Anyone know if she's run another marathon lately?
Anyone know if she's run another marathon lately?
It'll be interesting to see if she does indeed race again. Time to start using an alias, perhaps?
She is guilty. The evidence is there. Fess up, honey.
Good work to everyone who dug up supporting evidence. Outing cheaters is fun.
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I first found out about Cristina Noble's disqualification from the Sarasota Marathon in a very sensationalized news story on a Detroit affiliate of NBC (WDIV) the Thursday after the race. It was presented in the promos to the news, was presented by the local news anchor, and not a lot of details were presented in the actual story that I can recall. I about fell off my chair when I heard Cristina was the subject. My first thoughts were that this was an excessively cruel thing to do to a non-professional athlete on a television newscast and, undoubtedly, Cristina must have been DQ'd for something inadvertent that was being blown out of proportion.
The first thing I did was write a note to Cristina saying I heard the news, I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation for it, and I'm really ticked at WDIV as they must not be telling the whole story. I could just feel the pain of this woman as she was being slandered on a major metropolitan news station in front of family, friends, and co-workers. Before I wrote a note to WDIV letting them know of my displeasure for their sensational reporting, I wanted Cristina's approval. If she just wanted things to just go away, I could accept that. I really wasn't asking her for explanations. I KNEW she couldn't have cut the course. Who does that sort of thing? It is just preposterous.
She e-mailed back telling me what she called the real story; which you all read. I bought it hook, line, and sinker. This note confirmed my suspicions! WDIV got the story wrong! I sent my note to WDIV, and then asked Cristina if she'd like me to share her story with the team. I would not have sent it out if she said no, but she said sure,,, so I did. Only, as I've now found out, Cristina's story was not true.
A reporter (that asked to remain anonymous) got a hold of what I wrote to the team. He expressed doubts with Cristina's story. I played devil's advocate to a number of things the reporter passed on as evidence. However, his ultimate conversation with the race director confirmed the evidence that had been gathered from various sources. Cristina, did, indeed, cut the course; knowingly and willingly.
I truly take no pleasure in writing this note and I carry no grudge towards Cristina. I wish her well and hope she is able to recover and move on with her life. It all must be very difficult for her right now and I do wish there was a way to have helped her out.
Fred Vanhala
President: Front Line Racing Team
*I'm sure that Fred wasn't too happy about being lied to.
Wow a cheater and a liar.. go figure.. Blaim it on IBS.. she should be asshamed of herself..
using a portajohn does not excuse you from 2 miles of the course.. What a sad story...
This lady needs to be banned from any races....
What a joke... having people stand behind her. Fess up to your mistake this should be on the national news..
I hope you crap your pants the next time.....
oh yeah for anyone thinking of letting this joke of a lady run.. Think about this.. She is gonna bad mouth your race afterward if you catch her!
Did she actually fess up?
givemeabreak wrote:
I first found out about Cristina Noble's disqualification from the Sarasota Marathon in a very sensationalized news story on a Detroit affiliate of NBC (WDIV) the Thursday after the race. It was presented in the promos to the news, was presented by the local news anchor, and not a lot of details were presented in the actual story that I can recall. I about fell off my chair when I heard Cristina was the subject. My first thoughts were that this was an excessively cruel thing to do to a non-professional athlete on a television newscast and, undoubtedly, Cristina must have been DQ'd for something inadvertent that was being blown out of proportion.
The first thing I did was write a note to Cristina saying I heard the news, I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation for it, and I'm really ticked at WDIV as they must not be telling the whole story. I could just feel the pain of this woman as she was being slandered on a major metropolitan news station in front of family, friends, and co-workers. Before I wrote a note to WDIV letting them know of my displeasure for their sensational reporting, I wanted Cristina's approval. If she just wanted things to just go away, I could accept that. I really wasn't asking her for explanations. I KNEW she couldn't have cut the course. Who does that sort of thing? It is just preposterous.
She e-mailed back telling me what she called the real story; which you all read. I bought it hook, line, and sinker. This note confirmed my suspicions! WDIV got the story wrong! I sent my note to WDIV, and then asked Cristina if she'd like me to share her story with the team. I would not have sent it out if she said no, but she said sure,,, so I did. Only, as I've now found out, Cristina's story was not true.
A reporter (that asked to remain anonymous) got a hold of what I wrote to the team. He expressed doubts with Cristina's story. I played devil's advocate to a number of things the reporter passed on as evidence. However, his ultimate conversation with the race director confirmed the evidence that had been gathered from various sources. Cristina, did, indeed, cut the course; knowingly and willingly.
I truly take no pleasure in writing this note and I carry no grudge towards Cristina. I wish her well and hope she is able to recover and move on with her life. It all must be very difficult for her right now and I do wish there was a way to have helped her out.
Fred Vanhala
President: Front Line Racing Team
*I'm sure that Fred wasn't too happy about being lied to.
Speaking of this marathon. A number of us had Garmins that registered 26.6-26.7 miles. Now I know why. A friend of mine consults for the race and the RD admitted that a side trip out and back section near the Van Wezel Theater was added for the sole purpose of making sure the HALF marathon was certified. They admitted the marathoners should have been turned around well before the half marathoners but said there was no way to do this in the dark so they just blew it off.
They could have just had the marathon start line 0.4 or 0.5 miles in front of the half marathon start line, and had a concurrent start - synchronizing watches is not rocket science. Then they could have used the same turnaround and both courses would have been accurate.
I can't believe the race officials could ask for like $90 for an entry fee to a race they were well aware was not accurately measured. F***ing crooks.
Long run wrote:
Without accusing anyone else of wrongdoing, I would say the other two results to which you refer also appear to be not legit.
Or, if you see many people missing times at one location a malfuntioning mat. 3 out of 25 are good indictions of that. Issues like that are why there are two set of mats at the finish.
After every marathon these days, people with Garmins are claiming the course is long. I don't know about your RD story, but it's not unusual at all for the Garmin to measure a bit long on a certified course.
sweathog wrote:
After every marathon these days, people with Garmins are claiming the course is long. I don't know about your RD story, but it's not unusual at all for the Garmin to measure a bit long on a certified course.
Sure, but a half-mile long is extreme, even over 26.2. And one of the guys who recorded that measurement helped design the course and ran all the tangents.
See also the comment from Gary Allen here:http://harlemrunner.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarasota-marathon-winner-pulls-katie.html
Gary Allen said...
I ran the race in question and saw Ms Noble twice during the event. I finished in 10th place overall. I am also the race director of the Mount Desert Island Marathon held in Maine. I passed Ms Noble at approx 15 miles and told her she was doing great. I passed her again around mile 21 but strangely she or for that matter nobody else had passed me in the miles in between so I thought it was unusual to see her again. Honestly I was working to hard to worry or really care. The truth of the matter is Ms Noble did not run the entire distance nor did she run extra. It would have been impossible for her to get in front of me without passing me except if she cut off part of the last out and back section. I'm not saying she intentally cheated but she may have been misdirected or gone off the course or had planned on 'calling it a day' by heading for the finish early and got caught up in spectators telling her she was leading and in was one of those spur of the moment poor life decisions, she finished. One thing is certain she did not run the entire race. I did not bring this up with race officals at the finish line but intended to drop them a note and report what I had observed. When I read in a local FL newspaper that Ms Noble had already been DQed I saw no need to add more insult to injury by adding my 2 cents
Thanks
Gary Allen
race director
Mount Desert Island Marathon
April 8, 2008 9:09 AM
The RD of that race is a joke - I can tell you first-hand. Epic laziness is correct.
famous cheater - in the news this year - flashback to 2002.....very sad for her family....
Is there anyway to remove my name from this thread? When you google my name (first 4 letters of last name are Cama), it is like the 1st result, and the link shows up as "another marathon cheating story". So people end up thinking that I am a cheater, and it has actually lost me a couple of job opportunities.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...please forward my concern to the appropriate forum moderator.
Do you really want to work for people who are that stupid?
Serious? wrote:
Do you really want to work for people who are that stupid?
In this economy, I'll take what I can get...wtf?
email wejo
hijhijhh wrote:
email wejo
who is wejo and what is his email address?
NM, I found it, thanks
5 year anniversary edition...
http://www.runmichigan.com/view.php?id=18744
This woman is a weirdo if nothing else. In one breath says she hasn't really been training, in the next claims to be training for an IM. And what marathoner talks of it being "early in the season" as if it's track and she runs the 1500?
And...
Seems like she would have been capable of that 3:10 and that she may have knowingly cheated on impulse but does not fall into the chronic pathological cheater category by any means. She has recently run well under 40:00 for 10K at age 40 and it would be hard to cheat on that short a coarse (on hopes) so she is not a complete joke like some of these idiots who split 2:00/1:10 oe what have you.