com
mustangdiner.com
myglobaltech.net
mylegacyrxcard.com
newfoundventures.com
newventurewebs.com
newyorkmarriagehelp.com
nutelinc.com
nvv1.com
nvvending.com
nykidsprotectionplan.com
paulsconeyisland.com
powersdiner.com
premiumoutdoors.com
pricelesstelecom.ca
pricelesstelecom.com
pricelesstelecom.org
products4exercise.com
realhbg.com
redpepperonline.com
robertsfamilydining.com
royalwindowsolution.com
samsitalianrestaurant.com
sharkyssport.com
smokeysflorida.com
sophiaskitchengrandblanc.com
strasserlawfirm.com
supremedepot.com
tastyclick.com
theoriginalroccos.com
thewesterlygroup.com
thewesterlygroup.net
tlpventures.com
ub-tan.com
vendingvalues.com
visitmichaelskitchen.com
wccandcatering.com
wedumb.com
wedumb.net
westchesterdivorceblog.com
westerlytrading.com
westerlytrading.net
westerlytradinggroup.net
westerlyyachting.com
westerlyyachting.net
westwyomingmarathon.com
www.westchesterdivorceblog.com
I don't see any other running-related sites but...
kiplittondds.com
seems interesting.
I just learned that Kip has teamed up with a reporter and will have his future races monitor by an independent person. If he runs a 2:50 we'll have to cut him some slack. More realistically we need to start a prediction thread to see who comes closest to his actual time.
I'll go with 2:59:59.
Go!!
Appreciate the research, but this road was already covered last night. Go to the previous page and read the first two posts by 'Very disappointed'.
who will the independent person be? can letsrun follow the independent person? we know how independent/phony kips people can be
ouch1000 wrote:
I sent an e-mail (read below from bottom up) to a person named Richard Rodriguez, who was identified in July on as the race director for the West Wyoming Marathon on its web site.
If you want to have more fun, write to either the 'Sandy Springs Half Marathon' director, 'Kellie Smith' -
kellievsmith@live.comor
the 'Pine Hills 5K' director, 'Jim Garcia' -
OrlandoRunning@hotmail.comThe latter name shows up in the Google search details and the cached page for the Pine Hills 5K.
Another bizarre observation: the Google result for the Pine Hills 5K has a header which says "Pine Hills 5K Marathon". Were made-up results for yet another 2:5x:xx marathon intended as well?
Very disappointed wrote:
Ok, for full disclosure, I looked up up "1&1" web hosting, and they are one of the larger hosters. Still very suspicious. It seems every rock we look under turns up something new. Not many dead-ends in this case.
Kip's dental office (kiplittondds.com) is hosted by the same place.
Yeah "1&1" is just a host company. But the whois records for these sites do show a lot of activity on the same dates. For example they show worldrecordrun.com and westwyomingmarathon.com were both created 5/6/2010. And they show worldrecordrun.com, westwyomingmarathon.com, pinehills5krace.com, and sandyspringshalfmarathon.com were all "last changed" on 12/24/2010. Honestly I don't know the ins & outs of domain name records - I just typed in the names at one of the many whois sites - but to me it is weird.
road rashed wrote:
who will the independent person be? can letsrun follow the independent person? we know how independent/phony kips people can be
It'll probably be someone like Rich Rodriguez from Jackson, Wy, who "audits" Slippy Litton.
This is amazing stuff. Does anyone know anyone at Marathon Guide so that the faked races can be pulled and put safeguards in place to double check the results from any small race involving Kip Litton?
This story is becoming almost unbelievable, even more unlikely than kip shaving off 3 minutes from his 5k time at the age of 49. I am shocked that a dentist would go to this extent. Speechless.
I predict the next shocker in this tale is that kip's hottie wife leaves him for a letsrun 25 year old 2:35:00 guy.
Seriously though, a guy capable of this is obviously pathalogical and therr must be other similar behavior in the rest of his life.
Btw, i love his facebook comment about how he takes his daily runs "really really easy like 7:00 to 7:30 pace". Even that comment is total BS.
IP Man,
Could you be so kind as to explain to those of us who are not totally up on internet tech stuff the significance of the wwm.com etc websites having the same IP addresses - I interpret that as the WWM, pinehills website were created by the same person at the same computer/network site.
What is the sig of all those other website which include kl's dental site? Did he create all those web domains?
Getting back to the 'why:' Could someone or multiple people be trying to pull off a charity scam by raising money through a dean karnases-like stunt (running multiple races ...etc) with the money being ultimately funnelled somewhere where the donors did not intend - if you get my drift.
I mention this because there is not sufficient prize money even from snickers pulblicity to make it workth it. Other likely reason is sheer narcissism. We will likely never know, hypothetically speaking of course.
has his wife or dentistry been independently verified?
road rashed wrote:
has his wife or dentistry been independently verified?
Wonder if we'll find out he's actually a port-a-potty cleaner who's only ever dated his left and right hands.
From what I understand the monitor is not one of Litton's guys, but rather someone that has been critical of him on LR. I need a ringside seat for this one!
Kip travels to Florida for the weekend to run in a 5K with 29 runners? Guess he was waiting for things to cool off before claiming these results.
Race detective wrote:
More news, everyone. If you look up Kip Litton at athlinks.com, some recent unclaimed results appear:
Pine Hills 5k 2010 49 FL 12/04 17:42
Sandy Springs Half Marathon 2010 49 GA 11/20 1:20:44
Note that the ages are 49.
Let's investigate those two races.
Pine Hills 5k
Sat, Dec 4, 2010 Orlando, Florida, USA
Male Results
A G O Athlete M/F A Bib Final Pace Claim!
1 1 1 Adam Rivera M 19 - 16:51 05:25
1 2 2 John Grant M 21 - 17:38 05:40
1 3 3 Kip Litton M 49 - 17:42 05:41
1 4 4 jeff short M 31 - 17:51 05:44
1 5 5 David Larsen M 38 - 18:23 05:55
2 6 6 Tim White M 22 - 18:49 06:03
1 7 8 Phil Lambert M 41 - 19:48 06:22
2 8 9 Andrew Davis M 37 - 20:11 06:29
3 9 11 paul dixon M 36 - 20:55 06:43
4 10 12 Raul Ramirez M 38 - 21:18 06:51
5 11 14 Tad Lewis M 37 - 22:22 07:11
2 12 15 Keith Cooper M 44 - 22:55 07:22
3 13 16 Jason Luck M 20 - 23:33 07:34
1 14 17 Sergio Lopez M 51 - 24:08 07:46
1 15 19 Robert Lowe M 56 - 25:28 08:11
2 16 20 Mitch Black M 58 - 26:12 08:25
3 17 22 rick bowen M 43 - 26:52 08:38
1 18 23 Gary Wagner M 27 - 27:22 08:48
2 19 24 Sue List M 32 - 27:44 08:55
3 20 25 Heather List M 32 - 27:45 08:55
3 21 26 Don Reed M 58 - 28:24 09:08
4 22 27 Hector Heart M 59 - 29:01 09:20
2 23 30 Mike Gault M 45 - 32:43 10:31
1 24 34 Fred Spire M 63 - 35:32 11:26
2 25 35 Gary Orlish M 61 - 36:44 11:49
5 26 40 Steve Poke M 59 - 40:09 12:55
2 27 41 Ken Gross M 51 - 41:28 13:20
1) Also short names.
2) Also, as for the West Wyoming Marathon: no bib numbers
3) Sue List and Heather List are included in the male results.
4) There were 19 women runners for a total of 46 finishers. This race is listed as having taken place in Orlando. Anyone know of any 5K in a city as large as Orlando that would only have 46 finishers?
5) Click on the link for the official website,
http://www.pinehills5krace.com/Surprise, surprise! "Error 403 - Forbidden" reported.
6) Google "Pine Hills 5K" and Orlando - you get athlinks.com results, the error producing site, and an irrelevant hit.
How about the Sandy Springs Half Marathon?
Sat, Nov 20, 2010 Atlanta, Georgia
1) Short names.
2) No bib numbers.
3) 26 total finishers.
4) Official website? Wow - something appears! With an e-mail contact! And just a list of results. Nothing else.
5) Google listings? athlinks.com and the 'official' website only.
And did this major city marathon that had a whopping 26 'finishers' appear in a comprehensive listing of Georgia half-marathons for 2010-11? NO.
http://www.halfmarathons.net/race_calendar_georgia.htmlBy the way, the Atlanta Half Marathon was held on 11/25/10. How many finishers did it have? 8888!
When did the original letsrun forum on this topic come out? You figure out the connection!
I'm a newspaper reporter. Don't have time to do an exhaustive search, but I did do a public records search using databases on six of the "runners" -- I selected them randomly -- from the WWM and none of the six exist.
I'd be willing to make a wager that it'll be closer to
3:59:59
Wow, when it was just about cutting marathon courses and shaving some minutes off of his time there was nothing terribly unique about this story. Just another William Jurena/Chandra Bozelka story. Now it appears he has made up entire races. Wow, that is just a whole other level of crazy. Fascinating. Can't wait to see the conclusion of this.
Race detective wrote:
Another bizarre observation: the Google result for the Pine Hills 5K has a header which says "Pine Hills 5K Marathon". Were made-up results for yet another 2:5x:xx marathon intended as well?
Another detail: the Sandy Springs Half Marathon results says it was held at Hammond Park. Google maps show this park to be about 200 yards x 200 yards at most!
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=sandy+springs,+ga&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Sandy+Springs,+GA&gl=us&ei=6dUtTb7KE4SosAPilrWKBg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CB4Q8gEwAAMy goodness, Kip Litton appears to be a sociopath. Sane people simply do not make up entire races. And we all thought his cutting corners was bad!