Page 36 also has evidence of him cheating LAM 2017. He’s way ahead of the pack around 5.8 mile mark. The pack blows by him at the 6 mile mark. By the 6.2 mile timing mat he’s given up 50 seconds to runners he ran was once ahead of around mile 6.
Page 36 also has evidence of him cheating LAM 2017. He’s way ahead of the pack around 5.8 mile mark. The pack blows by him at the 6 mile mark. By the 6.2 mile timing mat he’s given up 50 seconds to runners he ran was once ahead of around mile 6.
it's only a matter of time wrote:
just another nail in the coffin... i'm not sure if we definitively proved that fm cheated in the pasadena half in 2019, so here we go. photos and splits don't lie.
checkout the sequence of photos in the below link, which, based on the distance between runners and other factors appears to be during the later portion of the race.
https://freephotos.finisherpix.com/findnear/100457/1005009616as you can see, fm is pictured in front of runner 1186 (1:25:32 - clock time) and 6380 (clock time of 1:25:34). fm's clock time is 1:27:37, and his 5K, 10K and 15K splits are considerably slower than those splits for both runner 1186 and runner 6380 (see below).
fm: 5K (clock time): 21:48
10K (clock time): 41:55
15K (clock time): 1:03:04
1186: 5K (clock time): 19:58
10K (clock time): 39:15
15K (clock time): 1:00:24
6380: 5K (clock time): 19:47
10K (clock time): 39:21
15K (clock time): 1:00:21
there's no reasonable/plausible/believable explanation as to why fm is ahead of these runners on the course at any point, let alone towards the finish, other than, that fm cut the course.
based on where the photos are taken and the splits, it's clear that fm cut the course, got in front of runners 1186 and 6380 only to be passed by those two runners (likely in the final mile or so as he rolled in at 8:20 pace).
derek, what more do you need? i've donated to your site and I (along with others) have done the leg work to provide sufficient evidence that fm cheated in numerous races (e.g., the la marathon 2019, 2018, 2015, the 2019 sprouts phoenix marathon , 2019 pasadena half, the 2018 la half marathon, numerous long beach marathons, etc., etc., etc.).
fm, come clean before derek exposes you for the cheat you are.
Nice work. I'll add to that, that the guy in the photo series right after them is #8065 (stocky guy in blue singlet). He had a clock finish time of 1:25:48 but his race involved starting relatively slowly and getting progressively faster. His splits were :
5k (clock time): 21:36
10k (clock time) 42:01
15k (clock time) 1:02:22
The point being, if you compare his splits with the runners you mentioned, 1186 and 6380, the blue guy was nearly 2 minutes behind them at 5k and didn't start closing the gap until after 15k. So the only time he could have been close to those guys was the start and near the end. So these photos have to be either near the start or near the end. The photos clearly aren't at the start, so that is just further proof that the photos were taken near the end of the race. So for those runners coming through in that order to make sense, Meza would have had to have made up roughly 3 minutes on them between 15k and the finish (i.e. less than 4 miles), only to then lose 2 minutes of it back. This would be possible if he ran 15k to 20k at about 5:30 pace, got photographed, then slowed to 10-minute mile pace for the last 1k or so. There just aren't any plausible scenarios for an old man to be able to do that.
Runner #1234
5K Clock time 21:37
10K Clock time 42:02
15K Clock time 1:01:50
FINISH Clock time 1:27:35
Entering the stadium:
https://d31i1r7ph3a4jj.cloudfront.net/100457/500/100457-100142-1005059418.jpg
Run this photo of #8189 through an online EXIF viewer. It was taken at 8:29:49.
https://d31i1r7ph3a4jj.cloudfront.net/100457/500/100457-100142-1005009617.jpg
Run this other photo of #1234 through an online EXIF viewer. It was taken at 8:31:57.
https://d31i1r7ph3a4jj.cloudfront.net/100457/500/100457-100142-1005009693.jpg
These photos taken after the 15K mark late in the race. Race started at 7:0x (late start)
Consider that 1234 crosses 15K mat at clock time 1:02:47 and 8189 crosses 15K at 1:03:04.
Placement on course:
15k mat photo taken in street entering stadium finish (yards later)
1234 8189 8189 8189 (way behind)
8189 1234 1234 (just behind) 1234
Avocado's Number wrote:
But not entirely under the radar. Note that the web site of the Association of Road Racing Statisticians (which has not been updated since Ken Young's death) included a couple of Frank's low-threes in its list of all-time fastest marathons in the 65-69 age group, putting him in some great company:
https://www.arrs.run/Veterans/VR6_Mara.htm
Dr Frank's times will look even more impressive once the 70-74 rankings are updated:
https://www.arrs.run/Veterans/VR7_Mara.htmnicely done. can’t wait to see this body of work in a publication. “coach of storied track and field and cross country program exposed as a cheat”
but wait there's more wrote:
Runner #1234
5K Clock time 21:37
10K Clock time 42:02
15K Clock time 1:01:50
FINISH Clock time 1:27:35
Entering the stadium:
https://d31i1r7ph3a4jj.cloudfront.net/100457/500/100457-100142-1005059418.jpg
This guy would struggle to run a legit 3:50.
FYI, Gene Dykes really did contribute on this thread. Separately, he let me know that single age world records ended a year or two ago. He spoke with them, even voluteering to keep it going by doing the updates and work himself, but they never got back to him. So, I think that is why their are no more updates. As in Bernard Lagats' destroying of the single age records in all distances for 40 plus.
it’s only a matter of time wrote:
nicely done. can’t wait to see this body of work in a publication. “coach of storied track and field and cross country program exposed as a cheat”
And lets hope they include The Three Bandito Doctors who scammed the Pasadena charity half in cahoots with Dr Frank Meza by running unregistered.
Also, makes you wonder if they were in cahoots with Dr Frank in his marathon scams.
Roderick Powell wrote:
Phillip Bland Francisco Meza Frank Meza and Sara Tartof
FYI Francisco Meza's times in the marathon have improved massively the past couple years. (down to 3:09:10 at LAM) https://www.athlinks.com/search/unclaimed/?term=francisco%20meza
Roderick Powell wrote:
FYI, Gene Dykes really did contribute on this thread. Separately, he let me know that single age world records ended a year or two ago. He spoke with them, even voluteering to keep it going by doing the updates and work himself, but they never got back to him. So, I think that is why their are no more updates.
ARRS is no longer providing updates because Ken Young was -- incredibly -- doing all of that stuff by himself, by hand, for all of those years, right up until his death early last year. I would think that IAAF has something similar, though I would probably trust Ken's statistics over the IAAF's, at least in these areas.
Roderick Powell wrote:
FYI Francisco Meza's times in the marathon have improved massively the past couple years. (down to 3:09:10 at LAM)
Rob old son, you're hedging again, what are you implying?
Is there a difference between an athlete taking EPO or steroids to get better times and one who, for example, drastically shortens the course for faster results? No, there is no difference. It is fraud. And while in one case the results are canceled and even a life-long ban imposed, that should be done in the other case as well.
Rob has sold out to FM, or he IS him. Troll us, baby, and backatcha!
Roderick as “reasonable” troll: wait, hold on now, let’s don’t rush to judgment...
Rod as trump troll: you guys will pay for slandering FM...
Rod as kellyanne troll: let me distract you with bs here, bs there...
Etc, etc....
jesseriley wrote:
Roderick as “reasonable” troll: wait, hold on now, let’s don’t rush to judgment...
Rod as trump troll: you guys will pay for slandering FM...
Rod as kellyanne troll: let me distract you with bs here, bs there...
Etc, etc....
Jesse ... it’s way past your bedtime.
Someone posted a while back that these photos demonstrating that Meza was running a lot slower than people he is photographed with were taken in the last mile of the Pasadena Half as runners make a right turn to the stadium.
Golgi Body wrote:
it's only a matter of time wrote:
just another nail in the coffin... i'm not sure if we definitively proved that fm cheated in the pasadena half in 2019, so here we go. photos and splits don't lie.
checkout the sequence of photos in the below link, which, based on the distance between runners and other factors appears to be during the later portion of the race.
https://freephotos.finisherpix.com/findnear/100457/1005009616as you can see, fm is pictured in front of runner 1186 (1:25:32 - clock time) and 6380 (clock time of 1:25:34). fm's clock time is 1:27:37, and his 5K, 10K and 15K splits are considerably slower than those splits for both runner 1186 and runner 6380 (see below).
fm: 5K (clock time): 21:48
10K (clock time): 41:55
15K (clock time): 1:03:04
1186: 5K (clock time): 19:58
10K (clock time): 39:15
15K (clock time): 1:00:24
6380: 5K (clock time): 19:47
10K (clock time): 39:21
15K (clock time): 1:00:21
there's no reasonable/plausible/believable explanation as to why fm is ahead of these runners on the course at any point, let alone towards the finish, other than, that fm cut the course.
based on where the photos are taken and the splits, it's clear that fm cut the course, got in front of runners 1186 and 6380 only to be passed by those two runners (likely in the final mile or so as he rolled in at 8:20 pace).
derek, what more do you need? i've donated to your site and I (along with others) have done the leg work to provide sufficient evidence that fm cheated in numerous races (e.g., the la marathon 2019, 2018, 2015, the 2019 sprouts phoenix marathon , 2019 pasadena half, the 2018 la half marathon, numerous long beach marathons, etc., etc., etc.).
fm, come clean before derek exposes you for the cheat you are.
Nice work. I'll add to that, that the guy in the photo series right after them is #8065 (stocky guy in blue singlet). He had a clock finish time of 1:25:48 but his race involved starting relatively slowly and getting progressively faster. His splits were :
5k (clock time): 21:36
10k (clock time) 42:01
15k (clock time) 1:02:22
The point being, if you compare his splits with the runners you mentioned, 1186 and 6380, the blue guy was nearly 2 minutes behind them at 5k and didn't start closing the gap until after 15k. So the only time he could have been close to those guys was the start and near the end. So these photos have to be either near the start or near the end. The photos clearly aren't at the start, so that is just further proof that the photos were taken near the end of the race. So for those runners coming through in that order to make sense, Meza would have had to have made up roughly 3 minutes on them between 15k and the finish (i.e. less than 4 miles), only to then lose 2 minutes of it back. This would be possible if he ran 15k to 20k at about 5:30 pace, got photographed, then slowed to 10-minute mile pace for the last 1k or so. There just aren't any plausible scenarios for an old man to be able to do that.
jesseriley wrote:
Roderick as “reasonable” troll: wait, hold on now, let’s don’t rush to judgment...
Rod as trump troll: you guys will pay for slandering FM...
Rod as kellyanne troll: let me distract you with bs here, bs there...
Etc, etc....
And now we've got Rod as Rob.
FFS, just say what you mean. wrote:
Roderick Powell wrote:
FYI Francisco Meza's times in the marathon have improved massively the past couple years. (down to 3:09:10 at LAM)
Rob old son, you're hedging again, what are you implying?
His employer probably has a morals clause, if they find out, it could cost him.
Absolutely a factor in many of these cases. FM wants to keep working & have status because of his work, while also running great times.
