Frank Meza 2:53:10 at LA Marathon (70 years old) unofficial time (just finished)

First. I am not sharing my contact information. If you want to email the race, use the general email.

My contact is the one person who I believe does care. It’s not his decision.

As far as media. I never alert the media. When stuff truly goes viral, they hear about it and approach me or just run the stories. Usually takes a day or 2.

This story has been steady but never quite saw the viral levels of traffic. It made an impression with runners, but not in mainstream.

You do know that Roderick Powell posting on this thread is the FAKE one and the REAL Roderick Powell doesn't know anything about this, right?

Robert Young II wrote:

10/10 Rod

You little devil Rod. ? wrote:

Yes, he was being just a tad ingenuous, Rod just wants to be loved and didn't want to be seen as the bad guy, but he was playing devils advocate.

But we should thank him.

w/ respect to cheating in other races, looks like he cut the course in the 2018 Surf City Escape Triathlon (previously noted above) - he misses all of the running splits, other than the final mat, running a 41:46 10-k.

not to be out done, he also cut the bike course missing the fourth bike split. he completes the final 6.42 miles of the bike course in 2:56, or over 131 mph (that's got to be a world record, frank, why are you not claiming it).

at mile 18 on the bike, his split is 1:18:43, he misses the 24.2 mile split, but completes the 24.85 mile (40k) bike course in 1:21:39.

https://app.raceresults360.com/#/race/O85R0N/1/257

come clean frank, the gig is up, you're a cheat, no question about it.

This.

Meza should crush Al Howie’s Trans-Canada record next; all you need is a GPS nowadays.

it's only a matter of time wrote:

w/ respect to cheating in other races, looks like he cut the course in the 2018 Surf City Escape Triathlon (previously noted above) - he misses all of the running splits, other than the final mat, running a 41:46 10-k.

not to be out done, he also cut the bike course missing the fourth bike split. he completes the final 6.42 miles of the bike course in 2:56, or over 131 mph (that's got to be a world record, frank, why are you not claiming it).

at mile 18 on the bike, his split is 1:18:43, he misses the 24.2 mile split, but completes the 24.85 mile (40k) bike course in 1:21:39.

https://app.raceresults360.com/#/race/O85R0N/1/257

come clean frank, the gig is up, you're a cheat, no question about it.

Craziness....

deadesq wrote:

I do not believe that #14735 is involved in any of this as he appears in many course photos in many races, so please leave him alone.

But if you want to run that lead to ground, you will see that this is not the only time FM has crossed a finish line with his colleague.

But as a ligit runner and an assistant coaching colleague at school, he would have to have known Frank was cheating, wouldn't he? Yet he's more than happy to encourage him and have his photo taken with him, I would have told him to fook off.

Yet here you are perusing page 80 of the thread. I see.

Why does every other runner at the 2016 Los Angeles Rock 'n' Roll Half have a red curly thing on their shoe except Frank:

https://www.marathonfoto.com/Proofs?PIN=R5W122&lastName=MEZA

He is Doctor D-Tag, master of D-Tag manipulation. He either carries it in his hand, or puts it on a piece of string and lowers the string to the level of the mat.

Nothing suspicious about that at all!

Dr Frankenstein. wrote:

I don't know if this was previously pointed out, but one of these three doesn't look like a sub three hour marathon runner:

https://imgur.com/a/64rHntB

But which one?

Frank looks like a marathon runner put together by Dr Frankenstein.

What’s with all of the D Tags? I don’t think I’ve worn one more than twice in the last 6-7 years.

not sure if we've proven that he cheated in the 2017 santa clarita marathon, but, he did.

his time was 3:01:00, 6:54 pace, and his recorded splits were: 36:05 for 5.5 miles, 1:41:51 for 15.3 miles and 2:23:35 for 21.5 miles, and he crosses the starting mat 1:49 behind the clock time.

fortunately, there's video of the first mile, complements of KHTS Radio (see link below). the leader passes through the video w/ 12:28 remaining (the countdown on the right). if you watch for the next five plus minutes, frank doesn't pass through. considering his late start, he should have passed through with around 10:10 remaining on the video (the countdown on the right) (1:49 behind the leader, plus an extra 30 seconds as the leader ran the first 5.5 miles at 6:04 pace compared to fm's 6:34 pace). he shouldn't be too hard to identify (if he was really running), b/c he would be moving considerably faster than the other runners at this point, needing pass these runners who are running at 7-9+ minute pace to keep his 6:34 pace up.

doubler, you may already have this, but if not, here's another one for you. look forward to the next article.

https://www.facebook.com/khtsradio/videos/2017-santa-clarita-marathon-mile-1/1571964182868680/

https://www.runraceresults.com/Secure/RaceResults.cfm?ID=RCEW2017

At this point I'd be more impressed if someone could make a convincing case that he ran a single marathon in the last 10 years. Not a single one looks legitimate.

Challenge wrote:

At this point I'd be more impressed if someone could make a convincing case that he ran a single marathon in the last 10 years. Not a single one looks legitimate.

A worthwhile point. Perhaps we could start an index of all of his purported marathons with a short note summarizing the evidence of cheating for each one, updated as people find more information on each one. If it helps, include the page number(s) from this the thread with the evidence.

Good find. I actually viewed this and other Santa Clarita videos a 2 or 3 days ago after posting Santa Clarita results. They showed that Frank Meza started last or close to last. He eventually passes everyone but 2 runners. Easy to do when you drive or pedal past them. There were only 247 finishers. Everyone would be past the start line pretty fast. I did not know where this was or if there were breaks in the film. Now we can most likely watch 246 runners pass by this spot. Everyone but Frank Meza. I will count the runners in a bit. This is solid evidence. Frank always finishes high in this event. For years. He would have most likely finished second in 2018 if he had "ran" it. There were fires this year that impacted the attendance, maybe Frank missed because of that reason. I imagine he would have been sorry seeing that second place was over 3 hours. Frank was getting close to accidentally winning Santa Clarita. Now that would have been something. Being so fast that you beat the lead motorcycle.

I received an email today from Conqur Endurance Group encouraging me to sign up for next year's LA Marathon. I am on their email list since I have run the race many times over the last 30 years...as have dozens of members of my running club.

Here is the response I sent them:

Please do the right thing and remove Frank Meza from the results of every LA Marathon he has run. MarathonInvestigation.com has provided clear evidence that the man is a cheater.

I am a member of a large LA based running club. Dozens of our club members participate in the LA Marathon each year. We will never run it again and will spread the word to as many others as we can if Conqur Endurance Group fails to do the right thing regarding Meza's obvious cheating.

https://www.marathoninvestigation.com/2019/06/frank-meza-additional-evidence-la-marathon-course-cutting.html

Well, FM appears to have put in a 26:05 5K at the 2004 Big Sur Marathon/5K. That's 8:24/mile.

It appears the person I've been assuming is his son, Francisco, ran a 3:19 for the full marathon that year.

http://www.bigsurmarathon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2004.txt.pdf

Great find! That’s direct evidence. Not the usual overwhelming circumstantial.

Did you notify the race?