Because he's a regular dude who works hard to achieve his personal goals, does shoe reviews, discusses training, meets cool people within the running community, documents his running journey, and overall is a good dude. This might be hard for some of you to understand, but you don't need to be an elite runner to be a cool person who people want to follow. I'm sorry, but some of the professional runners are weird. Like does anyone actually want to listen to Galen Rupp multiple times a week? No offense to Galen, but Matt Choi is significantly more outgoing and extroverted.
You don't need to be elite to be worthy of following, but you do need to be honest. So far we haven't heard a reason for his bib muling.
What reasons are there? Most events I've seen do allow transfers up to a week or two before the event as things change and it allows others to run in sold out events.
Really, MOST events allow transfers? Which ones?
The Army Ten Miler is only major race I'm aware of that does. They allow bib transfers up to about 5 weeks from the race.
Great job by Marathon Investigations on this one. It seems to me like it’s a bad idea to document your entire race and all of the training leading up to it on social media if you’re going to wear someone else’s bib. But then again I’m not an Instagram influencer.
This is just weird. One thing to call out marathon course cutters, but who the hell cares that some rando bandited the race? Did this warrant an article?
You will meet the wrath of the nutjobs on here that think any infraction is a cardinal sin. They either are or will grow up to be the loser officials at high school meets going on power trips to DQ runners for uniform violations.
What reasons are there? Most events I've seen do allow transfers up to a week or two before the event as things change and it allows others to run in sold out events.
Really, MOST events allow transfers? Which ones?
The Army Ten Miler is only major race I'm aware of that does. They allow bib transfers up to about 5 weeks from the race.
Most events SHOULD allow transfers. Whether they do or not is another question.
Unless this guy was deliberately trying to falsely qualify a friend for Boston, this is a non-story. I have lost hundreds of dollars of marathon race entry fees after getting a severe sinus infection last year and a IT band injury this year and am fed up. His buddy probably wasn't able to run for some reason and gave him the bib to save him a couple hundred bucks. A victimless crime and definitely not worthy of a marathoninvestigation article. Just give me a break.
Someone falls down and is injured and they aren't insured and didn't sign a waiver because they didn't sign up. Then they sue the race because they are an idiot. That's one off the top of my head.
Someone falls down and is injured and they aren't insured and didn't sign a waiver because they didn't sign up. Then they sue the race because they are an idiot. That's one off the top of my head.
When has someone sued for this?
If you have not been involved with organizing events/races then you wouldn't know. I have, and we had a lawyer we consulted with on several occasions for similar situations.
People followed him for lots of reasons; I really liked the guy's energy and his joy in running. I can get tips and programs from other places, but I like to keep in touch with the joy I get from running. It just leaves a sour taste to know he's a rule-breaker. Maybe he needed money for shirts though.
Not a huge deal in the scheme of things, but integrity does matter to a lot of people.
I was working a local 5K, some guy who looked to be in his 40's came up as 1st place in the women's 20-29.
I was reading the results- the woman's name and her bib number was in the results.
I saw this guy wearing that number. The race director called him over and asked him what was up. He played dumb for a while, even told them that I (as in me the one writing this) gave him that number at registration.
Nope, finally he "remembered" in an aha moment that she couldn't make it to the race so she gave him her bib (which she picked up the night before). He didn't think it would matter.
OK, maybe of it was another male in the same age group.
Someone falls down and is injured and they aren't insured and didn't sign a waiver because they didn't sign up. Then they sue the race because they are an idiot. That's one off the top of my head.
When has someone sued for this?
Ask an attorney, I am not one. People break into other people's houses and get hurt and then have a lawsuit against the homeowner. People spill coffee on themselves and get a lawyer. People accidently glue their hair to their head and have a lawsuit against the manufacturer because it doesn't say not to on the bottle. Let's not pretend this couldn't happen.
Ask an attorney, I am not one. People break into other people's houses and get hurt and then have a lawsuit against the homeowner. People spill coffee on themselves and get a lawyer. People accidently glue their hair to their head and have a lawsuit against the manufacturer because it doesn't say not to on the bottle. Let's not pretend this couldn't happen.
There is no excuse ever for running in someone else's bib. If a race doesn't allow transfers it doesn't allow transfers and you agree to that when you sign up. If that means later you can't run it you're just out the money.
If you have not been involved with organizing events/races then you wouldn't know. I have, and we had a lawyer we consulted with on several occasions for similar situations.
Ask an attorney, I am not one. People break into other people's houses and get hurt and then have a lawsuit against the homeowner. People spill coffee on themselves and get a lawyer. People accidently glue their hair to their head and have a lawsuit against the manufacturer because it doesn't say not to on the bottle. Let's not pretend this couldn't happen.
So, you're all bluster.
I'm not sure what that even means but these events carry insurance for a reason, not for fun.
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