Runner’s World Editor’s Races Under Scrutiny

okay big guy. List all the shameful things you've done in the last 2 years and let us shame you

She went out of way to boast on her social media. She holds a WR in running in panda costume for marathon. She didn't do this quietly. This is a fallout of her choosing.

Oh man more lies.

Theres been an update from The Telegraph (paywall) where she has given a statement. She admits 'errors of judgement'. it seems that

The Landmarks course cutting was because she had to stop for a pee and then unintentionally rejoined the course at the wrong point.

The 3.18 in London does not create any issue with the event organisers as she wasn't even entered in it. So, logically, you can't 'cheat' in an event in which you arent entered. I'm curious as to how 2 days ago the 2023 London marathon when I checked it, showed her listed in results but with no data for the race. I'm curious as to why she was listed. she would I think have a GFA option even without needing to use the minor celeb card.

For anyone who wishes to check on Power of 10 all her other 2023 results in events pre and post the self supported 3.18, i think they are not what youd expect from a 3.18 marathon level, in being plenty slower. its possible that she didnt really try in any other races in 2023 (although that doesnt tally with her comments in the statement about wanting to be seen to be performing well) but decided London was the one day to try. she was faster all round in 2022.

The thumbs proved me to be correct.

The discrepancies were brought to light by Marathon Investigation, an American blog run by Derek Murphy, who claimed to have been tipped off by a source who raised concerns about "unethical" behaviour. In a lengthy statement to The Telegraph, Ms Carter said she had never sought an official race time as she was not in peak fitness. But she then ran quicker than expected and wanted to upload it to her Strava account: "This is when I made the mistake of trying to create a route manually based on my time." she said. "Soon after I realised this was foolish and removed it from my feed. I also feel it is important to admit that part of this was about my ego. Even in the amateur running world there is pressure to maintain form and times... My own desire to be seen to be doing well at a time when I was feeling weak and below par, resulted in a momentary lapse of judgment which I very much regret." Addressing the half marathon anomaly, she said she had "very unfortunately and embarrassingly had wet myself and wanted therefore to step off the course to try and sort myself out" which is "something that happens to many runners". "When I rejoined the race, it is possible that I did so at the wrong point on the course, though that was not my intention," she added, insisting that "I made some stupid mistakes in how I recorded my times on my personal Strava record" but that she "was in no way trying to deceive the organisers of either event about my times" . A spokesman for Runner’s World UK said: "We are aware of an online article regarding Kate Carter. At Runner’s World, we are committed to upholding the trust our audience and the running community has in our brand, and are investigating these claims internally."

Whatever. She gestured toward a mea culpa, but you’re not going to get the mea culpa you want.

Her name is in the media in connection with a cheating scandal, and most of her colleagues and the fellow runners who know her pretty well are going to be aware of this. She has chosen to address it in her way, and she’ll manage the effect on those relationships herself. I’m guessing she’s dealing with a lot of shame right now (even if she did bring it on herself), so I don’t know what else you want her to go through before you think justice is done.

She had the whole weekend to come up with most plausible lie/story. But the problem isn't the mere course cutting most cheaters featured on DD's website. Like it was with the Dashing Whippets gal, this went beyond that with making up Strava data. Either way, it's over. It will be interesting to see how RW handle this.

Why do they always double down with the lies. Her lame excuse is even worse! RunnersWorld needs to fire her. This woman has zero integrity.

did she pee on her bib? why was it moved and manipulated?

why lie about the watch dying?

why did she go missing from race photos?

Winthorpe53 and a few others have expressed feeling uncomfortable at seeing someone publicly shamed. I feel the same discomfort.

I'll only speak for myself.

I think she did something shameful. The sense of justice in me sincerely hopes that she will suffer consequences for her actions, actions entirely and premeditatedly her own.

But I reject the notion that I can't feel bad for her in her humiliation as a fellow flawed human being. It's an empathy thing, I guess. It's just my gut reaction to seeing her in this situation. Others' gut reactions range more toward the vengeance end of the spectrum. Ok, fine. We've all got different guts. But we share the same sense of justice, I think.

At a public execution, we're all there to see justice done, but some flock to the front row at the foot of the scaffold and others tend to look away.

Some don’t go to the public execution, and they believe vengeance is inimical to justice rather than an example of it.

She's a lib in a liberal profession, so she has far more wiggle room in the lying department than a normal person with the shame emotion.

It's conceivable she will "voluntarily resign" at some point, but she will never fully admit to her obvious lying.

The Jussie Smollett of the running community.

She's so full of it. She's using the 'wet myself' story as a lie that she hopes is embarrassing enough that people will think she's really admitted it all. As a woman, I am not remotely convinced that she'd wander off course due to that. She stepped off the course to cut and cheat.

Its plausible she wet herself, i've done that before, but leaving the course to sort yourself out doesnt make sense, what are you going to do? Change into new clothes you found on a washing line in someone's back garden? And entering the course at a different point? Its not believable that she did that accidentally. Probably she knew she was cutting the course but justified it to herself because she had lost time finding a bathroom.

Its like the shelby burrito thing, trying to make excuses and half truths doesnt work, people see through it. Should just be 100% honest and say what she said about the 'pressure to post a good time'.

And i'm yet to hear an explanation for folding the bib up like that. Or the watch dying. Or were they glossed over in the 'error of judgements' thing.

She should speak frankly, she should say "i lied". Not "i made an error of judgment". Shes trying to minimise what she did by using euphemisms that sound less harsh.

And apparently too subtle for you, too. In this case, the "public execution" is "public shaming." And I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the the people who are at the public execution. Your knee-jerking has hampered your reading comprehension.

Unclear on whether or not she cheated at Berlin 2016 but she did miss EVERY SINGLE TIMING MAT, STOPPED her watch at 33 KM and STILL took away a 3h 09m... details here