Marlon Bascombe Coach of Lean.Strong.Fast Suspected of Cheating for BQ

This seems to be the pattern.

"A":

Job dealing with people. Individual clients. Self-employed.

"B"

Social media savvy user to self promote.

"C"

Participates in charity fundraising and makes altruism known through social media.

"D"

Self congratulates on social media for athletic participation and "achievements". Derives self-esteem from jogging achievements.

"E"

Targets Boston Marathon as race to participate in as qualified runner to self promote pinnacle of achievements

"F"

Struggles to qualify. Can't let go of dream or postpone it to achieve through natural progression.

"G"

Misses timing mats and/or photos at qualifying race for Boston but achieves personal best to qualify.

"H"

Runs Boston dramatically slower than qualifier time.

"I"

Self congratulates on social media on Boston achievement. Includes false humility as to other runners and notes the enormity of their achievement.

"J"

Brings themselves to attention of someone with a vendetta or just curious as to their times.

"K"

Questions asked. Accusations and innuendo posed. Speculation and further inquiry by sophisticated runners.

"L"

All hell breaks loose

"M"

Wait until the storm passes and the next person comes along.

An idea wrote:

Here's an idea.

What if Derek partnered with Athlinks and obtained the names of all that earn entry into Boston. In the interim, he can flag those that run far slower than their BQ since the time of their qualifier and try to prevent these people from running Boston in the first place? Sure some won't get caught until after the fact, and many won't always run as good as their BQ but the obvious cheats that have no race results that show that ability and miss Rossi mats will always be detectable.

Lots of possibilities there.

I have data going back 2 years for all marathons. And yes, the plan is to use the same logic to prevent runners from entering Boston in the first place.

Thank you Doubler for your work. It is amazing that social media savvy people would "qualify" with such ridiculous marathon splits as those shown on your blog.

Keep up the good work, Doubler. Anyone who doesn't like it can produce evidence instead of baseless ad hominem and diversion.

Mr. T. wrote:

lawyers guns and money wrote:

Yes. All he's done is show the official results of an official race. Can Bryce Harper sue a website for doing analytics on his batting stats?

He's doing way more than than. He's doing way more than offering his opinion.

Doling more than offering my opinion? Like what exactly. And, in this article, I didn't even offer my opinion. I just stated the facts - you could probably easily infer where I stand on it..but I didn't actually offer my opinion.

I would say your doing less not more than offering an opinion, for the most part you just disclose the facts. In my legal opinion (I'm not a lawyer, just read Popehat) you can go even further and still be on pretty solid legal footing.

Mr. T. wrote:

And agan, who appointed Derek as the watchdog or consumer affairs for all the running coaches out there.

No one, what makes you think they did?

This is how it works dumbo, you start a personal blog and people chose to go there to have a look or not go there, sometimes people post links to the blog on other blogs and websites. Now, what don't you understand about that?

Go Fck yourself. I know no one who likes you dickhead.

bravo to whoever is catching these cheats. I'm behind you 100%.

Derek has been busy making a lot of aliases tonight

Doubler Support Club wrote:

Keep up the good work, Doubler. Anyone who doesn't like it can produce evidence instead of baseless ad hominem and diversion.

doubler wrote:

Mr. T. wrote:

He's doing way more than than. He's doing way more than offering his opinion.

Doling more than offering my opinion? Like what exactly. And, in this article, I didn't even offer my opinion. I just stated the facts - you could probably easily infer where I stand on it..but I didn't actually offer my opinion.

What is the site's email????

I'm sure he has mostly good intentions, to inspire people to be fit and have fun; but the way he goes about it is not right. Unfortunately, people lie and deceive all the time for profit/more credibility (although undeserved). Why should he be an infamous poster child, yet many business people get away with the same lack of ethics? What gets me with this public shaming is that the ones doing the shaming are usually no better themselves, and have a litany of flaws/egregious mistakes that won't be outed. Yet they're okay with harping/speculating on others' alleged bad choices and mistakes.

Mr. T. wrote:

What is the site's email????

You really are a dumbo aren't you. (That was a question by the way.)

SmartRunnr wrote:

This guy Doubler is obviously a troll. At some point he even suspected Mike Rossi, although Mike didn\'t miss any mat whatsoever in his BQ mary, occurred in several photos including a selfie, and thankfully got cleared later. Even USATF couldn\'t find a reason to disqualify Mike.

Same old LieRunnr, same old shtick.

Bert Yasssso wrote

Less people will cheat if they know the consequences are far worse than the reward.

Turn the pressure up on these cheats.

i concur.

that is why i agree with ghe people calling for all the cheats derrick has found to be exposed. it doesn't do any good to just out one or two. they all need to be named.

Hi Expert. Still watching Kip and Mike? Many new exciting developments, right?

Life is good.

SmartRunnr wrote:

Hi Expert. Still watching Kip and Mike? Many new exciting developments, right?

Life is good.

At least I don't spend my time making up untrue crap all day.

Fhjghjgg wrote:

Derek has been busy making a lot of aliases tonight

Hey look, Doubler attacked without evidence. News at 11!

ExpertKipWatcher wrote:

SmartRunnr wrote:

Hi Expert. Still watching Kip and Mike? Many new exciting developments, right?

Life is good.

At least I don't spend my time making up untrue crap all day.

I see the Rossi weirdos are still out in full force. But, Kip? Seriously, dude?