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

It is on the Home Page of Yahoo. Unreal. He really brought a lot of embarrassment on himself. Like the poster told him months ago just come clean.

Same everything. wrote:

https://imgur.com/a/z9y92Ih

And what looks like a little black dot on the sock is the Nike swoosh as per the ones in his finish photos.

Roderick Powell wrote:

A google search of “Meza” brought up the usual pictures , including what entity, like LA Times, People. etc. ...included was Runner’s World about 45 minutes ago

Yep. Here's the uplifting story!

RW speaks? wrote:

Yep. Here's the uplifting story!

Don't get too carried away, recall that he can explain everything at a later date - for instance the bike photo was an urgent pee stop that needed assistance to get to the urinals faster.

Piss weak article from Runners World.

Hopefully there’s no “statute of limitations “ on DQ’s from running races...

He's there. wrote:

His accomplice is in the pic too.

Any chance that this is a post we shouldn’t be breezing past?

There are four people in that photo, right? The runner and Frank and a guy to the left and one obscured by the bike tire. Does “He’s there” know something?

We all seem sure that people who know him and know running knew he was a cheat. We know there are photos of him handing his clothes off to people along the course, near the end. We know he sometimes ran back onto the course to run in with friends. The accomplice theory remains alive.

This bicycle photo is an incredible find. An absolute gem. It establishes he sometimes used a bike but not that he always did.

What a find though. Yahtzee!

Fred Gwynne wrote:

It is on the Home Page of Yahoo. Unreal. He really brought a lot of embarrassment on himself. Like the poster told him months ago just come clean.

Wow! Yep, currently front and center main story on

The comments section is blowing up.

It was getting big time over the past 1.5 days but without a doubt it is officially big time.

"Newly Discovered Photos Show someone believed to beFrank Riding a Bike During His Sub 3 Hour 2014 San Francisco Marathon"

Derek let me fix it for you

"Newly Discovered Photos Show Dr. Frank Meza Riding a Bike During His Sub 3 Hour 2014 San Francisco Marathon"

ExpertKipWatcher wrote:

RW speaks? wrote:

Yep. Here's the uplifting story!

Don't get too carried away, recall that he can explain everything at a later date - for instance the bike photo was an urgent pee stop that needed assistance to get to the urinals faster.

At what point does obvious mental illness play into when the dogs are called off?

Ego could explain one or two or three of these. But scores of races over 10 years screams something is seriously wrong with this guy.

Same same. wrote:

Same everything. wrote:

https://imgur.com/a/z9y92Ih

And what looks like a little black dot on the sock is the Nike swoosh as per the ones in his finish photos.

When I first saw the photo, I thought there's no way to say it's Frank, but he's got the bright green socks, the shoes are completely consistent with the shoes in his official photos, the hat is consistent, the shirt is consistent with the one tied around his waist. That's Frank. Smoking gun.

Excellent article though! I love the way you kept it brief and let the photos shine.

Someone, anyone. wrote:

Zavalos, Diaz, Bland, Dominquez, WTF is it with these people?, are they dead set friggin idiots?, haven't they looked at marathon investigation or the photos on here?

Someone, anyone who knows them, FFS direct them to the last few dozen pages on this thread, they don't even have to read it, just scroll through and look at the photos.

Here's Zavalos' email. Get typing...

FYI, we do have two 71 year old mega stars...Jeannie Rice and Gene Dykes..true ambassadors of our sport...

Same same. wrote:

And what looks like a little black dot on the sock is the Nike swoosh as per the ones in his finish photos.

RossiCheated wrote:

Any chance that this is a post we shouldn’t be breezing past?

Yes, we should go past that at the same speed Frank was on the bike - why oh why are people so desperate for there to have been accomplices that random bystanders are automatically part of the story?

doubler wrote:

I woke up around 3:30, checked my phone and saw an email from Frank on a Bike? I added it to my article, and cut out some of the extraneous stuff. The photos are the story.

I am convinced it's Frank on the bike, but can anyone actually tell his sock colors from the photo. I don't see where any hi-res photos are publicly available.

I have had prior contact with SF race director. It's possible that I can get something of better quality.

If nothing else I want to get the guy that found the photo the coffee mug with the photo on it.

I said it earlier in this thread. I am reasonably close to this situation but don’t want to get involved. Check the 2017 SF photos. Your smoking gun is in there (yes, I know Frank did not officially run it).

2017 wrote:

doubler wrote:

I woke up around 3:30, checked my phone and saw an email from Frank on a Bike? I added it to my article, and cut out some of the extraneous stuff. The photos are the story.

I am convinced it's Frank on the bike, but can anyone actually tell his sock colors from the photo. I don't see where any hi-res photos are publicly available.

I have had prior contact with SF race director. It's possible that I can get something of better quality.

If nothing else I want to get the guy that found the photo the coffee mug with the photo on it.

I said it earlier in this thread. I am reasonably close to this situation but don’t want to get involved. Check the 2017 SF photos. Your smoking gun is in there (yes, I know Frank did not officially run it).

Is there are reason you can't just link to the photos you say are the smoking gun instead of telling others to sort through thousands of photos to find what you found?

For some good laughs read some off the almost 1,000 reactions to the FM story on yahoo..